Lokale in Bodrum

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

Vasilchuk Brothers' Pan-Asian restaurant-and-show on the Yalıkavak Marina seafront, sister room of Birds Moscow.

Allium Bodrum Resort's signature room, modern Aegean over the Çökertme cliff with the Greek-islands horizon.

A hillside fine-dining room above the village, live music after sunset, world-cuisine card

OPA's Yalıkavak Marina outpost, chef Tim Newton's shared-plate Greek room with a sunset music programme.

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

The original Sait Yılmaz seafood room on Neyzen Tevfik; the Bodrum kitchen that built the Galataport and Yalıkavak branches

White Rabbit Family's Mediterrasian seafood room at Yalıkavak Marina, brand-chef Vladimir Mukhin's Türkiye outpost.

Modern-minimalist 52-room Türkbükü cove, quiet, food-forward, the not-Macakizi answer in the same bay.

All-day Gümüşlük operation, small hotel, kitchen-led seafood, a wine list the cove was missing.

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

Osman Sezener's one-Michelin-star Aegean kitchen at The Bodrum EDITION, the peninsula's most serious tasting menu

The original Türkbükü beach hotel that defined Aegean restraint for two generations

The most controlled, design-led beach club operation on the Yalıkavak side

D-Ream Group's Yalıkavak Marina nightclub-restaurant, tropical-modern room running Asian and South American fusion.

METT Hotel beach club above Haremtan Cove, sundeck cabanas, grilled fish, occasional live-music nights.

Counter-led teppanyaki on the Türkbükü cove, the right answer for a serious Japanese dinner outside Yalıkavak.

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

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

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

A long-running Türkbükü waterfront classic that runs serious seafood by night

Palmarina's pan-Asian sushi bar that turns into a 600-cap dance floor after midnight

Türkbükü's Armenian-Aegean table, family-run and quietly precise

A smartly run, design-led beach club tucked between Yalıkavak and Gümüşlük