Mekane in Bodrum

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

MICHELIN Guide-listed boutique resort over Küdür Bay, 32 rooms, three restaurants, The Red Balloon and Hodan on the gastronomy side.

Konacık's MICHELIN-recommended esnaf lokantası since 1999, the tray-line everyone from the marina mechanic to İstanbullu second-home owners works through.

The Kızılağaç köy kahvaltısı address on the Yalıçiftlik road since 2015, with eggs from the garden coop and a kitchen run by the family that owns the land.

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

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.

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

İlknur and Cengiz Özbaşaran's family fish house on the Gümüşlük beach since 1992, recommended in New York Times

Old Bodrum house off the Sandıma road, the peninsula's reference village-breakfast room.

Long-standing rakı and fish house on Yahşi shore, catch of the day on ice, large dining room.

A small garden breakfast in Farilya's inner lanes, running on homemade jams and wood-oven börek.

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

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

Family-run beach hotel restaurant on Torba Bay — Mediterranean and Mexican kitchen under Chef Eduardo Luna

Müskebi Caddesi beach club opened 2023 — bohemian daytime room on the Yahşi sand with cabanas, long pier and a kitchen running into the evening.

The Bayazhan family's Antep kitchen brought to Konacık in 2021, with a stone-oven katmer line that runs year-round.

Cafer Karakaya's fish counter and beachfront room on the Yahşi shore, TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice 2025.

Konacık's Atatürk Bulvarı pide-and-kebap room with a buffet kahvaltı for the residential weekend — stone-oven pide and Manisa köfte, open until three.

Susona's all-day Aegean kitchen above the infinity pool — micro-local produce, Saturday Taverna nights

Right on the water in Gündoğan, the village reference that runs fish and beach service together.

Konacık's butcher-and-ocakbaşı pairing on Adliye Caddesi — dry-age cabinet, copper grill, the room the peninsula's chefs send their cooks for chops on a day off.

Torba village's family-run Aegean and Turkish kitchen — twenty-plus years on Atatürk Caddesi, manti and çiğ börek

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

Blue Flag beach and restaurant on Yahşi cove, stone-oven pizzas and a boutique room with a generous garden.

Yahşi boutique beach-hotel restaurant on Asma Sokak — Aegean kitchen, blue-flag private beach, six-to-seven happy hour with DJ.

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

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

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

Village breakfast café known across the peninsula for its homemade jams and poğaça

The Kızılağaç köy garden with a kendin-pişir kendin-ye mangal pit, a stone-oven kahvaltı line and a small zoo for the children — fifteen years on the same road.

Bodrum's reference for Belgian-style pot mussels, opposite the Gündoğan harbour.

One of Gümüşlük's oldest tables, 160 seats with a direct sightline to Tavşan Adası and the sunset

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

Small rakı-balık room on Müskebi Caddesi, grilled octopus and prawn casserole as house signatures.

A sourdough pizzeria with hand-crafted gin-tonic on homemade tonic, the village's alternative dinner

Gündoğan's stone-oven pizzeria; Avni Usta's thin crust and the village neighbourhood address.

Long-running rakı-balık and beach room on the Ortakent-Yahşi waterfront, open from eight in the morning to midnight.

Akyarlar harbour boutique-hotel kitchen on Liman Caddesi — Cretan-paste mussel rice and grilled fish at the village register, with rooms upstairs.

A 1991-opened fish room on the iskele, navy-blue tables, white walls, the same family on the floor

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.

Yahşi seafront hotel restaurant — Tripadvisor #2 in Ortakent, Travelers' Choice, steak-and-meze on the sand with Friday-night live music.

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

The Alparslan family's clean-and-quiet pansiyon on Yalıçiftlik Caddesi — three generations on the strand, café meals on the deck, no destination noise.

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.

Yahşi-side display-on-ice fish counter — value, freshness, the working version of the Ortakent harbour template.

The Adana / Tarsus kebab institution's Gündoğan summer outpost — the cove's reliable meat night.

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.

The Gündoğan iskele fish anchor — Mustafa's family, the day's catch, the cove's quiet evening.

Yahşi-side Aegean kitchen — the meze counter the producer-market crowd circles back to for dinner.

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

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

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

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

A fourteen-decare orchard kahvaltı house on the Göltürkbükü inland line, run on farm logic

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

Yalıkavak's original family fish kitchen, opened in the early 1980s and still on the same corner

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

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 classic Yalıkavak breakfast garden under mandarin trees, every table with its own woven shade

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

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

Gündoğan's village house breakfast since 1999, named for the wood-burning kuzine in the back garden

A Yalıkavak hillside breakfast room run by a Kosovo-immigrant family — Rumeli register on an Aegean table

Bülent and Nazmiye's mandarin-grove kahvaltı house above Gündoğan — the unexpanded village breakfast, on principle

An inland Yahşi farm-table breakfast — own-garden vegetables, cured house charcuterie, Sunday-morning ritual

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

The morning corner of Gümüşlük, where coffee arrives before the boats unload

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

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