Locali affini a Kâtip

A Çarşı-side cocktail bar with the castle in the frame and a list that takes itself seriously

Bitez village Mexican cantina from İrem Gürses, fire-grilled meats and handmade tortillas with a DJ programme.

No:81 Hotel's beach deck, a Türkbükü bay restaurant that turns into a proper night room

The Barlar Sokağı rock bar that has held the same stage and the same rotating live band line-up since 2006

A restored nineteenth-century olive-oil mill in Ortakent, run as a wine and coffee house with a working press

A Roman chef's intimate trattoria in Kumbahçe, pasta alla genovese and a roof terrace over Bodrum bay

Bodrum's only real Spanish house, Neco's San Sebastián tapas on a 300-year-old stone street

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

Naru and Dereköy Lokantası team's all-day bistro-bar on Adliye Caddesi, DJ programme on weekends.

A bougainvillea-shaded hilltop terrace that has been the Gümüşlük sunset for two decades

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

An intimate Türkbükü beachfront kitchen with a small chef-led menu that turns over with the season

The Gümüşlük meze house's Türkbükü sister, on Liman Caddesi with thirty cold and hot starters

Erhan Usta's fish house on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1983, still the chef's name on the door

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

Neyzen Tevfik cocktail room run by two ex-Lucca Bebek bartenders, the chapter's working answer west of the castle.

The 1992 bar street original, vinyl rock from the sixties through the nineties, run by the Subaşıoğlu family