Best Places for Date Night in Bodrum

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

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

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

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

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

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

Serhat Doğramacı's farm-to-table tasting room — Türkiye's newest Michelin star and a Green Star for sustainability

The Knightsbridge izakaya's summer pier at the far end of Palmarina, robata and sashimi in the same register as London

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

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

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

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

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

A meyhane built into Sadun Boro's old Bodrum house, with kanun on the terrace and the castle in view

A speakeasy cocktail bar set inside a 500-year-old stone house behind the marina, lemon tree in the garden

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

A restored nineteenth-century olive-oil mill in Ortakent, run as a wine and coffee house with a working press

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