Best Romantic Places 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

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

A long-running Türkbükü waterfront table reached by private boat from the iskele

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

A Roman chef's intimate trattoria in Kumbahçe — pasta alla genovese and a roof terrace over Bodrum bay

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

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

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

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

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

A hillside fine-dining room above the village, live music after sunset, world-cuisine card

Chef Uğur Filiz's open-fire fish room with the panoramic seat and the underwater lights at the tables

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