Places in Ortakent

Yahşi's new-generation beach-restaurant room, bohemian-chic evening kitchen signed by chef Melisa Yördem.

Chef Nilay Lale's Khai Hotel signature room on the Yahşi pier, modern Aegean meets Asian technique.

A candlelit garden dinner up in Müskebi, well off the marina strip

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

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

Yahşi-side display-on-ice fish counter, value, freshness, the working version of the Ortakent harbour template.

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

The peninsula's only lokum atelier, Bodrum mandalina and satsuma turned into a confection that travels

A Gürece atelier making cow-and-goat-milk dondurma with real salep and nothing else, three tables out front

The Saturday seed-association producer market, heirloom Aegean vegetables, raw honey, ev reçeli, straight from the grower

A restored stone-house art village on the Yakaköy ridge, galleries, ateliers, an Ottoman ethnographic room and a film bar

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

A restored nineteenth-century olive-oil mill in Ortakent, run as a wine and coffee house with a working press

An inland Yahşi farm-table breakfast, own-garden vegetables, cured house charcuterie, Sunday-morning ritual