Beste Classic Mekane in Bodrum

The original Türkbükü beach hotel that defined Aegean restraint for two generations

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

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

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

A long-running Türkbükü waterfront table reached by private boat from the iskele

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

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

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

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

The old D-Marin Bodrum members' room, open to non-members for lunch on the western harbour

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

The Cipriani family's first Aegean room, on the Palmarina pier with the Harry's Bar carbonara intact

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

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

The Yalıkavak breakfast institution's Türkbükü branch, with garden tables and its own jetty

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

The 1983 stone-house jazz bar where Yeni Türkü and Erkan Oğur played before anyone had heard of them