Bar in Bodrum

Sunset Hospitality's Yalıkavak Marina Hotel beach club, Mediterranean-Japanese kitchen with a sundeck programme.

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

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

HYDE Bodrum's poolside Aegean bar — small-plate tapas, cocktails, weekend DJ residents

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

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

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

Kuum Hotel's beach restaurant on the Türkbükü deck — sunset table, late-night dance floor

A speakeasy cocktail bar set inside a 500-year-old stone house behind the marina, lemon tree in the garden

Gündoğan's salt-and-sand original since 2000 — windsurf school by day, neighbourhood bar with live jazz at night

A restored nineteenth-century olive-oil mill in Ortakent, run as a wine and coffee house with a working press

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