Locali affini a Mavi Bar

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

A meyhane built into Sadun Boro's old Bodrum house, with kanun on the terrace and the castle in view

A speakeasy cocktail bar set inside a 500-year-old stone house behind the marina, lemon tree in the garden

Bodrum's pre-Cumhuriyet-rush institution, on the Neyzen Tevfik harbour since 1979

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

Yalıkavak Palmarina bistro that flips to a live-music room on Friday and Saturday, curated bookings, kitchen-anchored.

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

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

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

Kuum Hotel's beach restaurant on the Türkbükü deck, sunset table, late-night dance floor

A restored stone-house art village on the Yakaköy ridge, galleries, ateliers, an Ottoman ethnographic room and a film bar

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

Rita and Koko Fesçi's handmade-pasta room on Adliye Caddesi, the Bitez village pasta address since 2012.

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