Best Views in Bodrum

A smartly run, design-led beach club tucked between Yalıkavak and Gümüşlük

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

The most controlled, design-led beach club operation on the Yalıkavak side

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

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

Yalıkavak's original family fish kitchen, opened in the early 1980s and still on the same corner

The Cipriani family's first Aegean room, on the Palmarina pier with the Harry's Bar carbonara intact

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

A French-trained patisserie on Yalıkavak's Atatürk Caddesi, with the peninsula's most serious viennoiserie

Osman Sezener's one-Michelin-star Aegean kitchen at The Bodrum EDITION, the peninsula's most serious tasting menu

The Yalıkavak marina's reference fish house — Aegean classics, ice-displayed catch, Michelin Guide listed

A Yalıkavak hillside breakfast room run by a Kosovo-immigrant family — Rumeli register on an Aegean table

A classic Yalıkavak breakfast garden under mandarin trees, every table with its own woven shade

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

EDITION's upper-deck Italian, run by Pesaro's Michelin-starred Stefano Ciotti — Italian comfort food taken seriously

EDITION's new Anatolian room — third-generation 7Mehmet's Mehmet Akdağ brings six hundred years of Antalya's repertoire to Yalıkavak

Çiğdem Seferoğlu's vegetable-led tasting room at the quiet Küdür Bay end of Yalıkavak

An İzmir kokoreç ustası that opened in 1974 and brought the trade to Yalıkavak in 2013 — the peninsula's serious answer

Bib Gourmand 2026 — a chic all-day meze room on D-Marin Göcek with the yachts in the foreground and the Reşadiye mountains behind

Haremtan hillside above Bodrum-merkez — MICHELIN-listed kitchen with a sunset cocktail program that runs its own shift.

Sunset Hospitality's Yalıkavak Marina Hotel beach club, Mediterranean-Japanese kitchen with a sundeck programme.