Intimate in Bodrum

Melina Kırmacı's family-recipe Italian kitchen, set inside a mandarin and lemon orchard in inland Bitez.

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

Yahşi boutique beach-hotel restaurant on Asma Sokak, Aegean kitchen, blue-flag private beach, six-to-seven happy hour with DJ.

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

Small rakı-balık room on Müskebi Caddesi, grilled octopus and prawn casserole as house signatures.

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

Yalıkavak's original family fish kitchen, opened in the early 1980s and still on the same corner

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

Tilkicik Cove's original fish house, on its own jetty since 1993 and still family-run

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