Best Restaurants in Bodrum

Serhat Doğramacı's farm-to-table tasting room, Türkiye's newest Michelin star and a Green Star for sustainability

Bib Gourmand 2026, Ümmühan Girgin's mandarin-garden meze house in the back lanes of Bitez

Bib Gourmand 2026, a chic all-day meze room on D-Marin Göcek with the yachts in the foreground and the Reşadiye mountains behind

The Cumhuriyet trattoria that has held the Michelin Bib Gourmand for Neapolitan pizza and seafood risotto since 2013

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

MICHELIN Young Chef Award 2026, Duru Akgül's restored olive-oil mill on the Reşadiye Peninsula

MICHELIN Guide modern kebab, the most ambitious kitchen in Bitez, kebab as fine-dining grammar.

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

Konacık's MICHELIN-recommended esnaf lokantası since 1999, the tray-line everyone from the marina mechanic to İstanbullu second-home owners works through.

Chef Ulaş Durmaz's North Aegean seafood room at Avantgarde Refined, MICHELIN Guide 2025 and Gault&Millau Modern Cuisine 2025.

Beachside daytime dining with dishes designed to share

Tolgar Mireli's veg-led Aegean kitchen dissolving into a Gümüşlük hillside garden

A family Slow Food winery and farm table over the vines in the Karaova valley

A candlelit garden dinner up in Müskebi, well off the marina strip

A Bitez garden meyhane, owner-run with a daily meze table under citrus trees

Chef Zişan Altınçaba's seasonal garden lokanta in the Dereköy hills

An open-kitchen garden table among the mandarin trees of Gümüşlük

The original Türkbükü beach hotel that defined Aegean restraint for two generations

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

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

The first table on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1962, still run by the family

A smartly run, design-led beach club tucked between Yalıkavak and Gümüşlük

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

The most controlled, design-led beach club operation on the Yalıkavak side

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

Bodrum's pre-Cumhuriyet-rush institution, on the Neyzen Tevfik harbour since 1979

A long-running fish house at the western Bodrum harbour, with a serious raki sofrası

The old D-Marin Bodrum members' room, open to non-members for lunch on the western harbour

Tilkicik Cove's original fish house, on its own jetty since 1993 and still family-run

Yalıkavak's original family fish kitchen, opened in the early 1980s and still on the same corner

The Knightsbridge izakaya's summer pier at the far end of Palmarina, robata and sashimi in the same register as London

Türkbükü's oldest fish house, on the iskele since 1997 and still in family hands

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

The Gümüşlük meze house's Türkbükü sister, on Liman Caddesi with thirty cold and hot starters

A long-running Türkbükü waterfront classic that runs serious seafood by night

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

A meyhane built into Sadun Boro's old Bodrum house, with kanun on the terrace and the castle in view

A four-decare mandarin orchard in old Bitez where a young couple set the Aegean breakfast bar

A second-generation Bitez breakfast house tucked into the citrus gardens behind the bay

The mother-and-son Aegean fish house that has held the Yahşi-Ortakent waterfront since the marina was built

The Akyarlar harbour fish house run by the same family since 1986, with Kos a sunset away across the strait

Torba's classic family fish house, on the Kilise bay since 1987 and open through the off-season

Osman Sezener's coastal Aegean cooking at The Bodrum EDITION

The peninsula's serious grill, dry-aged steak, kebabs and a wood-fire ocakbaşı that has held the Bib Gourmand three years running

A geography-of-Türkiye meze and kebab room under the mandarin trees, Bib Gourmand 2025-2026

A stone-house seafood room on Güvercinlik's quiet bay, Bib Gourmand 2026 and the reason to drive past Bodrum

An 18th-century-Ottoman meyhane on Cumhuriyet Caddesi with a terrace over the bay, Bib Gourmand 2026

Gündoğan's seaside fish house, run by Chef Ali Akbalık and the village's first reference for two decades

A Roman chef's intimate trattoria in Kumbahçe, pasta alla genovese and a roof terrace over Bodrum bay

Zuma's sibling brand at Mandarin Oriental, robatayaki, sushi and Aegean cliff views, returning May 2026

The Saint-Tropez and Paris Italian, now permanently at Mandarin Oriental Bodrum from summer 2026

The Yalıkavak marina's reference fish house, Aegean classics, ice-displayed catch, Michelin Guide listed

Gündoğan's village house breakfast since 1999, named for the wood-burning kuzine in the back garden

A fourteen-decare orchard kahvaltı house on the Göltürkbükü inland line, run on farm logic

A Yalıkavak hillside breakfast room run by a Kosovo-immigrant family, Rumeli register on an Aegean table

A classic Yalıkavak breakfast garden under mandarin trees, every table with its own woven shade

A third-generation Akyarlar fish house since 1978, on a wooded cape fifteen metres above the strait to Kos

Güvercinlik's quieter waterside fish house, on the same Sahilyolu address since 1985

Bülent and Nazmiye's mandarin-grove kahvaltı house above Gündoğan, the unexpanded village breakfast, on principle

An inland Yahşi farm-table breakfast, own-garden vegetables, cured house charcuterie, Sunday-morning ritual

Michelin-starred Italian by Alfredo Russo at Maxx Royal, homemade pasta and restraint, in the resort's most serious room

Wolfgang Puck's Aegean outpost, the smoked salmon pizza and California-Italian playbook, recalibrated for Bodrum

Paris's caviar institution opens its first-ever resort outpost on the Aegean, Russian-French repertoire, a tin and a spoon

Joey Ghazal's Dubai-born brasserie lands on a hilltop above Maxx Royal, raw bar, prime steak and a 360° view of the Aegean

Mandarin Oriental's Japanese-Peruvian room, sushi, robata and sake on the resort's main beach, run by the IOKI Istanbul team

The London-Vegas Cantonese house running its tenth global outpost on Cennet Bay

Paros's iconic Greek seafood house, transplanted to Caresse's private beach by Athenian chef Dimitrios Nikolis

The Marmara's hilltop terrace, Hakan Süve's Mediterranean kitchen, Michelin Guide listed, four İncili pearls, and the city's best castle view

Susona's Michelin Guide-listed dining room, Gürkan Tümsek's micro-local Aegean kitchen, zero-waste, vegetable-forward

Stefano Ciotti's Italian kitchen at The Bodrum EDITION since 2024

Mehmet Akdağ's Anatolian cooking and open-fire techniques

Maçakızı's intimate eighteen-cover fine-dining counterpoint, by Aret Sahakyan, Turkish classics rewritten as memory and terroir

Bodrum's only real Spanish house, Neco's San Sebastián tapas on a 300-year-old stone street

Çiğdem Seferoğlu's vegetable-led tasting room at the quiet Küdür Bay end of Yalıkavak

An İzmir kokoreç ustası that opened in 1974 and brought the trade to Yalıkavak in 2013, the peninsula's serious answer

Twenty-eight-year-old Yalıkavak beach village, capped capacity, bohemian-mature, the anti-marina antidote.

Tilkicik Bay aperitivo room, Mediterranean wood-deck format that opened 2022 and immediately found its register.

Yalıkavak all-day beach-to-cocktail arc, the accessible version of the chapter, without the marina markup.

METT Hotel beach club above Haremtan Cove, sundeck cabanas, grilled fish, occasional live-music nights.

Palmarina pontoon import of the New York / Saint-Tropez French-Mediterranean room, rosé and table-side theatre.

The quiet fifteen-room Türkbükü alternative, small cove, slow service, no DJ.

Modern-minimalist 52-room Türkbükü cove, quiet, food-forward, the not-Macakizi answer in the same bay.

Cennet Koyu institutional-luxury beach, cabanas, low noise, the Mandarin standard on a private bay.

All-day Gümüşlük operation, small hotel, kitchen-led seafood, a wine list the cove was missing.

1968 harbour fish house, the Gümüşlük institution that pre-dates the cove's curated era.

Sunset cove fish house, consistent, family-run, the working version of the Gümüşlük template.

Year-round Mediterranean room in Bitez, minimalist, kitchen-first, the off-season anchor the bay needed.

Bitez modern-Aegean kitchen, careful sourcing, calm room, the established middle of the bay.

Bitez seafront daytime room, shallow-water bay, kitchen-led lunch, the right answer for a long midday.

Mantı, çiğbörek and gözleme on the Bitez village square, the breakfast room a second house cannot do without.

The Gündoğan iskele fish anchor, Mustafa's family, the day's catch, the cove's quiet evening.

The Adana / Tarsus kebab institution's Gündoğan summer outpost, the cove's reliable meat night.

Gündoğan fish-and-meze room, the cove's second iskele address, smaller and lower-pressure than the anchor.

Smaller Gündoğan harbour fish house, the value entry against the cove's anchor names.

Yahşi-side display-on-ice fish counter, value, freshness, the working version of the Ortakent harbour template.

Yahşi-side Aegean kitchen, the meze counter the producer-market crowd circles back to for dinner.

Small-plates and sushi room in Türkbükü, the modern street-food-meets-cocktail format the bay was missing.

Counter-led teppanyaki on the Türkbükü cove, the right answer for a serious Japanese dinner outside Yalıkavak.

The Asarlık franchise of the global Buddha-Bar Beach brand, pan-Asian-Mediterranean beach club inside Caresse Marriott.

Bitez seafront beach club since 1993, the bay's longest-running daytime room, residential rather than spectacle.

The Aktur Tatil Sitesi residents' beach, daytime canteen, evening live music, the Bitez compound's working room.

Cennet Koyu daytime beach club, strict 10:00–19:00 calendar, international house and melodic-techno residencies.

MGallery Yalıkavak signature room, modern Aegean-Anatolian under Kemal Can Yurttaş, Gault&Millau Young Chef of the Year 2024.

Mehmet and Tülin Çuhadar's seafood room at Milta Marina; Bodrum's reference fish house since the early 2000s

The Eskiçeşme köfte counter the marina taxi drivers still queue for, three decades into the same recipe

A small Adliye Sokak family kitchen, a meze tray and a chalkboard fish list, and a returning crowd that knows the names

Akyarlar harbour fish house on Yalı Caddesi, the village's #2-ranked seafront room with live music nights and full meze counter.

Akyarlar seafront fish room on Yalı Caddesi, a six-meze rakı-balık table at a price ceiling well below the bay's named rooms.

Akyarlar harbour boutique-hotel kitchen on Liman Caddesi, Cretan-paste mussel rice and grilled fish at the village register, with rooms upstairs.

Aspat Anthaven seafood bistro, the southern-bay alternative to the harbour fish rooms, garlic shrimp and shrimp bruschetta on a Google 4.9.

The Anthaven Japanese kitchen, the only sushi-and-wok room on the south side of the peninsula, two beats away from the Akyarlar harbour.

Yahşi seafront fine-dining beach restaurant since 2014, Aegean steakhouse-and-seafood with Travelers' Choice and a clear view of Kos.

Yahşi seafront hotel restaurant, Tripadvisor #2 in Ortakent, Travelers' Choice, steak-and-meze on the sand with Friday-night live music.

Müskebi Caddesi beach club opened 2023, bohemian daytime room on the Yahşi sand with cabanas, long pier and a kitchen running into the evening.

Yahşi boutique beach-hotel restaurant on Asma Sokak, Aegean kitchen, blue-flag private beach, six-to-seven happy hour with DJ.

Gault&Millau Türkiye Best Seafood 2024-2025-2026, the Istanbul fish house's chef-driven summer outpost on Sess Türkbükü pier.

Lucca Bebek's evening Türkbükü dinner room on Cennet Koyu, fire-baked pizzas, wood-grilled seafood and an award-winning bar.

Mandarin Oriental's all-day Turkish room, the resort's renowned breakfast service plus a season-driven Anatolian dinner card.

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

Chef Murat Deniz Temel and Kerem Tanel's 2025 Türkbükü opening, Aegean and Anatolian flavours with a sunset pier bar.

Türkbükü pier institution since 1970, the bay's longest-running family-run fish house, candlelit dinner over the sea.

Divan Bodrum Palmira's signature dinner room on Göltürkbükü, Executive Chef Adnan Öztürk's Aegean kitchen with a zero-waste programme.

Susona Bodrum's beachfront day club, Aegean and Mediterranean small plates on Torba Bay, day-to-dusk DJ programming

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

Susona's all-day Aegean kitchen above the infinity pool, micro-local produce, Saturday Taverna nights

HYDE Bodrum's beach club, Mediterranean and Japanese plates, daily DJ programming, adults-only

HYDE Bodrum's late-night French Riviera bistro, Côte d'Azur classics, DJ-driven dinner room

Casa Dell'Arte's seaside Italian dining room, wood-fired fish, fresh pasta, art-hotel setting

Family-run beach hotel restaurant on Torba Bay, Mediterranean and Mexican kitchen under Chef Eduardo Luna

Torba village's family-run Aegean and Turkish kitchen, twenty-plus years on Atatürk Caddesi, manti and çiğ börek

Bitez seafront kitchen next to the Yalı mosque, the bay's long-running all-day room.

Melina Kırmacı's family-recipe Italian kitchen, set inside a mandarin and lemon orchard in inland Bitez.

Köşebaşı's Bitez branch since 2022, year-round Adana-Tarsus kebap programme with a real garden.

Rita and Koko Fesçi's handmade-pasta room on Adliye Caddesi, the Bitez village pasta address since 2012.

Pomelan beach compound bundling beach club, brasserie, balıkçı and a jazz room under chef Cüneyt Kırsan.

Bitez Yalısı beachfront kitchen and beach club, kitchen-led seafood from morning to late.

Çökertme Caddesi steak-and-beach room since 2025, dry-age beef and lamb sourced from Afyon and Balıkesir producers.

Erhan Usta's fish house on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1983, still the chef's name on the door

İlknur and Cengiz Özbaşaran's family fish house on the Gümüşlük beach since 1992, recommended in New York Times

A direct-on-the-water Gümüşlük fish room with the boats and Rabbit Island a metre from the table

A Gümüşlük classic since 1990, fish-grill room on the Yalı Mevkii with the same logic three decades on

A 1991-opened fish room on the iskele, navy-blue tables, white walls, the same family on the floor

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

Chef Uğur Filiz's open-fire fish room with the panoramic seat and the underwater lights at the tables

One of Gümüşlük's oldest tables, 160 seats with a direct sightline to Tavşan Adası and the sunset

A sourdough pizzeria with hand-crafted gin-tonic on homemade tonic, the village's alternative dinner

The Bayazhan family's Antep kitchen brought to Konacık in 2021, with a stone-oven katmer line that runs year-round.

Konacık's culture-and-gastronomy compound, library, kitchen, garden and a 400-capacity outdoor stage running jazz, theatre and author nights.

Konacık's butcher-and-ocakbaşı pairing on Adliye Caddesi, dry-age cabinet, copper grill, the room the peninsula's chefs send their cooks for chops on a day off.

Konacık's Atatürk Bulvarı pide-and-kebap room with a buffet kahvaltı for the residential weekend, stone-oven pide and Manisa köfte, open until three.

The Kızılağaç köy kahvaltısı address on the Yalıçiftlik road since 2015, with eggs from the garden coop and a kitchen run by the family that owns the land.

The 1987 family pansiyon on the Yalıçiftlik strand, with a sea-front dining room the chapter reads as Çiftlik's straight-line meze house.

The Kızılağaç köy garden with a kendin-pişir kendin-ye mangal pit, a stone-oven kahvaltı line and a small zoo for the children, fifteen years on the same road.

The Yalıçiftlik fisherman's room, tables set directly in the shallows, the day's fish off the boat, the family Mustafa Bey runs to a fifteen-cover register.

The Alparslan family's clean-and-quiet pansiyon on Yalıçiftlik Caddesi, three generations on the strand, café meals on the deck, no destination noise.

Chef Nilay Lale's Khai Hotel signature room on the Yahşi pier, modern Aegean meets Asian technique.

Long-standing rakı and fish house on Yahşi shore, catch of the day on ice, large dining room.

Small rakı-balık room on Müskebi Caddesi, grilled octopus and prawn casserole as house signatures.

Yahşi's new-generation beach-restaurant room, bohemian-chic evening kitchen signed by chef Melisa Yördem.

Right on the water in Gündoğan, the village reference that runs fish and beach service together.

Built on Yalı Mevkii, a classic Gündoğan beach cafe known for its olive-oil dishes and homemade mezes.

Chef Horikoshi's Japanese kitchen inside Cape Bodrum, Vedat Milor's Bodrum sushi reference.

Gündoğan's stone-oven pizzeria; Avni Usta's thin crust and the village neighbourhood address.

Bodrum's reference for Belgian-style pot mussels, opposite the Gündoğan harbour.

Beach-restaurant opened in Küçükbük by Danış Ulaş in 2021; Mediterranean cooking and a natural cove.

White Rabbit Family's Mediterrasian seafood room at Yalıkavak Marina, brand-chef Vladimir Mukhin's Türkiye outpost.

Vasilchuk Brothers' Pan-Asian restaurant-and-show on the Yalıkavak Marina seafront, sister room of Birds Moscow.

Novikov Group's first Türkiye outpost at Yalıkavak Marina, Asian-Mediterranean seafood with the brand's display-case grammar.

OPA's Yalıkavak Marina outpost, chef Tim Newton's shared-plate Greek room with a sunset music programme.

Allium Bodrum Resort's signature room, modern Aegean over the Çökertme cliff with the Greek-islands horizon.

Mehmet Çuhadar's classic Aegean fish house, Gölköy 2001, Yalıkavak branch since 2007.

Birdcage 33 Hotel's terrace restaurant, karma mutfak (assorted cuisine) over Yalıkavak Bay.