Waterfront in Bodrum

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

Mehmet and Tülin Çuhadar's seafood room at Milta Marina; Bodrum's reference fish house since the early 2000s

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

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

Türkbükü pier institution since 1970, the bay's longest-running family-run fish house, candlelit dinner over the sea.

18-room Gölköy Bay seafront hotel and beach restaurant, Chef İsmail Ceylan's Mediterranean kitchen on a 150-year-old stone-house property.

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

No:81 Hotel's beach deck, a Türkbükü bay restaurant that turns into a proper night room

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

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 Çarşı-side cocktail bar with the castle in the frame and a list that takes itself seriously

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

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