Arnavutköy Balıkçısı Türkbükü Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Waterfront Kitchen Led Elegant Arnavutköy Balıkçısı Türkbükü Türkbükü $$$$ Gault&Millau Türkiye Best Seafood 2024-2025-2026, the Istanbul fish house's chef-driven summer outpost on Sess Türkbükü pier.
Assaggio at Mandarin Oriental Bodrum Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Hotel Restaurant Elegant Waterfront Assaggio at Mandarin Oriental Bodrum Türkbükü (Cennet Koyu) $$$$ Italian dining room at Mandarin Oriental's Paradise Bay — Chef Fabio De Paolis, Haute Grandeur 2018 Best Mediterranean and Italian Cuisine in Europe.
Cotto Sul Mare Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Fine Dining Elegant Waterfront Cotto Sul Mare Torba $$$$ Casa Dell'Arte's seaside Italian dining room — wood-fired fish, fresh pasta, art-hotel setting
Greta Gümüşlük Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Romantic Modern Greta Gümüşlük Gümüşlük $$$$ A hillside fine-dining room above the village, live music after sunset, world-cuisine card
Jadem Gümüşlük Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Waterfront Modern Romantic Jadem Gümüşlük Gümüşlük $$$$ Chef Uğur Filiz's open-fire fish room with the panoramic seat and the underwater lights at the tables
Karafaki Erhan Usta Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Waterfront Classic Romantic Karafaki Erhan Usta Gümüşlük $$$ Erhan Usta's fish house on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1983, still the chef's name on the door
Lucca by the Sea Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Waterfront Destination Kitchen Led Lucca by the Sea Türkbükü (Cennet Koyu) $$$$ Lucca Bebek's evening Türkbükü dinner room on Cennet Koyu — fire-baked pizzas, wood-grilled seafood and an award-winning bar.
Mandarin Bar at Mandarin Oriental Bodrum Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Waterfront Sunset Elegant Mandarin Bar at Mandarin Oriental Bodrum Türkbükü (Cennet Koyu) $$$$ Cennet Koyu sunset cocktail terrace — the bay's most decorated bar with Haute Grandeur cocktail-menu wins across three consecutive seasons.
Memedof Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Waterfront Classic Family Run Memedof Bodrum $$$ Mehmet and Tülin Çuhadar's seafood room at Milta Marina; Bodrum's reference fish house since the early 2000s
Müptelal Cafe Editor's Pick Cafe Compare Modern Artistic Cozy Müptelal Gümüşlük $$$ Hilal Tayfun's Le Cordon Bleu kitchen above the village — brasserie, artisan bakery, French patisserie under one roof
OctoZen Bar Editor's Pick Bar Compare Sunset Waterfront Elegant OctoZen Torba $$$$ Susona's sunset seafood and sushi bar with Tipsy Crab — golden-hour deck on Torba Bay, DJ programme
Opaque by the Sea Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Intimate Kitchen Led Modern Opaque by the Sea Yahşi $$$$ Chef Nilay Lale's Khai Hotel signature room on the Yahşi pier, modern Aegean meets Asian technique.
Sait Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Classic Elegant Waterfront Sait Bodrum $$$$ The original Sait Yılmaz seafood room on Neyzen Tevfik; the Bodrum kitchen that built the Galataport and Yalıkavak branches
Suyah Pool Club Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Pool Club Fusion Elegant Suyah Pool Club Torba $$$$ Susona's pool-side Italian-Japanese kitchen under Kaan Yıldırım — sashimi, hand-rolled pasta, golden-hour DJ sets
Trattoria il Mandarino Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Garden Intimate Family Trattoria il Mandarino Bitez $$$ Melina Kırmacı's family-recipe Italian kitchen, set inside a mandarin and lemon orchard in inland Bitez.
Mezra Yalıkavak Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Intimate Modern Mezra Yalıkavak Yalıkavak $$$$ Serhat Doğramacı's farm-to-table tasting room — Türkiye's newest Michelin star and a Green Star for sustainability
Orfoz Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Intimate Elegant Waterfront Orfoz Bodrum $$$$ The Kumbahçe seafood room with a Michelin Green Star and one menu for the whole house each night
Ayla Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Fine Dining Elegant Intimate Ayla Türkbükü $$$$ Maçakızı's intimate eighteen-cover fine-dining counterpoint, by Aret Sahakyan — Turkish classics rewritten as memory and terroir
Kurochan by IOKI Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Fine Dining Destination Elegant Kurochan by IOKI Türkbükü $$$$ Mandarin Oriental's Japanese-Peruvian room — sushi, robata and sake on the resort's main beach, run by the IOKI Istanbul team
Malva Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Fine Dining Elegant Michelin Recognized Malva Torba $$$$ Susona's Michelin Guide-listed dining room — Gürkan Tümsek's micro-local Aegean kitchen, zero-waste, vegetable-forward
Limon Gümüşlük Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Romantic Elegant Classic Limon Gümüşlük Gümüşlük $$$ A bougainvillea-shaded hilltop terrace that has been the Gümüşlük sunset for two decades
Mimoza Bodrum Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Waterfront Elegant Classic Mimoza Bodrum Gümüşlük $$$$ Gümüşlük's defining seafood house, where Istanbul tables run two seatings on August nights
Aquarium Balık Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Classic Romantic Aquarium Balık Restaurant Gümüşlük $$$ İlknur and Cengiz Özbaşaran's family fish house on the Gümüşlük beach since 1992, recommended in New York Times
Bodrum Balıkçısı at Mandarin Oriental Restaurant Restaurant Compare Hotel Restaurant Waterfront Classic Bodrum Balıkçısı at Mandarin Oriental Türkbükü (Cennet Koyu) $$$$ Mandarin Oriental Paradise Bay's casual Turkish seafood room — fresh-catch counter, mezes and rakı above Blue Beach.
Casa Hermanas Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Compare Hotel Restaurant Waterfront Intimate Casa Hermanas Restaurant Torba $$$ Family-run beach hotel restaurant on Torba Bay — Mediterranean and Mexican kitchen under Chef Eduardo Luna
Dükkan No 10 Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Family Run Neighbourhood Dükkan No 10 Bodrum $$$ A small Adliye Sokak family kitchen, a meze tray and a chalkboard fish list — and a returning crowd that knows the names
Eda Balık Türkbükü Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Classic Family Run Eda Balık Türkbükü Türkbükü $$$ Türkbükü pier institution since 1970 — the bay's longest-running family-run fish house, candlelit dinner over the sea.
Flamm Bodrum Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Hotel Restaurant Kitchen Led Flamm Bodrum Türkbükü (Gölköy) $$$ 18-room Gölköy Bay seafront hotel and beach restaurant — Chef İsmail Ceylan's Mediterranean kitchen on a 150-year-old stone-house property.
Hadi Balık Bistro Restaurant Restaurant Compare Modern Bistro Cocktail Bar Hadi Balık Bistro Akyarlar $$$ Aspat Anthaven seafood bistro — the southern-bay alternative to the harbour fish rooms, garlic shrimp and shrimp bruschetta on a Google 4.9.
Itsumi Japanese Cuisine Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Kitchen Led Hotel Restaurant Itsumi Japanese Cuisine Gündoğan $$$$ Chef Horikoshi's Japanese kitchen inside Cape Bodrum, Vedat Milor's Bodrum sushi reference.
Laura Bodrum Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Chef Led Modern Laura Bodrum Yahşi $$$ Yahşi seafront chef-led beach-and-fine-dining room — Melisa Yördem, Paul Moisson-trained, daytime beach into evening restaurant.
Mirabelle Restaurant Restaurant Compare Bistro Elegant Late Night Mirabelle Torba $$$$ HYDE Bodrum's late-night French Riviera bistro — Côte d'Azur classics, DJ-driven dinner room
Okyanus Restaurant Gümüşlük Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Classic Rustic Okyanus Restaurant Gümüşlük Gümüşlük $$$ A Gümüşlük classic since 1990, fish-grill room on the Yalı Mevkii with the same logic three decades on
Piri Piri Pizza Restaurant Restaurant Compare Cozy Modern Artistic Piri Piri Pizza Gümüşlük $$ A sourdough pizzeria with hand-crafted gin-tonic on homemade tonic, the village's alternative dinner
Sake Wa Restaurant Restaurant Compare Modern Japanese Kitchen Led Sake Wa Akyarlar $$$$ The Anthaven Japanese kitchen — the only sushi-and-wok room on the south side of the peninsula, two beats away from the Akyarlar harbour.
Siesta Restaurant Gümüşlük Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Classic Romantic Siesta Restaurant Gümüşlük Gümüşlük $$$ A 1991-opened fish room on the iskele, navy-blue tables, white walls, the same family on the floor
Yaka Bodrum Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Kitchen Led New Opening Yaka Bodrum Türkbükü $$$ Chef Murat Deniz Temel and Kerem Tanel's 2025 Türkbükü opening — Aegean and Anatolian flavours with a sunset pier bar.
Yakamoz Restaurant Gümüşlük Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Classic Intimate Yakamoz Restaurant Gümüşlük Gümüşlük $$$ A direct-on-the-water Gümüşlük fish room with the boats and Rabbit Island a metre from the table
Akbalık Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Family Run Village Akbalık Restaurant Gündoğan $$$ Gündoğan's seaside fish house, run by Chef Ali Akbalık and the village's first reference for two decades
DAZE Türkbükü Bar Bar Compare Waterfront Music Forward Elegant DAZE Türkbükü Türkbükü $$$ No:81 Hotel's beach deck — a Türkbükü bay restaurant that turns into a proper night room
Denizden Restaurant Restaurant Compare Elegant Intimate Garden Denizden Bodrum $$$$ Mehmet Yalçınkaya's seafood room set inside the courtyard of the old Kocadon stone house
Dibeklihan Kültür ve Sanat Köyü Gallery Gallery Compare Historic Artistic Rustic Dibeklihan Kültür ve Sanat Köyü Ortakent $$ A restored stone-house art village on the Yakaköy ridge — galleries, ateliers, an Ottoman ethnographic room and a film bar
Gonca Balık Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Classic Intimate Gonca Balık Torba $$$ Torba's classic family fish house, on the Kilise bay since 1987 and open through the off-season
Hodan Yalıkavak Restaurant Restaurant Compare Elegant Waterfront Intimate Hodan Yalıkavak Yalıkavak $$$$ Çiğdem Seferoğlu's vegetable-led tasting room at the quiet Küdür Bay end of Yalıkavak
Kâtip Bar Bar Compare Intimate Garden Speakeasy Kâtip Bodrum $$$ A speakeasy cocktail bar set inside a 500-year-old stone house behind the marina, lemon tree in the garden
Köşem Balık Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Classic Family Köşem Balık Ortakent $$$ The mother-and-son Aegean fish house that has held the Yahşi-Ortakent waterfront since the marina was built
La Pasion Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Classic Romantic La Pasion Bodrum $$$ Bodrum's only real Spanish house — Neco's San Sebastián tapas on a 300-year-old stone street
Mehtap Balık Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Classic Family Mehtap Balık Akyarlar $$$ The Akyarlar harbour fish house run by the same family since 1986, with Kos a sunset away across the strait
Melengeç Türkbükü Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Waterfront Intimate Melengeç Türkbükü Türkbükü $$$ The Gümüşlük meze house's Türkbükü sister, on Liman Caddesi with thirty cold and hot starters
Miam Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Waterfront Elegant Miam Türkbükü $$$$ A long-running Türkbükü waterfront classic that runs serious seafood by night
Müdavim Restaurant Restaurant Compare Historic Intimate Live Music Müdavim Bodrum $$$ A meyhane built into Sadun Boro's old Bodrum house, with kanun on the terrace and the castle in view
Pitahaya Mutfak Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Waterfront Elegant Pitahaya Mutfak Türkbükü $$$ An intimate Türkbükü beachfront kitchen with a small chef-led menu that turns over with the season
Ristorante Italiano Trastevere Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Owner Run Authentic Ristorante Italiano Trastevere Bodrum $$$ A Roman chef's intimate trattoria in Kumbahçe — pasta alla genovese and a roof terrace over Bodrum bay
Tuti Restaurant Restaurant Compare Fine Dining Elegant Waterfront Tuti Bodrum $$$$ The Marmara's hilltop terrace — Hakan Süve's Mediterranean kitchen, Michelin Guide listed, four İncili pearls, and the city's best castle view
Yağhane Bodrum Bar Bar Compare Intimate Rustic Artistic Yağhane Bodrum Ortakent $$ A restored nineteenth-century olive-oil mill in Ortakent, run as a wine and coffee house with a working press
Yula Bodrum Bar Bar Compare Intimate Craft Cocktails Waterfront Yula Bodrum Bodrum $$$ A Çarşı-side cocktail bar with the castle in the frame and a list that takes itself seriously
Zuma Bodrum Restaurant Restaurant Compare Elegant Waterfront Trendy Zuma Bodrum Yalıkavak $$$$ The Knightsbridge izakaya's summer pier at the far end of Palmarina, robata and sashimi in the same register as London
Ali Rıza'nın Yeri Restaurant Restaurant Compare Rustic Waterfront Classic Ali Rıza'nın Yeri Gümüşlük $$$ The first table on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1962, still run by the family
Fener Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Waterfront Rustic Fener Restaurant Gümüşlük $$$ A quieter alternative on the Gümüşlük iskele, run by a fishing family
Garo's Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Intimate Waterfront Garo's Türkbükü $$$$ Türkbükü's Armenian-Aegean table, family-run and quietly precise
Kalamare Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Waterfront Intimate Kalamare Bodrum $$$ A long-running fish house at the western Bodrum harbour, with a serious raki sofrası
Mandalin Yalıkavak Restaurant Restaurant Compare Romantic Intimate Rustic Mandalin Yalıkavak Yalıkavak $$$ Garden-style Aegean cooking in an old village house behind the marina
Memedof Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Waterfront Intimate Memedof Bitez $$$ An understated Bitez seafront fish house that runs to the proper meyhane register