Waterfront in Bodrum

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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