Venues similar to Varka Alaçatı

Wood-fire day fish and herb meze with your feet near the sand at the Çark Beach bay

Enes Kara's stone courtyard reading of Aegean cooking, equal parts rooted and rewritten

Two hundred Turkish bottles in a pomegranate garden behind a 150-year-old house, wine boutique and kitchen under the same roof

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

Three generations of Aegean mastic worked off one Ugur Mumcu counter since 1945, sakizli dondurma, kurabiye and jams from the source

Modernised ocakbaşı with a Nişantaşı pedigree, transplanted to the marina with mixologist-led cocktails and grilled meats by the water