Intimate in Bodrum

Chef Nilay Lale's Khai Hotel signature room on the Yahşi pier, modern Aegean meets Asian technique.

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

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

A Gümüşlük classic since 1990, fish-grill room on the Yalı Mevkii with the same logic three decades on

A direct-on-the-water Gümüşlük fish room with the boats and Rabbit Island a metre from the table

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

A restored stone-house art village on the Yakaköy ridge, galleries, ateliers, an Ottoman ethnographic room and a film bar

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

A speakeasy cocktail bar set inside a 500-year-old stone house behind the marina, lemon tree in the garden

The Akyarlar harbour fish house run by the same family since 1986, with Kos a sunset away across the strait

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

A Roman chef's intimate trattoria in Kumbahçe, pasta alla genovese and a roof terrace over Bodrum bay

A restored nineteenth-century olive-oil mill in Ortakent, run as a wine and coffee house with a working press

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

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

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