Classic in Bodrum

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

Mandarin Oriental Paradise Bay's casual Turkish seafood room — fresh-catch counter, mezes and rakı above Blue Beach.

The Eskiçeşme köfte counter the marina taxi drivers still queue for, three decades into the same recipe

Mandarin Oriental's all-day Turkish room — the resort's renowned breakfast service plus a season-driven Anatolian dinner card.

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

A meyhane built into Sadun Boro's old Bodrum house, with kanun on the terrace and the castle in view