A Roman chef's intimate trattoria in Kumbahçe, pasta alla genovese and a roof terrace over Bodrum bay
Gümüşlük International Classical Music Festival
Five weeks of recitals at the old stone quarry above Gümüşlük, chamber concerts that let out at 22:30 and feed straight into the village's fish houses on the iskele. Mimoza, Limon and Ali Rıza'nın Yeri run their longest seatings of the year
Pitahaya Mutfak
Türkbükü
An intimate Türkbükü beachfront kitchen with a small chef-led menu that turns over with the season
Melengeç Türkbükü
Türkbükü
The Gümüşlük meze house's Türkbükü sister, on Liman Caddesi with thirty cold and hot starters
Karafaki Erhan Usta
Gümüşlük
Erhan Usta's fish house on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1983, still the chef's name on the door
Mimoza Bodrum
Gümüşlük
Gümüşlük's defining seafood house, where Istanbul tables run two seatings on August nights
Limon Gümüşlük
Gümüşlük
A bougainvillea-shaded hilltop terrace that has been the Gümüşlük sunset for two decades
Ali Rıza'nın Yeri
Gümüşlük
The first table on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1962, still run by the family
Mandalin Yalıkavak
Yalıkavak
Garden-style Aegean cooking in an old village house behind the marina
Kalamare
Bodrum
A long-running fish house at the western Bodrum harbour, with a serious raki sofrası
Orfoz
Bodrum
The Kumbahçe seafood room with a Michelin Green Star and one menu for the whole house each night
Kâtip
Bodrum
A speakeasy cocktail bar set inside a 500-year-old stone house behind the marina, lemon tree in the garden
Mehtap Balık
Akyarlar
The Akyarlar harbour fish house run by the same family since 1986, with Kos a sunset away across the strait
Gonca Balık
Torba
Torba's classic family fish house, on the Kilise bay since 1987 and open through the off-season
Yula Bodrum
Bodrum
A Çarşı-side cocktail bar with the castle in the frame and a list that takes itself seriously
La Pasion
Bodrum
Bodrum's only real Spanish house, Neco's San Sebastián tapas on a 300-year-old stone street