Seafood in Çeşme

On the water's edge of antique Erythrai, three generations of family balıkçı in the peninsula's quiet north

Chef Can Aras's wood-fired seafood room, the most ambitious new arrival the stone village has had in a decade

Michelin Guide-listed family osteria a few streets from the castle, serving day-boat fish and meze without the marina markup

Chef Ahmet Horasan's lemon-tree courtyard, Gault & Millau Türkiye 2024 Best Seafood

Türkiye's first lobster restaurant, Tuğrul Erol's Çiftlikköy room since 1974 and Vedat Milor's consistent Aegean pick

The Viento courtyard where Alaçatı's stone-village finally has a Michelin-listed seafood room of record

Altuğ Tezer's chef's table on the Çark Plajı pier

Elevated Dalyanköy fish house with a serious meze bench

Çeşme's fish-and-meze institution since 1981

A seaside lobster house run by a host who has held the room for years

Since 1993, the fishing-harbour family room that defined Port Alaçatı before the marina arrived around it

Sertan's small seafood room on the Yıldızburnu cape, water-edge tables, sharp kitchen, prices that still make sense by Çeşme standards

Mordoğan iskele room facing the sea, the working-village fish counter that yacht trade hasn't reached

The Yılmaz family's Çiftlikköy seafront since 2009, the quietest Çeşme fish table looking across to Sakız