Places in Bodrum

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

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

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

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

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

A small Adliye Sokak family kitchen, a meze tray and a chalkboard fish list, and a returning crowd that knows the names

Türkbükü pier institution since 1970, the bay's longest-running family-run fish house, candlelit dinner over the sea.

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 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

A meyhane built into Sadun Boro's old Bodrum house, with kanun on the terrace and the castle in view

The peninsula's serious grill, dry-aged steak, kebabs and a wood-fire ocakbaşı that has held the Bib Gourmand three years running