Maçakızı Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Elegant Waterfront See & Be Seen
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The original Türkbükü beach hotel that defined Aegean restraint for two generations
Discreet & Established
Türkbükü
The quiet Bodrum, iskele fish, old summer-house position, Maçakızı template
Türkbükü is the older, quieter position on the peninsula, the Istanbul summer-house crowd that does not do marina, the family that has rented the same villa for fifteen seasons, the bay that pre-dates the yacht era and behaves like it. The eating is iskele-borne fish: wooden piers over still water, rakı by the bottle, the kitchen built around whatever the local boats brought in that morning. Sunset is the shift that matters; a beach-club lunch is incidental, the long evening on a wooden deck is the point. Maçakızı (1977) is the room that set the template, book a fortnight ahead in August, longer for a weekend. Skip anything calling itself a beach club here; the iskele rooms are the chapter.
Highlights
Maçakızı (since 1977) Iskele-perched fish houses Calmer protected bay Old-guard yazlık community
31 places
4 Categories
Restaurant
25 places
Garo's Restaurant
Classic Intimate Waterfront
Atılay Balık Restaurant
Classic Waterfront Elegant
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Türkbükü's oldest fish house, on the iskele since 1997 and still in family hands
Pitahaya Mutfak Restaurant
Intimate Waterfront Elegant
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An intimate Türkbükü beachfront kitchen with a small chef-led menu that turns over with the season
Melengeç Türkbükü Restaurant
Classic Waterfront Intimate
The Gümüşlük meze house's Türkbükü sister, on Liman Caddesi with thirty cold and hot starters
Miam Restaurant
Classic Waterfront Elegant
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A long-running Türkbükü waterfront classic that runs serious seafood by night
ROKA Bodrum Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Elegant Destination Waterfront
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Zuma's sibling brand at Mandarin Oriental, robatayaki, sushi and Aegean cliff views, returning May 2026
Gigi Rigolatto Bodrum Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant See & Be Seen Long Lunch Elegant
The Saint-Tropez and Paris Italian, now permanently at Mandarin Oriental Bodrum from summer 2026
Bozukbağ Kahvaltıcısı Restaurant
Rustic Garden Family
A fourteen-decare orchard kahvaltı house on the Göltürkbükü inland line, run on farm logic
Kurochan by IOKI Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Fine Dining Destination Elegant
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Mandarin Oriental's Japanese-Peruvian room, sushi, robata and sake on the resort's main beach, run by the IOKI Istanbul team
Hakkasan Bodrum Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Elegant Waterfront See & Be Seen
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The London-Vegas Cantonese house running its tenth global outpost on Cennet Bay
Ayla Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Fine Dining Elegant Intimate
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Maçakızı's intimate eighteen-cover fine-dining counterpoint, by Aret Sahakyan, Turkish classics rewritten as memory and terroir
Bük Beach Club Restaurant
Waterfront Calm Discreet
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The quiet fifteen-room Türkbükü alternative, small cove, slow service, no DJ.
Kuum Hotel & Spa Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Waterfront Modern Minimalist
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Modern-minimalist 52-room Türkbükü cove, quiet, food-forward, the not-Macakizi answer in the same bay.
Blue Beach Club at Mandarin Oriental Restaurant
Waterfront Institutional Luxury
Cennet Koyu institutional-luxury beach, cabanas, low noise, the Mandarin standard on a private bay.
Keyn Türkbükü Restaurant
Modern Small Plates Sushi
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Small-plates and sushi room in Türkbükü, the modern street-food-meets-cocktail format the bay was missing.
Natsu Teppanyaki & Sushi Bar Restaurant
Modern Japanese Counter Led
Counter-led teppanyaki on the Türkbükü cove, the right answer for a serious Japanese dinner outside Yalıkavak.
Lucca Beach Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Waterfront Daytime Dj Program
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Cennet Koyu daytime beach club, strict 10:00–19:00 calendar, international house and melodic-techno residencies.
Arnavutköy Balıkçısı Türkbükü Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Waterfront Kitchen Led Elegant
Gault&Millau Türkiye Best Seafood 2024-2025-2026, the Istanbul fish house's chef-driven summer outpost on Sess Türkbükü pier.
Lucca by the Sea Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Waterfront Destination Kitchen Led
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Lucca Bebek's evening Türkbükü dinner room on Cennet Koyu, fire-baked pizzas, wood-grilled seafood and an award-winning bar.
Sofra at Mandarin Oriental Bodrum Restaurant
Hotel Restaurant Family Friendly Kitchen Led
Mandarin Oriental's all-day Turkish room, the resort's renowned breakfast service plus a season-driven Anatolian dinner card.
Flamm Bodrum Restaurant
Waterfront Hotel Restaurant Kitchen Led
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18-room Gölköy Bay seafront hotel and beach restaurant, Chef İsmail Ceylan's Mediterranean kitchen on a 150-year-old stone-house property.
Yaka Bodrum Restaurant
Waterfront Kitchen Led New Opening
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Chef Murat Deniz Temel and Kerem Tanel's 2025 Türkbükü opening, Aegean and Anatolian flavours with a sunset pier bar.
Eda Balık Türkbükü Restaurant
Waterfront Classic Family Run
Türkbükü pier institution since 1970, the bay's longest-running family-run fish house, candlelit dinner over the sea.
Lokanta by Divan Bodrum Restaurant
Hotel Restaurant Kitchen Led Elegant
Divan Bodrum Palmira's signature dinner room on Göltürkbükü, Executive Chef Adnan Öztürk's Aegean kitchen with a zero-waste programme.
Cafe
2 places
Asmalı Çardak Türkbükü Cafe
Classic Waterfront Rustic
The Yalıkavak breakfast institution's Türkbükü branch, with garden tables and its own jetty
Farina Bakery Cafe
Artisan Intimate Local
A small Türkbükü artisan bakery doing serious sourdough on a side street the second-homers have learned to find
Nightclub
1 place
Scorpios Bodrum Nightclub
See & Be Seen Music Forward Waterfront
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The Mykonos institution's first international outpost, sunset ritual, beach house kitchen, real programme
Bar
3 places
DAZE Türkbükü Bar
Waterfront Music Forward Elegant
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No:81 Hotel's beach deck, a Türkbükü bay restaurant that turns into a proper night room
Galia Bar
Waterfront See & Be Seen Music Forward
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Kuum Hotel's beach restaurant on the Türkbükü deck, sunset table, late-night dance floor
Mandarin Bar at Mandarin Oriental Bodrum Bar
Editor's Pick
Bar Waterfront Sunset Elegant
Cennet Koyu sunset cocktail terrace, the bay's most decorated bar with Haute Grandeur cocktail-menu wins across three consecutive seasons.
