Rustic in Bodrum

The Kızılağaç köy kahvaltısı address on the Yalıçiftlik road since 2015, with eggs from the garden coop and a kitchen run by the family that owns the land.

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

A 5,000-bottle boutique winery rooted in the ancient Myndos terroir, Şiraz, Chardonnay, Öküzgözü

A Gümüşlük classic since 1990, fish-grill room on the Yalı Mevkii with the same logic three decades on

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

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

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

Torba's classic family fish house, on the Kilise bay since 1987 and open through the off-season

Yalıkavak's original family fish kitchen, opened in the early 1980s and still on the same corner

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

Tilkicik Cove's original fish house, on its own jetty since 1993 and still family-run

The first table on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1962, still run by the family

A quieter alternative on the Gümüşlük iskele, run by a fishing family

Garden-style Aegean cooking in an old village house behind the marina

An understated Bitez seafront fish house that runs to the proper meyhane register