Στέκια in Bitez

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

Bib Gourmand 2026, Ümmühan Girgin's mandarin-garden meze house in the back lanes of Bitez

Scandinavian-named specialty coffee shop on Bitez's Kanuni Sultan Süleyman line, the bay's third-wave corner.

Köşebaşı's Bitez branch since 2022, year-round Adana-Tarsus kebap programme with a real garden.

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

Garden-set Van-style serpme kahvaltı on Bergamut Caddesi, the eastern Anatolian breakfast that Bodrum was missing.

Bitez modern-Aegean kitchen, careful sourcing, calm room, the established middle of the bay.

Mantı, çiğbörek and gözleme on the Bitez village square, the breakfast room a second house cannot do without.

Bitez seafront beach club since 1993, the bay's longest-running daytime room, residential rather than spectacle.

A geography-of-Türkiye meze and kebab room under the mandarin trees, Bib Gourmand 2025-2026

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

A four-decare mandarin orchard in old Bitez where a young couple set the Aegean breakfast bar

A garden patisserie in Bitez, run on sourdough bread and almond croissants

An understated Bitez seafront fish house that runs to the proper meyhane register