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

The village's oldest rakı-fish table, run by the same family since 1950

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

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

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

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

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

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

The chef-owner sources every olive and cheese herself, then turns the morning into a fixed-spread argument for slow village breakfast

The Sezginer family puts up a wholly organic morning under their own vines, pouring grape juice pressed from grapes you can reach up and pick

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

Oktay Durna's three-thousand-piece Anatolian glass collection, housed in a Hacımemiş stone room

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

A family-run raki-and-fish meyhane at the bazaar mouth where you bring your own bottle

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

The peninsula's serious specialty coffee bar, Guatemala, Colombia, Kenya, Ethiopia on rotation, a Hacımemiş regulars' room

The 1974 Uğur Mumcu counter where the Çeşme kumru is still pressed the way the family wrote it, tomato, sucuk, kaşar, no shortcuts

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