Venues similar to Sia Eli

A candlelit garden dinner up in Müskebi, well off the marina strip

Chef Zişan Altınçaba's seasonal garden lokanta in the Dereköy hills

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

Melina Kırmacı's family-recipe Italian kitchen, set inside a mandarin and lemon orchard in inland Bitez.

A Bitez garden meyhane, owner-run with a daily meze table under citrus trees

The Adana / Tarsus kebab institution's Gündoğan summer outpost, the cove's reliable meat night.

Köşebaşı's Bitez branch since 2022, year-round Adana-Tarsus kebap programme with a real garden.

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

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

The first table on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1962, still run by the family

Bib Gourmand 2026, Ümmühan Girgin's mandarin-garden meze house in the back lanes of Bitez

A geography-of-Türkiye meze and kebab room under the mandarin trees, Bib Gourmand 2025-2026

MICHELIN Young Chef Award 2026, Duru Akgül's restored olive-oil mill on the Reşadiye Peninsula

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

İlknur and Cengiz Özbaşaran's family fish house on the Gümüşlük beach since 1992, recommended in New York Times

A direct-on-the-water Gümüşlük fish room with the boats and Rabbit Island a metre from the table