Best Places for Drinks in Bodrum

The 1983 stone-house jazz bar where Yeni Türkü and Erkan Oğur played before anyone had heard of them

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

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

The Mykonos institution's first international outpost — sunset ritual, beach house kitchen, real programme

No:81 Hotel's beach deck — a Türkbükü bay restaurant that turns into a proper night room

A Çarşı-side cocktail bar with the castle in the frame and a list that takes itself seriously

An old-Bodrum back-alley bar on Banka Sokak — rock and 80s, signature mandarin Sandoz

Kuum Hotel's beach restaurant on the Türkbükü deck — sunset table, late-night dance floor

Palmarina's pan-Asian sushi bar that turns into a 600-cap dance floor after midnight

Joey Ghazal's Dubai-born brasserie lands on a hilltop above Maxx Royal — raw bar, prime steak and a 360° view of the Aegean

The Barlar Sokağı rock bar that has held the same stage and the same rotating live band line-up since 2006

The 1992 bar street original, vinyl rock from the sixties through the nineties, run by the Subaşıoğlu family

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

Bitez village Mexican cantina from İrem Gürses, fire-grilled meats and handmade tortillas with a DJ programme.

Konacık's culture-and-gastronomy compound — library, kitchen, garden and a 400-capacity outdoor stage running jazz, theatre and author nights.