Mekane in Bodrum

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

1968 harbour fish house — the Gümüşlük institution that pre-dates the cove's curated era.

Smaller Gündoğan harbour fish house — the value entry against the cove's anchor names.

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

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

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