Venues similar to Melengeç Türkbükü

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

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

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

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

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

İlknur and Cengiz Özbaşaran's family fish house on the Gümüşlük beach since 1992, recommended in New York Times

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

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

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

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

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

Tilkicik Cove's original fish house, on its own jetty since 1993 and still family-run

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

Bodrum's only real Spanish house, Neco's San Sebastián tapas on a 300-year-old stone street

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

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

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

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