Neyzen Tevfik cocktail room run by two ex-Lucca Bebek bartenders, the chapter's working answer west of the castle.
İxir works the Neyzen Tevfik marina side of Bodrum-merkez (west of the castle, on the curatorial side of the chapter's exclusion line) and runs a cocktail program built by two former Lucca Bebek mixologists, Mehmet Şahin among them. The card is classic cocktails alongside house creations; the signature 'Chili Passion' (chilli-mango long drink) is the calling card. Müdavim names İxir among the peninsula's serious cocktail rooms. The yazlıkçı reader is the Istanbul thirties or forties looking for a Bodrum-merkez cocktail without the Cumhuriyet-Caddesi noise, Neyzen Tevfik runs quieter, the bar program is bartender-led, and the price ceiling is the right one for the format.
Chili Passion is the house signature. The bar runs longer than the kitchen, order a small plate for the table and treat the room as a bar with food, not a restaurant with cocktails. Marina-side seating gets the breeze.
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