Best Restaurants in İzmir

Aegean-Cretan seafood meyhane on the Pasaport waterfront since 1989

Kordon fish institution beneath İzmir Palas since 1981

Michelin Bib Gourmand Anatolian grill on Atatürk Caddesi

Tucked-away bistro on a quiet Alsancak side street

Bornova meyhane institution since 1966

İzmir's oldest living kokoreç master, charcoal since the 1960s

Chef-driven Italian on the ninth floor of the Swissôtel

Levantine-Italian dining in the Mistral tower

Kemeraltı's kelle söğüş master since 1975

İzmir's first two-star table, among Urla's vines

Osman Sezener's open-fire farm-to-table within an olive grove

A hand-built olive-and-pine winter garden on the forest edge of Bornova

Three generations of family balıkçı on the Özbek village harbour

Terroir-driven Aegean cooking and rooms in Kuşçular village

The Urla market lokanta locals queue for

Eski Foça's harbourside fish house since 1984

Stone-courtyard meyhane with fine-dining touches

Waterfront fresh-fish kitchen on the Foça promenade

Bib Gourmand Bosnian börek inside a 17th-century Kemeraltı han

İzmir's defining tradesmen's esnaf lokanta since the 1930s

İzmir's söğüş benchmark since 1975, by Hisar Mosque

The first meyhane of the Sığacık kale, Greek-taverna soul

Sığacık harbour's oldest fish house, serving since 1993

Warm family-run fish-and-meze house in the Sığacık kale

Farm-table artichoke kitchen in a Seferihisar village

The Bostanlı waterfront meyhane locals defend

Bostanlı's serious seafood table by the tram line

Bostanlı's special-occasion steakhouse

Garden-gate bistro with a real wine list

İzmir köfte institution since 1965

Convivial chalkboard Aegean cooking next to the vines

Aegean home cooking tucked inside a Kemeraltı han

Foça harbour fish house locals defend over the strip

Fish-market seafood at honest prices in Sığacık's castle village

New Urla cuisine from olive forest to table, in a stone Greek theatre

Urla town's Bib Gourmand meyhane in a courtyard stone house