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The Cumhuriyet trattoria that has held the Michelin Bib Gourmand for Neapolitan pizza and seafood risotto since 2013

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

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

Akyarlar seafront fish room on Yalı Caddesi, a six-meze rakı-balık table at a price ceiling well below the bay's named rooms.

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

Built on Yalı Mevkii, a classic Gündoğan beach cafe known for its olive-oil dishes and homemade mezes.

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

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

Mehmet and Tülin Çuhadar's seafood room at Milta Marina; Bodrum's reference fish house since the early 2000s

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

A quieter alternative on the Gümüşlük iskele, run by a fishing family

Türkbükü's Armenian-Aegean table, family-run and quietly precise

An understated Bitez seafront fish house that runs to the proper meyhane register

Türkbükü's oldest fish house, on the iskele since 1997 and still in family hands

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

The mother-and-son Aegean fish house that has held the Yahşi-Ortakent waterfront since the marina was built

Torba's classic family fish house, on the Kilise bay since 1987 and open through the off-season

Güvercinlik's quieter waterside fish house, on the same Sahilyolu address since 1985

Akyarlar harbour fish house on Yalı Caddesi, the village's #2-ranked seafront room with live music nights and full meze counter.

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