Waterfront in Bodrum

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

Mehmet and Tülin Çuhadar's seafood room at Milta Marina; Bodrum's reference fish house since the early 2000s

Bib Gourmand 2026, a chic all-day meze room on D-Marin Göcek with the yachts in the foreground and the Reşadiye mountains behind

Beachside daytime dining with dishes designed to share

Tilkicik Bay aperitivo room, Mediterranean wood-deck format that opened 2022 and immediately found its register.

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

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

Yalıkavak all-day beach-to-cocktail arc, the accessible version of the chapter, without the marina markup.

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

The Yalıkavak village-waterfront cousin of the Bodrum-merkez bar, smaller room, harbour-facing, late-shift cocktails.

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

A smartly run, design-led beach club tucked between Yalıkavak and Gümüşlük

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