Places in Bodrum

Gault&Millau Türkiye Best Seafood 2024-2025-2026, the Istanbul fish house's chef-driven summer outpost on Sess Türkbükü pier.

Italian dining room at Mandarin Oriental's Paradise Bay — Chef Fabio De Paolis, Haute Grandeur 2018 Best Mediterranean and Italian Cuisine in Europe.

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

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

Chef Uğur Filiz's open-fire fish room with the panoramic seat and the underwater lights at the tables

Lucca Bebek's evening Türkbükü dinner room on Cennet Koyu — fire-baked pizzas, wood-grilled seafood and an award-winning bar.

Cennet Koyu sunset cocktail terrace — the bay's most decorated bar with Haute Grandeur cocktail-menu wins across three consecutive seasons.

Susona's sunset seafood and sushi bar with Tipsy Crab — golden-hour deck on Torba Bay, DJ programme

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

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

Susona's pool-side Italian-Japanese kitchen under Kaan Yıldırım — sashimi, hand-rolled pasta, golden-hour DJ sets

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

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

Maçakızı's intimate eighteen-cover fine-dining counterpoint, by Aret Sahakyan — Turkish classics rewritten as memory and terroir

Mandarin Oriental's Japanese-Peruvian room — sushi, robata and sake on the resort's main beach, run by the IOKI Istanbul team

Susona's Michelin Guide-listed dining room — Gürkan Tümsek's micro-local Aegean kitchen, zero-waste, vegetable-forward

Gümüşlük's defining seafood house, where Istanbul tables run two seatings on August nights

Mandarin Oriental Paradise Bay's casual Turkish seafood room — fresh-catch counter, mezes and rakı above Blue Beach.

Chef Horikoshi's Japanese kitchen inside Cape Bodrum, Vedat Milor's Bodrum sushi reference.

HYDE Bodrum's late-night French Riviera bistro — Côte d'Azur classics, DJ-driven dinner room

The Anthaven Japanese kitchen — the only sushi-and-wok room on the south side of the peninsula, two beats away from the Akyarlar harbour.

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

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

A long-running Türkbükü waterfront classic that runs serious seafood by night

The Marmara's hilltop terrace — Hakan Süve's Mediterranean kitchen, Michelin Guide listed, four İncili pearls, and the city's best castle view

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

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