Mediterranean in Bodrum

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

Erhan Usta's fish house on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1983, still the chef's name on the door

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

MGallery Yalıkavak signature room, modern Aegean-Anatolian under Kemal Can Yurttaş, Gault&Millau Young Chef of the Year 2024.

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

A bougainvillea-shaded hilltop terrace that has been the Gümüşlük sunset for two decades

Gümüşlük's defining seafood house, where Istanbul tables run two seatings on August nights

Türkbükü pier institution since 1970, the bay's longest-running family-run fish house, candlelit dinner over the sea.

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

Gündoğan's seaside fish house, run by Chef Ali Akbalık and the village's first reference for two decades

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

A third-generation Akyarlar fish house since 1978, on a wooded cape fifteen metres above the strait to Kos

A stone-house seafood room on Güvercinlik's quiet bay, Bib Gourmand 2026 and the reason to drive past Bodrum

The Akyarlar harbour fish house run by the same family since 1986, with Kos a sunset away across the strait

An intimate Türkbükü beachfront kitchen with a small chef-led menu that turns over with the season

The Yalıkavak marina's reference fish house, Aegean classics, ice-displayed catch, Michelin Guide listed

Garden-style Aegean cooking in an old village house behind the marina