Intimate in Bodrum

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

A small Adliye Sokak family kitchen, a meze tray and a chalkboard fish list — and a returning crowd that knows the names

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

A 5,000-bottle boutique winery rooted in the ancient Myndos terroir — Şiraz, Chardonnay, Öküzgözü

The Barlar Sokağı rock bar that has held the same stage and the same rotating live band line-up since 2006

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

Garden table overlooking Rabbit Island — Aegean meze and grilled meat, sunset choreography.

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

Bodrum's only real Spanish house — Neco's San Sebastián tapas on a 300-year-old stone street

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

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

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