New Arrivals

Beachside daytime dining with dishes designed to share

Osman Sezener's coastal Aegean cooking at The Bodrum EDITION

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

Mehmet Akdağ's Anatolian cooking and open-fire techniques

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Barlar Sokağı rock bar that has held the same stage and the same rotating live band line-up since 2006

The 1992 bar street original, vinyl rock from the sixties through the nineties, run by the Subaşıoğlu family

Roger Lange's German-trained sourdough bakery and café on Caferpaşa, with curated Munchbox grazing trays

The Adliye Sokak bookshop café where the floor-to-ceiling shelves lean on art, philosophy and sociology

A 24-room boutique on Omurca with a rooftop restaurant, two pools and the owners' own H&G organic wine

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.