Venues similar to Körfez Bar

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

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

Bodrum's pre-Cumhuriyet-rush institution, on the Neyzen Tevfik harbour since 1979

An old-Bodrum back-alley bar on Banka Sokak, rock and 80s, signature mandarin Sandoz

Bitez village Mexican cantina from İrem Gürses, fire-grilled meats and handmade tortillas with a DJ programme.

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

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

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

A restored nineteenth-century olive-oil mill in Ortakent, run as a wine and coffee house with a working press

No:81 Hotel's beach deck, a Türkbükü bay restaurant that turns into a proper night room

Kuum Hotel's beach restaurant on the Türkbükü deck, sunset table, late-night dance floor

The Yalıkavak village-waterfront cousin of the Bodrum-merkez bar, smaller room, harbour-facing, late-shift cocktails.

Yalıkavak Palmarina bistro that flips to a live-music room on Friday and Saturday, curated bookings, kitchen-anchored.

The Eskiçeşme köfte counter the marina taxi drivers still queue for, three decades into the same recipe

Naru and Dereköy Lokantası team's all-day bistro-bar on Adliye Caddesi, DJ programme on weekends.

Neyzen Tevfik cocktail room run by two ex-Lucca Bebek bartenders, the chapter's working answer west of the castle.

Gündoğan's salt-and-sand original since 2000, windsurf school by day, neighbourhood bar with live jazz at night

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

An İzmir kokoreç ustası that opened in 1974 and brought the trade to Yalıkavak in 2013, the peninsula's serious answer

Summer outpost of the Arnavutköy bartender-led original, Yalıkavak village side, sunset-anchored, serious cocktails.