Best Bars & Clubs in Bodrum

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

A speakeasy cocktail bar set inside a 500-year-old stone house behind the marina, lemon tree in the garden

A restored nineteenth-century olive-oil mill in Ortakent, run as a wine and coffee house with a working press

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

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

A Çarşı-side cocktail bar with the castle in the frame and a list that takes itself seriously

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

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

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

Gündoğan's salt-and-sand original since 2000, windsurf school by day, neighbourhood bar with live jazz at night

Ruins Hotel rooftop, Sips Barcelona (World's 50 Best #3) partnership, the most credentialed cocktail program in the chapter.

Summer outpost of the Arnavutköy bartender-led original, Yalıkavak village side, sunset-anchored, serious cocktails.

Neyzen Tevfik cocktail room run by two ex-Lucca Bebek bartenders, the chapter's working answer west of the castle.

Haremtan hillside above Bodrum-merkez, MICHELIN-listed kitchen with a sunset cocktail program that runs its own shift.

The Yalıkavak village-waterfront cousin of the Bodrum-merkez bar, smaller room, harbour-facing, late-shift cocktails.