Bodrum Season Opening

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

Kuum Hotel's beach restaurant on the Türkbükü deck, sunset table, late-night dance floor

Beachside daytime dining with dishes designed to share

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

Naru and Dereköy Lokantası team's all-day bistro-bar on Adliye Caddesi, DJ programme on weekends.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 1983 stone-house jazz bar where Yeni Türkü and Erkan Oğur played before anyone had heard of them

The Mykonos institution's first international outpost, sunset ritual, beach house kitchen, real programme

An old-Bodrum back-alley bar on Banka Sokak, rock and 80s, signature mandarin Sandoz

Palmarina's pan-Asian sushi bar that turns into a 600-cap dance floor after midnight