Places in Bitez

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

Pomelan beach compound bundling beach club, brasserie, balıkçı and a jazz room under chef Cüneyt Kırsan.

Naru and Dereköy Lokantası team's all-day bistro-bar on Adliye Caddesi, DJ programme on weekends.

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.

MICHELIN Guide modern kebab, the most ambitious kitchen in Bitez, kebab as fine-dining grammar.

Bib Gourmand 2026, Ümmühan Girgin's mandarin-garden meze house in the back lanes of Bitez

Chef Zişan Altınçaba's seasonal garden lokanta in the Dereköy hills

A Bitez garden meyhane, owner-run with a daily meze table under citrus trees

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

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

Bitez village Mexican cantina from İrem Gürses, fire-grilled meats and handmade tortillas with a DJ programme.

Scandinavian-named specialty coffee shop on Bitez's Kanuni Sultan Süleyman line, the bay's third-wave corner.

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

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

Garden-set Van-style serpme kahvaltı on Bergamut Caddesi, the eastern Anatolian breakfast that Bodrum was missing.

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

The Aktur Tatil Sitesi residents' beach, daytime canteen, evening live music, the Bitez compound's working room.

Mantı, çiğbörek and gözleme on the Bitez village square, the breakfast room a second house cannot do without.

Year-round Mediterranean room in Bitez, minimalist, kitchen-first, the off-season anchor the bay needed.

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.

A geography-of-Türkiye meze and kebab room under the mandarin trees, Bib Gourmand 2025-2026

The İhtiyar brothers' 1995 ice-cream counter on Bitez square, before it was a national name

A four-decare mandarin orchard in old Bitez where a young couple set the Aegean breakfast bar

A second-generation Bitez breakfast house tucked into the citrus gardens behind the bay

A garden patisserie in Bitez, run on sourdough bread and almond croissants