Places in Çeşme

Diyarbakır charcoal craft married to the Aegean, with daily homemade meze from the owner's wife

Founded 1953 by the Kadagan brothers from Yugoslavia, the peninsula's archetype of stew-pot Anatolian home cooking, still in family hands

Tomris Maravent's 2004 corner café, the steady Alaçatı pulse, eight tables that grew into the village living room