Lukka Beach Restaurant
Trendy Elegant Waterfront
Lukka Beach
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A smartly run, design-led beach club tucked between Yalıkavak and Gümüşlük
Cosmopolitan & Coastal
Yalıkavak
Marina-set Bodrum — yacht harbour theatre, meyhane rigour at Tilkicik
Yalıkavak is the marina set's address in summer Bodrum — Istanbul's seasonal social calendar moves here in full from June through September, and the venues run accordingly. The bar list and the brand inventory cluster around the Edmiston-class superyacht harbour, but the serious eating is up the hill at Tilkicik cove, where two or three meyhane rooms hold their own against anything in the chapter. Lunch on the marina is the loud shift; dinner pulls toward the cove, and a Friday or Saturday table at the meyhane bench needs a week's notice in season. Skip the marina-mall restaurants — the kitchens worth a flight are a five-minute taxi inland.
Highlights
Yalıkavak Marina superyacht harbour Aegean meze and balıkçı row Lukka Beach + Maçakızı orbit Sunset-facing west coast
40 places
5 Categories
Restaurant
30 places
Mandalin Yalıkavak Restaurant
Romantic Intimate Rustic
Mandalin Yalıkavak
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Garden-style Aegean cooking in an old village house behind the marina
The Beach Club at The Bodrum EDITION Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Elegant Waterfront Modern
The Beach Club at The Bodrum EDITION
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The most controlled, design-led beach club operation on the Yalıkavak side
Mezra Yalıkavak Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Elegant Intimate Modern
Mezra Yalıkavak
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Serhat Doğramacı's farm-to-table tasting room — Türkiye's newest Michelin star and a Green Star for sustainability
Miços Yalıkavak Restaurant
Waterfront Rustic Classic
Miços Yalıkavak
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Tilkicik Cove's original fish house, on its own jetty since 1993 and still family-run
Hasan'ın Yeri Restaurant
Classic Rustic Cozy
Hasan'ın Yeri
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Yalıkavak's original family fish kitchen, opened in the early 1980s and still on the same corner
Cipriani Bodrum Restaurant
Elegant Waterfront See & Be Seen
Cipriani Bodrum
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The Cipriani family's first Aegean room, on the Palmarina pier with the Harry's Bar carbonara intact
Zuma Bodrum Restaurant
Elegant Waterfront Trendy
Zuma Bodrum
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The Knightsbridge izakaya's summer pier at the far end of Palmarina, robata and sashimi in the same register as London
Kitchen by Osman Sezener Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Elegant Michelin Starred Intimate
Kitchen by Osman Sezener
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Osman Sezener's one-Michelin-star Aegean kitchen at The Bodrum EDITION, the peninsula's most serious tasting menu
Sait Yalıkavak Marina Restaurant
Waterfront Marina See & Be Seen
Sait Yalıkavak Marina
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The Yalıkavak marina's reference fish house — Aegean classics, ice-displayed catch, Michelin Guide listed
Sefte Bahçe Restaurant
Garden Rustic Family
Sefte Bahçe
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A Yalıkavak hillside breakfast room run by a Kosovo-immigrant family — Rumeli register on an Aegean table
Mandalin Bahçesi Restaurant
Garden Family Classic
Mandalin Bahçesi
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A classic Yalıkavak breakfast garden under mandarin trees, every table with its own woven shade
The Trattoria by Stefano Ciotti Restaurant
Fine Dining Elegant International Brand
The Trattoria by Stefano Ciotti
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EDITION's upper-deck Italian, run by Pesaro's Michelin-starred Stefano Ciotti — Italian comfort food taken seriously
DAHA by Mehmet Akdağ Restaurant
Fine Dining Elegant International Brand
DAHA by Mehmet Akdağ
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EDITION's new Anatolian room — third-generation 7Mehmet's Mehmet Akdağ brings six hundred years of Antalya's repertoire to Yalıkavak
Hodan Yalıkavak Restaurant
Elegant Waterfront Intimate
Hodan Yalıkavak
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Çiğdem Seferoğlu's vegetable-led tasting room at the quiet Küdür Bay end of Yalıkavak
Mertcan Kokoreç Restaurant
Classic Casual Local
Mertcan Kokoreç
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An İzmir kokoreç ustası that opened in 1974 and brought the trade to Yalıkavak in 2013 — the peninsula's serious answer
Xuma Village Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Waterfront Bohemian Calm
Xuma Village
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Twenty-eight-year-old Yalıkavak beach village — capped capacity, bohemian-mature, the anti-marina antidote.
MOMO Bodrum Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Waterfront Trendy Cosmopolitan
MOMO Bodrum
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Tilkicik Bay aperitivo room — Mediterranean wood-deck format that opened 2022 and immediately found its register.
Itzá Bodrum Restaurant
Waterfront All Day Casual
Itzá Bodrum
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Yalıkavak all-day beach-to-cocktail arc — the accessible version of the chapter, without the marina markup.
Folie at METT Bodrum Restaurant
Waterfront Hotel Restaurant Elegant
Folie at METT Bodrum
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METT Hotel beach club above Haremtan Cove — sundeck cabanas, grilled fish, occasional live-music nights.
Bagatelle Bodrum Restaurant
Marina See & Be Seen Trendy
Bagatelle Bodrum
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Palmarina pontoon import of the New York / Saint-Tropez French-Mediterranean room — rosé and table-side theatre.
Bohemy Yalıkavak Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Hotel Restaurant Kitchen Led Modern
Bohemy Yalıkavak
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MGallery Yalıkavak signature room — modern Aegean-Anatolian under Kemal Can Yurttaş, Gault&Millau Young Chef of the Year 2024.
Sakhalin Bodrum Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Waterfront Marina Raw Bar
Sakhalin Bodrum
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White Rabbit Family's Mediterrasian seafood room at Yalıkavak Marina, brand-chef Vladimir Mukhin's Türkiye outpost.
Birds Bodrum Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Waterfront Marina Dinner Show
Birds Bodrum
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Vasilchuk Brothers' Pan-Asian restaurant-and-show on the Yalıkavak Marina seafront, sister room of Birds Moscow.
Novikov Bodrum Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Waterfront Marina International
Novikov Bodrum
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Novikov Group's first Türkiye outpost at Yalıkavak Marina, Asian-Mediterranean seafood with the brand's display-case grammar.
OPA Bodrum Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Waterfront Marina Shared Plate
OPA Bodrum
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OPA's Yalıkavak Marina outpost, chef Tim Newton's shared-plate Greek room with a sunset music programme.
The Red Balloon Yalıkavak Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Hotel Restaurant Kitchen Led Michelin Recommended
The Red Balloon Yalıkavak
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Chef Ulaş Durmaz's North Aegean seafood room at Avantgarde Refined, MICHELIN Guide 2025 and Gault&Millau Modern Cuisine 2025.
Cliff Bodrum Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Hotel Restaurant Waterfront Modern
Cliff Bodrum
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Allium Bodrum Resort's signature room, modern Aegean over the Çökertme cliff with the Greek-islands horizon.
Memedof Yalıkavak Restaurant
Family Run Seafood Classic
Memedof Yalıkavak
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Mehmet Çuhadar's classic Aegean fish house, Gölköy 2001, Yalıkavak branch since 2007.
Lika Bodrum Restaurant
Editor's Pick
Restaurant Hotel Restaurant Terrace Modern
Lika Bodrum
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Birdcage 33 Hotel's terrace restaurant, karma mutfak (assorted cuisine) over Yalıkavak Bay.
Cafe
2 places
Boho Bakery Cafe
Chill Minimal Cozy
Boho Bakery
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A French-trained patisserie on Yalıkavak's Atatürk Caddesi, with the peninsula's most serious viennoiserie
Asmalı Çardak Yalıkavak Cafe
Breakfast Garden Village
Asmalı Çardak Yalıkavak
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Old Bodrum house off the Sandıma road, the peninsula's reference village-breakfast room.
Nightclub
2 places
Wu Yalıkavak Nightclub
See & Be Seen Music Forward Trendy
Wu Yalıkavak
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Palmarina's pan-Asian sushi bar that turns into a 600-cap dance floor after midnight
Fenix Bodrum Nightclub
Waterfront Marina Dj Late
Fenix Bodrum
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D-Ream Group's Yalıkavak Marina nightclub-restaurant, tropical-modern room running Asian and South American fusion.
Bar
5 places
Sips Bodrum Bar
Editor's Pick
Bar Rooftop Cocktail Program Destination
Sips Bodrum
$$$$
Ruins Hotel rooftop — Sips Barcelona (World's 50 Best #3) partnership, the most credentialed cocktail program in the chapter.
Kavanoz Yalıkavak Bar
Cocktail Program Village Sunset
Kavanoz Yalıkavak
$$$
Summer outpost of the Arnavutköy bartender-led original — Yalıkavak village side, sunset-anchored, serious cocktails.
Yula Yalıkavak Bar
Village Waterfront Cocktail Program
Yula Yalıkavak
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The Yalıkavak village-waterfront cousin of the Bodrum-merkez bar — smaller room, harbour-facing, late-shift cocktails.
The Agency Palmarina Bar
Live Music Marina Kitchen Led
The Agency Palmarina
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Yalıkavak Palmarina bistro that flips to a live-music room on Friday and Saturday — curated bookings, kitchen-anchored.
Aura Beach Bodrum Bar
Editor's Pick
Bar Waterfront Marina Daytime
Aura Beach Bodrum
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Sunset Hospitality's Yalıkavak Marina Hotel beach club, Mediterranean-Japanese kitchen with a sundeck programme.
Hotel
1 place
