Intimate in Bodrum

Casa Dell'Arte's seaside Italian dining room, wood-fired fish, fresh pasta, art-hotel setting

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

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

Family-run beach hotel restaurant on Torba Bay, Mediterranean and Mexican kitchen under Chef Eduardo Luna

A small Adliye Sokak family kitchen, a meze tray and a chalkboard fish list, and a returning crowd that knows the names

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

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

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

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

The Gümüşlük meze house's Türkbükü sister, on Liman Caddesi with thirty cold and hot starters

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

A long-running fish house at the western Bodrum harbour, with a serious raki sofrası

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