Elegant in Bodrum

Gault&Millau Türkiye Best Seafood 2024-2025-2026, the Istanbul fish house's chef-driven summer outpost on Sess Türkbükü pier.

Casa Dell'Arte's seaside Italian dining room, wood-fired fish, fresh pasta, art-hotel setting

A hillside fine-dining room above the village, live music after sunset, world-cuisine card

Cennet Koyu sunset cocktail terrace, the bay's most decorated bar with Haute Grandeur cocktail-menu wins across three consecutive seasons.

Susona's sunset seafood and sushi bar with Tipsy Crab, golden-hour deck on Torba Bay, DJ programme

The original Sait Yılmaz seafood room on Neyzen Tevfik; the Bodrum kitchen that built the Galataport and Yalıkavak branches

Susona's pool-side Italian-Japanese kitchen under Kaan Yıldırım, sashimi, hand-rolled pasta, golden-hour DJ sets

Serhat Doğramacı's farm-to-table tasting room, Türkiye's newest Michelin star and a Green Star for sustainability

The Kumbahçe seafood room with a Michelin Green Star and one menu for the whole house each night

Maçakızı's intimate eighteen-cover fine-dining counterpoint, by Aret Sahakyan, Turkish classics rewritten as memory and terroir

Mandarin Oriental's Japanese-Peruvian room, sushi, robata and sake on the resort's main beach, run by the IOKI Istanbul team

Susona's Michelin Guide-listed dining room, Gürkan Tümsek's micro-local Aegean kitchen, zero-waste, vegetable-forward

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

Gümüşlük's defining seafood house, where Istanbul tables run two seatings on August nights

18-room Gölköy Bay seafront hotel and beach restaurant, Chef İsmail Ceylan's Mediterranean kitchen on a 150-year-old stone-house property.

HYDE Bodrum's late-night French Riviera bistro, Côte d'Azur classics, DJ-driven dinner room

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

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

Çiğdem Seferoğlu's vegetable-led tasting room at the quiet Küdür Bay end of Yalıkavak

A long-running Türkbükü waterfront classic that runs serious seafood by night

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

The Marmara's hilltop terrace, Hakan Süve's Mediterranean kitchen, Michelin Guide listed, four İncili pearls, and the city's best castle view

The Knightsbridge izakaya's summer pier at the far end of Palmarina, robata and sashimi in the same register as London

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

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