Venues similar to Garo's

Türkbükü's oldest fish house, on the iskele since 1997 and still in family hands

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

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

Casa Dell'Arte's seaside Italian dining room, wood-fired fish, fresh pasta, art-hotel setting

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

An intimate Türkbükü beachfront kitchen with a small chef-led menu that turns over with the season

The Gümüşlük meze house's Türkbükü sister, on Liman Caddesi with thirty cold and hot starters

A long-running Türkbükü waterfront classic that runs serious seafood by night

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

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

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

The Akyarlar harbour fish house run by the same family since 1986, with Kos a sunset away across the strait

Torba's classic family fish house, on the Kilise bay since 1987 and open through the off-season

Çiğdem Seferoğlu's vegetable-led tasting room at the quiet Küdür Bay end of Yalıkavak

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

Gault&Millau Türkiye Best Seafood 2024-2025-2026, the Istanbul fish house's chef-driven summer outpost on Sess Türkbükü pier.

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

A Gümüşlük classic since 1990, fish-grill room on the Yalı Mevkii with the same logic three decades on