Venues similar to Itzá Bodrum

Beach-restaurant opened in Küçükbük by Danış Ulaş in 2021; Mediterranean cooking and a natural cove.

Chef Murat Deniz Temel and Kerem Tanel's 2025 Türkbükü opening — Aegean and Anatolian flavours with a sunset pier bar.

Blue Flag beach and restaurant on Yahşi cove, stone-oven pizzas and a boutique room with a generous garden.

Bib Gourmand 2026 — a chic all-day meze room on D-Marin Göcek with the yachts in the foreground and the Reşadiye mountains behind

Bitez seafront beach club since 1993 — the bay's longest-running daytime room, residential rather than spectacle.

A smartly run, design-led beach club tucked between Yalıkavak and Gümüşlük

The old D-Marin Bodrum members' room, open to non-members for lunch on the western harbour

Twenty-eight-year-old Yalıkavak beach village — capped capacity, bohemian-mature, the anti-marina antidote.

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

The quiet fifteen-room Türkbükü alternative — small cove, slow service, no DJ.