Restaurant in Bodrum

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

The original Sait Yılmaz seafood room on Neyzen Tevfik; the Bodrum kitchen that built the Galataport and Yalıkavak branches

Chef Nilay Lale's Khai Hotel signature room on the Yahşi pier, modern Aegean meets Asian technique.

The Kumbahçe seafood room with a Michelin Green Star and one menu for the whole house each night

A bougainvillea-shaded hilltop terrace that has been the Gümüşlük sunset for two decades

Chef Zişan Altınçaba's seasonal garden lokanta in the Dereköy hills

Tolgar Mireli's veg-led Aegean kitchen dissolving into a Gümüşlük hillside garden

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

A Gümüşlük classic since 1990, fish-grill room on the Yalı Mevkii with the same logic three decades on

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

Chef Murat Deniz Temel and Kerem Tanel's 2025 Türkbükü opening, Aegean and Anatolian flavours with a sunset pier bar.

A direct-on-the-water Gümüşlük fish room with the boats and Rabbit Island a metre from the table

Gündoğan's seaside fish house, run by Chef Ali Akbalık and the village's first reference for two decades

Mehmet Yalçınkaya's seafood room set inside the courtyard of the old Kocadon stone house

Torba's classic family fish house, on the Kilise bay since 1987 and open through the off-season

The mother-and-son Aegean fish house that has held the Yahşi-Ortakent waterfront since the marina was built

The Akyarlar harbour fish house run by the same family since 1986, with Kos a sunset away across the strait

An intimate Türkbükü beachfront kitchen with a small chef-led menu that turns over with the season

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

The first table on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1962, still run by the family

Türkbükü's Armenian-Aegean table, family-run and quietly precise

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