Garden 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.

Konacık's culture-and-gastronomy compound, library, kitchen, garden and a 400-capacity outdoor stage running jazz, theatre and author nights.

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

MICHELIN Young Chef Award 2026, Duru Akgül's restored olive-oil mill on the Reşadiye Peninsula

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

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

Tolgar Mireli's veg-led Aegean kitchen dissolving into a Gümüşlük hillside garden

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

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

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

A speakeasy cocktail bar set inside a 500-year-old stone house behind the marina, lemon tree in the garden