Venues similar to El Fuego

Naru and Dereköy Lokantası team's all-day bistro-bar on Adliye Caddesi, DJ programme on weekends.

The 1983 stone-house jazz bar where Yeni Türkü and Erkan Oğur played before anyone had heard of them

MICHELIN Guide modern kebab, the most ambitious kitchen in Bitez, kebab as fine-dining grammar.

The Barlar Sokağı rock bar that has held the same stage and the same rotating live band line-up since 2006

Small-plates and sushi room in Türkbükü, the modern street-food-meets-cocktail format the bay was missing.

The Yalıkavak village-waterfront cousin of the Bodrum-merkez bar, smaller room, harbour-facing, late-shift cocktails.

Yalıkavak Palmarina bistro that flips to a live-music room on Friday and Saturday, curated bookings, kitchen-anchored.

Bitez modern-Aegean kitchen, careful sourcing, calm room, the established middle of the bay.

Summer outpost of the Arnavutköy bartender-led original, Yalıkavak village side, sunset-anchored, serious cocktails.

The 1992 bar street original, vinyl rock from the sixties through the nineties, run by the Subaşıoğlu family

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

An old-Bodrum back-alley bar on Banka Sokak, rock and 80s, signature mandarin Sandoz