Mediterranean in Bodrum

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

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

Tolgar Mireli's veg-led Aegean kitchen dissolving into a Gümüşlük hillside garden

Family-run beach hotel restaurant on Torba Bay, Mediterranean and Mexican kitchen under Chef Eduardo Luna

A small Adliye Sokak family kitchen, a meze tray and a chalkboard fish list, and a returning crowd that knows the names

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

A Gümüşlük classic since 1990, fish-grill room on the Yalı Mevkii with the same logic three decades on

A 1991-opened fish room on the iskele, navy-blue tables, white walls, the same family on the floor

Chef Murat Deniz Temel and Kerem Tanel's 2025 Türkbükü opening, Aegean and Anatolian flavours with a sunset pier bar.

A direct-on-the-water Gümüşlük fish room with the boats and Rabbit Island a metre from the table

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

Torba's classic family fish house, on the Kilise bay since 1987 and open through the off-season

The mother-and-son Aegean fish house that has held the Yahşi-Ortakent waterfront since the marina was built

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

The Gümüşlük meze house's Türkbükü sister, on Liman Caddesi with thirty cold and hot starters

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

A long-running fish house at the western Bodrum harbour, with a serious raki sofrası

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