Places in Bodrum

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

Erhan Usta's fish house on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1983, still the chef's name on the door

Birdcage 33 Hotel's terrace restaurant, karma mutfak (assorted cuisine) over Yalıkavak Bay.

MICHELIN Young Chef Award 2026, Duru Akgül's restored olive-oil mill on the Reşadiye Peninsula

A bougainvillea-shaded hilltop terrace that has been the Gümüşlük sunset for two decades

Türkbükü pier institution since 1970, the bay's longest-running family-run fish house, candlelit dinner over the sea.

Akyarlar harbour fish house on Yalı Caddesi, the village's #2-ranked seafront room with live music nights and full meze counter.

Mehmet Çuhadar's classic Aegean fish house, Gölköy 2001, Yalıkavak branch since 2007.

Yahşi seafront fine-dining beach restaurant since 2014, Aegean steakhouse-and-seafood with Travelers' Choice and a clear view of Kos.

Gündoğan's seaside fish house, run by Chef Ali Akbalık and the village's first reference for two decades

A third-generation Akyarlar fish house since 1978, on a wooded cape fifteen metres above the strait to Kos

A stone-house seafood room on Güvercinlik's quiet bay, Bib Gourmand 2026 and the reason to drive past Bodrum

The Akyarlar harbour fish house run by the same family since 1986, with Kos a sunset away across the strait

An intimate Türkbükü beachfront kitchen with a small chef-led menu that turns over with the season

A Roman chef's intimate trattoria in Kumbahçe, pasta alla genovese and a roof terrace over Bodrum bay

Garden-style Aegean cooking in an old village house behind the marina