Places in Bodrum

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

The Kızılağaç köy kahvaltısı address on the Yalıçiftlik road since 2015, with eggs from the garden coop and a kitchen run by the family that owns the land.

Bitez seafront kitchen next to the Yalı mosque, the bay's long-running all-day room.

Çökertme Caddesi steak-and-beach room since 2025, dry-age beef and lamb sourced from Afyon and Balıkesir producers.

Rita and Koko Fesçi's handmade-pasta room on Adliye Caddesi, the Bitez village pasta address since 2012.

Konacık's Atatürk Bulvarı pide-and-kebap room with a buffet kahvaltı for the residential weekend, stone-oven pide and Manisa köfte, open until three.

Konacık's butcher-and-ocakbaşı pairing on Adliye Caddesi, dry-age cabinet, copper grill, the room the peninsula's chefs send their cooks for chops on a day off.

Köşebaşı's Bitez branch since 2022, year-round Adana-Tarsus kebap programme with a real garden.

The Eskiçeşme köfte counter the marina taxi drivers still queue for, three decades into the same recipe

The Kızılağaç köy garden with a kendin-pişir kendin-ye mangal pit, a stone-oven kahvaltı line and a small zoo for the children, fifteen years on the same road.

Bodrum's reference for Belgian-style pot mussels, opposite the Gündoğan harbour.

One of Gümüşlük's oldest tables, 160 seats with a direct sightline to Tavşan Adası and the sunset

Year-round Bitez village brasserie with a mandarin-tree garden, breakfast through dinner.

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

Gündoğan's village house breakfast since 1999, named for the wood-burning kuzine in the back garden

Bodrum's pre-Cumhuriyet-rush institution, on the Neyzen Tevfik harbour since 1979