Venues similar to Mandalin Yalıkavak

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

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

Serhat Doğramacı's farm-to-table tasting room — Türkiye's newest Michelin star and a Green Star for sustainability

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

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

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

A quieter alternative on the Gümüşlük iskele, run by a fishing family

An understated Bitez seafront fish house that runs to the proper meyhane register

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

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

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

A Roman chef's intimate trattoria in Kumbahçe — pasta alla genovese and a roof terrace over Bodrum bay

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

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

Tilkicik Cove's original fish house, on its own jetty since 1993 and still family-run

Yalıkavak's original family fish kitchen, opened in the early 1980s and still on the same corner

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

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

Türkbükü pier institution since 1970 — the bay's longest-running family-run fish house, candlelit dinner over the sea.

A long-running Türkbükü waterfront table reached by private boat from the iskele