Bar in Bodrum

Sunset Hospitality's Yalıkavak Marina Hotel beach club, Mediterranean-Japanese kitchen with a sundeck programme.

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

Cennet Koyu sunset cocktail terrace, the bay's most decorated bar with Haute Grandeur cocktail-menu wins across three consecutive seasons.

Susona's sunset seafood and sushi bar with Tipsy Crab, golden-hour deck on Torba Bay, DJ programme

Ruins Hotel rooftop, Sips Barcelona (World's 50 Best #3) partnership, the most credentialed cocktail program in the chapter.

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

The 1992 bar street original, vinyl rock from the sixties through the nineties, run by the Subaşıoğlu family

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

Haremtan hillside above Bodrum-merkez, MICHELIN-listed kitchen with a sunset cocktail program that runs its own shift.

Neyzen Tevfik cocktail room run by two ex-Lucca Bebek bartenders, the chapter's working answer west of the castle.

Summer outpost of the Arnavutköy bartender-led original, Yalıkavak village side, sunset-anchored, serious cocktails.

Yalıkavak Palmarina bistro that flips to a live-music room on Friday and Saturday, curated bookings, kitchen-anchored.

The Yalıkavak village-waterfront cousin of the Bodrum-merkez bar, smaller room, harbour-facing, late-shift cocktails.

No:81 Hotel's beach deck, a Türkbükü bay restaurant that turns into a proper night room

Kuum Hotel's beach restaurant on the Türkbükü deck, sunset table, late-night dance floor

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

Gündoğan's salt-and-sand original since 2000, windsurf school by day, neighbourhood bar with live jazz at night

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

A Çarşı-side cocktail bar with the castle in the frame and a list that takes itself seriously