Mekane in Bitez

Pomelan beach compound bundling beach club, brasserie, balıkçı and a jazz room under chef Cüneyt Kırsan.

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

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

Melina Kırmacı's family-recipe Italian kitchen, set inside a mandarin and lemon orchard in inland Bitez.

Çökertme Caddesi steak-and-beach room since 2025, dry-age beef and lamb sourced from Afyon and Balıkesir producers.

MICHELIN Guide modern kebab — the most ambitious kitchen in Bitez, kebab as fine-dining grammar.

Bib Gourmand 2026 — Ümmühan Girgin's mandarin-garden meze house in the back lanes of Bitez

Bitez Yalısı beachfront kitchen and beach club, kitchen-led seafood from morning to late.

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

Bitez village Mexican cantina from İrem Gürses, fire-grilled meats and handmade tortillas with a DJ programme.

Scandinavian-named specialty coffee shop on Bitez's Kanuni Sultan Süleyman line, the bay's third-wave corner.

Köşebaşı's Bitez branch since 2022, year-round Adana-Tarsus kebap programme with a real garden.

Year-round Bitez village brasserie with a mandarin-tree garden, breakfast through dinner.

Garden-set Van-style serpme kahvaltı on Bergamut Caddesi, the eastern Anatolian breakfast that Bodrum was missing.

Bitez modern-Aegean kitchen — careful sourcing, calm room, the established middle of the bay.

The Aktur Tatil Sitesi residents' beach — daytime canteen, evening live music, the Bitez compound's working room.

Mantı, çiğbörek and gözleme on the Bitez village square — the breakfast room a second house cannot do without.

Year-round Mediterranean room in Bitez — minimalist, kitchen-first, the off-season anchor the bay needed.

Bitez seafront daytime room — shallow-water bay, kitchen-led lunch, the right answer for a long midday.

Bitez seafront beach club since 1993 — the bay's longest-running daytime room, residential rather than spectacle.

A geography-of-Türkiye meze and kebab room under the mandarin trees, Bib Gourmand 2025-2026

The İhtiyar brothers' 1995 ice-cream counter on Bitez square, before it was a national name

A four-decare mandarin orchard in old Bitez where a young couple set the Aegean breakfast bar

A second-generation Bitez breakfast house tucked into the citrus gardens behind the bay

A garden patisserie in Bitez, run on sourdough bread and almond croissants

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