Places in Bodrum

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

The Cumhuriyet trattoria that has held the Michelin Bib Gourmand for Neapolitan pizza and seafood risotto since 2013

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

Bitez Yalısı beachfront kitchen and beach club, kitchen-led seafood from morning to late.

İlknur and Cengiz Özbaşaran's family fish house on the Gümüşlük beach since 1992, recommended in New York Times

Long-standing rakı and fish house on Yahşi shore, catch of the day on ice, large dining room.

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

Müskebi Caddesi beach club opened 2023, bohemian daytime room on the Yahşi sand with cabanas, long pier and a kitchen running into the evening.

Susona's all-day Aegean kitchen above the infinity pool, micro-local produce, Saturday Taverna nights

Right on the water in Gündoğan, the village reference that runs fish and beach service together.

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

Yahşi boutique beach-hotel restaurant on Asma Sokak, Aegean kitchen, blue-flag private beach, six-to-seven happy hour with DJ.

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

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

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

Small rakı-balık room on Müskebi Caddesi, grilled octopus and prawn casserole as house signatures.

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

Yahşi seafront hotel restaurant, Tripadvisor #2 in Ortakent, Travelers' Choice, steak-and-meze on the sand with Friday-night live music.

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

Bitez modern-Aegean kitchen, careful sourcing, calm room, the established middle of the bay.

The Adana / Tarsus kebab institution's Gündoğan summer outpost, the cove's reliable meat night.

Bitez seafront daytime room, shallow-water bay, kitchen-led lunch, the right answer for a long midday.

Bitez seafront beach club since 1993, the bay's longest-running daytime room, residential rather than spectacle.

The Gündoğan iskele fish anchor, Mustafa's family, the day's catch, the cove's quiet evening.

Yahşi-side Aegean kitchen, the meze counter the producer-market crowd circles back to for dinner.

The Yalıkavak breakfast institution's Türkbükü branch, with garden tables and its own jetty

Güvercinlik's quieter waterside fish house, on the same Sahilyolu address since 1985

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

Yalıkavak's original family fish kitchen, opened in the early 1980s and still on the same corner

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

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

Tilkicik Cove's original fish house, on its own jetty since 1993 and still family-run

The first table on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1962, still run by the family

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