Venues similar to Mahmut Dede'nin Yeri

Akyarlar harbour boutique-hotel kitchen on Liman Caddesi, Cretan-paste mussel rice and grilled fish at the village register, with rooms upstairs.

Akyarlar harbour fish house on Yalı Caddesi, the village's #2-ranked seafront room with live music nights and full meze counter.

Güvercinlik's quieter waterside fish house, on the same Sahilyolu address since 1985

Bodrum's reference for Belgian-style pot mussels, opposite the Gündoğan harbour.

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

The Aktur Tatil Sitesi residents' beach, daytime canteen, evening live music, the Bitez compound's working room.

Built on Yalı Mevkii, a classic Gündoğan beach cafe known for its olive-oil dishes and homemade mezes.

Gündoğan's seaside fish house, run by Chef Ali Akbalık and the village's first reference for two decades

A third-generation Akyarlar fish house since 1978, on a wooded cape fifteen metres above the strait to Kos

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

A long-running fish house at the western Bodrum harbour, with a serious raki sofrası

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

Türkbükü's oldest fish house, on the iskele since 1997 and still in family hands

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

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

Smaller Gündoğan harbour fish house, the value entry against the cove's anchor names.

The Cumhuriyet trattoria that has held the Michelin Bib Gourmand for Neapolitan pizza and seafood risotto since 2013

The Eskiçeşme köfte counter the marina taxi drivers still queue for, three decades into the same recipe

A direct-on-the-water Gümüşlük fish room with the boats and Rabbit Island a metre from the table

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