Venues similar to Local Cups

Nas and Cem's 2019 boulangerie-bistro on 12047, proper viennoiserie, hand-made sandwiches and a Tuesday day off

Hacımemiş's mulberry-tree corner since 1963, the village's classical Turkish coffee bench, untouched by the specialty wave

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

A small, coffee-only room that fresh-roasts and means it

The Demirel family's handmade Alaçatı patisserie, a quiet bakery counter the village uses for birthdays it actually means

The Akbulut family's 2014 Alaçatı gelato counter, a Financial Times top-25 boutique, a hundred-and-fifty rotating flavours, made on site every morning

The village's actual modern-brunch answer: smoothie bowls and detox pours in a bohemian Çamlık garden, not a buffet line in disguise

The original sakızlı muhallebi house, the recipe the rest of the country has spent twenty years trying to copy

Istanbul's award-winning roaster, seasonally transplanted into a stone house

An Italian gelataio who fell for the Aegean and now churns the peninsula's most honest gelato off a Hacimemis corner

Stone terrace at the gate of Erythrai antique city, the Ildırı sunset bench with takımadalar in frame

A working ceramic atelier on Paşadayı square, pots thrown on-site and taught hands-on

Alaçatı's first gallery, where the village's painters and ceramicists have shown since 2005

The 1945 İnkılap Caddesi corner where damla sakızlı dondurma was invented, a Mersin family pastane now in its third generation

The 1994 Saturday market on Tokoğlu's edge, the peninsula's slow-food anchor and the village's true social square

The mastic park north of the village, the peninsula's only living gallery of Pistacia lentiscus and the Sakız Ağacım revival project's home

Nihal Hanım's garden in Saip village, forty house jams, mountain-foraged herbs, breakfast cooked by the village women

A breakfast garden among Ovacık's vines, own house wine, own jams, own menemen

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

An owner-poured bar where the cocktail list is rewritten, not reprinted