Venues similar to Yakamengen III

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

Serhat Doğramacı's farm-to-table tasting room, Türkiye's newest Michelin star and a Green Star for sustainability

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

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

Birdcage 33 Hotel's terrace restaurant, karma mutfak (assorted cuisine) over Yalıkavak Bay.

A stone-house seafood room on Güvercinlik's quiet bay, Bib Gourmand 2026 and the reason to drive past Bodrum

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

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

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

Mehmet Yalçınkaya's seafood room set inside the courtyard of the old Kocadon stone house

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

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

MICHELIN Guide modern kebab, the most ambitious kitchen in Bitez, kebab as fine-dining grammar.

Counter-led teppanyaki on the Türkbükü cove, the right answer for a serious Japanese dinner outside Yalıkavak.

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

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

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

The Yalıçiftlik fisherman's room, tables set directly in the shallows, the day's fish off the boat, the family Mustafa Bey runs to a fifteen-cover register.

Chef Nilay Lale's Khai Hotel signature room on the Yahşi pier, modern Aegean meets Asian technique.