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One of Gümüşlük's oldest tables, 160 seats with a direct sightline to Tavşan Adası and the sunset

The first table on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1962, still run by the family

A 1991-opened fish room on the iskele, navy-blue tables, white walls, the same family on the floor

The Gümüşlük meze house's Türkbükü sister, on Liman Caddesi with thirty cold and hot starters

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

A quieter alternative on the Gümüşlük iskele, run by a fishing family

The Cumhuriyet trattoria that has held the Michelin Bib Gourmand for Neapolitan pizza and seafood risotto since 2013

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

Bitez seafront kitchen next to the Yalı mosque, the bay's long-running all-day room.

Bitez Yalısı beachfront kitchen and beach club, kitchen-led seafood from morning to late.

A direct-on-the-water Gümüşlük fish room with the boats and Rabbit Island a metre from the table

A Gümüşlük classic since 1990, fish-grill room on the Yalı Mevkii with the same logic three decades on

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

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

A long-running fish house at the western Bodrum harbour, with a serious raki sofrası

The mother-and-son Aegean fish house that has held the Yahşi-Ortakent waterfront since the marina was built

Torba's classic family fish house, on the Kilise bay since 1987 and open through the off-season

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

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

The 1987 family pansiyon on the Yalıçiftlik strand, with a sea-front dining room the chapter reads as Çiftlik's straight-line meze house.