El Vino Hotel & Suites Hotel Scelta della redazione Hotel Confronta Boutique Rooftop Wine Program El Vino Hotel & Suites Bodrum $$$ A 24-room boutique on Omurca with a rooftop restaurant, two pools and the owners' own H&G organic wine
Lika Bodrum Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Hotel Restaurant Terrace Modern Lika Bodrum Yalıkavak $$$ Birdcage 33 Hotel's terrace restaurant, karma mutfak (assorted cuisine) over Yalıkavak Bay.
Opaque by the Sea Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Intimate Kitchen Led Modern Opaque by the Sea Yahşi $$$$ Chef Nilay Lale's Khai Hotel signature room on the Yahşi pier, modern Aegean meets Asian technique.
Bağarası Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Garden Rustic Intimate Bağarası Bitez $$$ Bib Gourmand 2026, Ümmühan Girgin's mandarin-garden meze house in the back lanes of Bitez
Orfoz Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Intimate Elegant Waterfront Orfoz Bodrum $$$$ The Kumbahçe seafood room with a Michelin Green Star and one menu for the whole house each night
Kitchen by Osman Sezener Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Elegant Michelin Starred Intimate Kitchen by Osman Sezener Yalıkavak $$$$ Osman Sezener's one-Michelin-star Aegean kitchen at The Bodrum EDITION, the peninsula's most serious tasting menu
Limon Gümüşlük Restaurant Scelta della redazione Restaurant Confronta Romantic Elegant Classic Limon Gümüşlük Gümüşlük $$$ A bougainvillea-shaded hilltop terrace that has been the Gümüşlük sunset for two decades
Gümüşlük Wines Shop Shop Confronta Artistic Hidden Gem Intimate Gümüşlük Wines Gümüşlük $$$ A 5,000-bottle boutique winery rooted in the ancient Myndos terroir, Şiraz, Chardonnay, Öküzgözü
Hoca'nın Yeri Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Traditional Family Run Intimate Hoca'nın Yeri Torba $$ Torba village's family-run Aegean and Turkish kitchen, twenty-plus years on Atatürk Caddesi, manti and çiğ börek
Okyanus Restaurant Gümüşlük Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Waterfront Classic Rustic Okyanus Restaurant Gümüşlük Gümüşlük $$$ A Gümüşlük classic since 1990, fish-grill room on the Yalı Mevkii with the same logic three decades on
Palavra Balık Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Intimate Classic Rustic Palavra Balık Yahşi $$$ Small rakı-balık room on Müskebi Caddesi, grilled octopus and prawn casserole as house signatures.
Şahane Restorant Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Waterfront Boutique Family Run Şahane Restorant Akyarlar $$ Akyarlar harbour boutique-hotel kitchen on Liman Caddesi, Cretan-paste mussel rice and grilled fish at the village register, with rooms upstairs.
Yakamoz Restaurant Gümüşlük Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Waterfront Classic Intimate Yakamoz Restaurant Gümüşlük Gümüşlük $$$ A direct-on-the-water Gümüşlük fish room with the boats and Rabbit Island a metre from the table
Yalıyanı Motel & Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Waterfront Family Friendly Intimate Yalıyanı Motel & Restaurant Çiftlik $$ The Alparslan family's clean-and-quiet pansiyon on Yalıçiftlik Caddesi, three generations on the strand, café meals on the deck, no destination noise.
Natsu Teppanyaki & Sushi Bar Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Modern Japanese Counter Led Natsu Teppanyaki & Sushi Bar Türkbükü $$$$ Counter-led teppanyaki on the Türkbükü cove, the right answer for a serious Japanese dinner outside Yalıkavak.
Atılay Balık Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Waterfront Elegant Atılay Balık Türkbükü $$$$ Türkbükü's oldest fish house, on the iskele since 1997 and still in family hands
Beynel Bitez Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Garden Regional Cuisine Intimate Beynel Bitez Bitez $$$ A geography-of-Türkiye meze and kebab room under the mandarin trees, Bib Gourmand 2025-2026
Denizden Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Elegant Intimate Garden Denizden Bodrum $$$$ Mehmet Yalçınkaya's seafood room set inside the courtyard of the old Kocadon stone house
Dibeklihan Kültür ve Sanat Köyü Gallery Gallery Confronta Historic Artistic Rustic Dibeklihan Kültür ve Sanat Köyü Ortakent $$ A restored stone-house art village on the Yakaköy ridge, galleries, ateliers, an Ottoman ethnographic room and a film bar
Farina Bakery Cafe Cafe Confronta Artisan Intimate Local Farina Bakery Türkbükü $$ A small Türkbükü artisan bakery doing serious sourdough on a side street the second-homers have learned to find
Gonca Balık Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Waterfront Classic Intimate Gonca Balık Torba $$$ Torba's classic family fish house, on the Kilise bay since 1987 and open through the off-season
Hasan'ın Yeri Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Rustic Cozy Hasan'ın Yeri Yalıkavak $$$ Yalıkavak's original family fish kitchen, opened in the early 1980s and still on the same corner
Kâtip Bar Bar Confronta Intimate Garden Speakeasy Kâtip Bodrum $$$ A speakeasy cocktail bar set inside a 500-year-old stone house behind the marina, lemon tree in the garden
Mandalya Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Waterfront Village Intimate Mandalya Güvercinlik $$$ A stone-house seafood room on Güvercinlik's quiet bay, Bib Gourmand 2026 and the reason to drive past Bodrum
Mehtap Balık Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Waterfront Classic Family Mehtap Balık Akyarlar $$$ The Akyarlar harbour fish house run by the same family since 1986, with Kos a sunset away across the strait
Miços Yalıkavak Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Waterfront Rustic Classic Miços Yalıkavak Yalıkavak $$$ Tilkicik Cove's original fish house, on its own jetty since 1993 and still family-run
Pitahaya Mutfak Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Intimate Waterfront Elegant Pitahaya Mutfak Türkbükü $$$ An intimate Türkbükü beachfront kitchen with a small chef-led menu that turns over with the season
Ristorante Italiano Trastevere Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Intimate Owner Run Authentic Ristorante Italiano Trastevere Bodrum $$$ A Roman chef's intimate trattoria in Kumbahçe, pasta alla genovese and a roof terrace over Bodrum bay
Toprak Ana Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Garden Rustic Family Toprak Ana Gündoğan $$ Bülent and Nazmiye's mandarin-grove kahvaltı house above Gündoğan, the unexpanded village breakfast, on principle
Yağhane Bodrum Bar Bar Confronta Intimate Rustic Artistic Yağhane Bodrum Ortakent $$ A restored nineteenth-century olive-oil mill in Ortakent, run as a wine and coffee house with a working press
Ali Rıza'nın Yeri Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Rustic Waterfront Classic Ali Rıza'nın Yeri Gümüşlük $$$ The first table on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1962, still run by the family
Fener Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Waterfront Rustic Fener Restaurant Gümüşlük $$$ A quieter alternative on the Gümüşlük iskele, run by a fishing family
Garo's Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Intimate Waterfront Garo's Türkbükü $$$$ Türkbükü's Armenian-Aegean table, family-run and quietly precise
Mandalin Yalıkavak Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Romantic Intimate Rustic Mandalin Yalıkavak Yalıkavak $$$ Garden-style Aegean cooking in an old village house behind the marina
Memedof Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Classic Waterfront Intimate Memedof Bitez $$$ An understated Bitez seafront fish house that runs to the proper meyhane register