Cafe in Bodrum

Old Bodrum house off the Sandıma road, the peninsula's reference village-breakfast room.

A small garden breakfast in Farilya's inner lanes, running on homemade jams and wood-oven börek.

Roger Lange's German-trained sourdough bakery and café on Caferpaşa, with curated Munchbox grazing trays

Scandinavian-named specialty coffee shop on Bitez's Kanuni Sultan Süleyman line, the bay's third-wave corner.

The Adliye Sokak bookshop café where the floor-to-ceiling shelves lean on art, philosophy and sociology

Village breakfast café known across the peninsula for its homemade jams and poğaça

Year-round Bitez village brasserie with a mandarin-tree garden, breakfast through dinner.

Garden-set Van-style serpme kahvaltı on Bergamut Caddesi, the eastern Anatolian breakfast that Bodrum was missing.

The Yalıkavak breakfast institution's Türkbükü branch, with garden tables and its own jetty

The İhtiyar brothers' 1995 ice-cream counter on Bitez square, before it was a national name

A French-trained patisserie on Yalıkavak's Atatürk Caddesi, with the peninsula's most serious viennoiserie

A small Türkbükü artisan bakery doing serious sourdough on a side street the second-homers have learned to find

The peninsula's only proper third-wave roastery, between Bodrum-merkez and Bitez

An all-day garden cafe across from the Gündoğan marina, coffee, tapas and live cello in a bohemian Aegean room

A garden patisserie in Bitez, run on sourdough bread and almond croissants

The morning corner of Gümüşlük, where coffee arrives before the boats unload