Classic Restaurant in Bodrum

The Cumhuriyet trattoria that has held the Michelin Bib Gourmand for Neapolitan pizza and seafood risotto since 2013

Erhan Usta's fish house on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1983, still the chef's name on the door

Konacık's MICHELIN-recommended esnaf lokantası since 1999, the tray-line everyone from the marina mechanic to İstanbullu second-home owners works through.

Mehmet and Tülin Çuhadar's seafood room at Milta Marina; Bodrum's reference fish house since the early 2000s

The 1987 family pansiyon on the Yalıçiftlik strand, with a sea-front dining room the chapter reads as Çiftlik's straight-line meze house.

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

Bitez seafront kitchen next to the Yalı mosque, the bay's long-running all-day room.

A bougainvillea-shaded hilltop terrace that has been the Gümüşlük sunset for two decades

The original Türkbükü beach hotel that defined Aegean restraint for two generations

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