Intimate in Bodrum Town

A 24-room boutique on Omurca with a rooftop restaurant, two pools and the owners' own H&G organic wine

The Kumbahçe seafood room with a Michelin Green Star and one menu for the whole house each night

A small Adliye Sokak family kitchen, a meze tray and a chalkboard fish list, and a returning crowd that knows the names

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

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

Mehmet Yalçınkaya's seafood room set inside the courtyard of the old Kocadon stone house

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

Bodrum's only real Spanish house, Neco's San Sebastián tapas on a 300-year-old stone street

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

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

A Roman chef's intimate trattoria in Kumbahçe, pasta alla genovese and a roof terrace over Bodrum bay

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

A long-running fish house at the western Bodrum harbour, with a serious raki sofrası