Venues similar to Cafe Chives

The peninsula's only proper third-wave roastery, between Bodrum-merkez and Bitez

A French-trained patisserie on Yalıkavak's Atatürk Caddesi, with the peninsula's most serious viennoiserie

The Adliye Sokak bookshop café where the floor-to-ceiling shelves lean on art, philosophy and sociology

Tülay Toker's small French patisserie behind Gümüşlük, viennoiserie taken seriously

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

The morning corner of Gümüşlük, where coffee arrives before the boats unload

A small Türkbükü artisan bakery doing serious sourdough on a side street the second-homers have learned to find

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

Village breakfast café known across the peninsula for its homemade jams and poğaça

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.

Hilal Tayfun's Le Cordon Bleu kitchen above the village, brasserie, artisan bakery, French patisserie under one roof