Locali affini a Mandarin Cafe Gümüşlük

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

A French-trained patisserie on Yalıkavak's Atatürk Caddesi, with the peninsula's most serious viennoiserie

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

Year-round Bitez village brasserie with a mandarin-tree garden, breakfast through dinner.

A 5,000-bottle boutique winery rooted in the ancient Myndos terroir, Şiraz, Chardonnay, Öküzgözü

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

The peninsula's only proper third-wave roastery, between Bodrum-merkez and Bitez

Roger Lange's German-trained sourdough bakery and café on Caferpaşa, with curated Munchbox grazing trays

The Adliye Sokak bookshop café where the floor-to-ceiling shelves lean on art, philosophy and sociology

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.

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.

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

Mantı, çiğbörek and gözleme on the Bitez village square, the breakfast room a second house cannot do without.

Bitez seafront kitchen next to the Yalı mosque, the bay's long-running all-day room.