Elegant in Bodrum

A hillside fine-dining room above the village, live music after sunset, world-cuisine card

Cennet Koyu sunset cocktail terrace, the bay's most decorated bar with Haute Grandeur cocktail-menu wins across three consecutive seasons.

The original Sait Yılmaz seafood room on Neyzen Tevfik; the Bodrum kitchen that built the Galataport and Yalıkavak branches

Susona's pool-side Italian-Japanese kitchen under Kaan Yıldırım, sashimi, hand-rolled pasta, golden-hour DJ sets

The Kumbahçe seafood room with a Michelin Green Star and one menu for the whole house each night

A bougainvillea-shaded hilltop terrace that has been the Gümüşlük sunset for two decades

Gümüşlük's defining seafood house, where Istanbul tables run two seatings on August nights

18-room Gölköy Bay seafront hotel and beach restaurant, Chef İsmail Ceylan's Mediterranean kitchen on a 150-year-old stone-house property.

No:81 Hotel's beach deck, a Türkbükü bay restaurant that turns into a proper night room

Mehmet Yalçınkaya's seafood room set inside the courtyard of the old Kocadon stone house

An intimate Türkbükü beachfront kitchen with a small chef-led menu that turns over with the season

Türkbükü's Armenian-Aegean table, family-run and quietly precise

Garden-style Aegean cooking in an old village house behind the marina