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.

The 1987 family pansiyon on the Yalıçiftlik strand, with a sea-front dining room the chapter reads as Çiftlik's straight-line meze house.

Old Bodrum house off the Sandıma road, the peninsula's reference village-breakfast room.

Torba village's family-run Aegean and Turkish kitchen, twenty-plus years on Atatürk Caddesi, manti and çiğ börek

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

The Kızılağaç köy garden with a kendin-pişir kendin-ye mangal pit, a stone-oven kahvaltı line and a small zoo for the children, fifteen years on the same road.

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 Alparslan family's clean-and-quiet pansiyon on Yalıçiftlik Caddesi, three generations on the strand, café meals on the deck, no destination noise.

The Yalıkavak breakfast institution's Türkbükü branch, with garden tables and its own jetty

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

A fourteen-decare orchard kahvaltı house on the Göltürkbükü inland line, run on farm logic

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

A four-decare mandarin orchard in old Bitez where a young couple set the Aegean breakfast bar

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

Gündoğan's village house breakfast since 1999, named for the wood-burning kuzine in the back garden

Bülent and Nazmiye's mandarin-grove kahvaltı house above Gündoğan, the unexpanded village breakfast, on principle

An inland Yahşi farm-table breakfast, own-garden vegetables, cured house charcuterie, Sunday-morning ritual

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

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

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