Restaurant in İzmir

Three generations of family balıkçı on the Özbek village harbour

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

Farm-table artichoke kitchen in a Seferihisar village

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

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

The Urla market lokanta locals queue for

Bostanlı's serious seafood table by the tram line

Waterfront fresh-fish kitchen on the Foça promenade

Kordon fish institution beneath İzmir Palas since 1981

Bostanlı's special-occasion steakhouse

Foça harbour fish house locals defend over the strip

Eski Foça's harbourside fish house since 1984

Bornova meyhane institution since 1966

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

İzmir's söğüş benchmark since 1975, by Hisar Mosque

The Bostanlı waterfront meyhane locals defend

Aegean home cooking tucked inside a Kemeraltı han

İzmir köfte institution since 1965

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

Stone-courtyard meyhane with fine-dining touches

Convivial chalkboard Aegean cooking next to the vines

Sığacık harbour's oldest fish house, serving since 1993

Kemeraltı's kelle söğüş master since 1975

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

Levantine-Italian dining in the Mistral tower

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

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

Aegean-Cretan seafood meyhane on the Pasaport waterfront since 1989

Chef-driven Italian on the ninth floor of the Swissôtel

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

Terroir-driven Aegean cooking and rooms in Kuşçular village

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

Garden-gate bistro with a real wine list

Tucked-away bistro on a quiet Alsancak side street

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

Michelin Bib Gourmand Anatolian grill on Atatürk Caddesi