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.

Tilkicik Bay aperitivo room — Mediterranean wood-deck format that opened 2022 and immediately found its register.

Bitez seafront daytime room — shallow-water bay, kitchen-led lunch, the right answer for a long midday.

Müskebi Caddesi beach club opened 2023 — bohemian daytime room on the Yahşi sand with cabanas, long pier and a kitchen running into the evening.

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 Aktur Tatil Sitesi residents' beach — daytime canteen, evening live music, the Bitez compound's working room.

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

Yahşi seafront chef-led beach-and-fine-dining room — Melisa Yördem, Paul Moisson-trained, daytime beach into evening restaurant.

Bitez seafront kitchen next to the Yalı mosque, the bay's long-running all-day room.

Bitez Yalısı beachfront kitchen and beach club, kitchen-led seafood from morning to late.

Long-running rakı-balık and beach room on the Ortakent-Yahşi waterfront, open from eight in the morning to midnight.

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