Kâtip Bar Bar Compare Intimate Garden Speakeasy Kâtip Bodrum $$$ A speakeasy cocktail bar set inside a 500-year-old stone house behind the marina, lemon tree in the garden Same category
DAZE Türkbükü Bar Bar Compare Waterfront Music Forward Elegant DAZE Türkbükü Türkbükü $$$ No:81 Hotel's beach deck — a Türkbükü bay restaurant that turns into a proper night room Same category
Galia Bar Bar Compare Waterfront See & Be Seen Music Forward Galia Türkbükü $$$$ Kuum Hotel's beach restaurant on the Türkbükü deck — sunset table, late-night dance floor Same category
Yula Yalıkavak Bar Bar Compare Village Waterfront Cocktail Program Yula Yalıkavak Yalıkavak $$$ The Yalıkavak village-waterfront cousin of the Bodrum-merkez bar — smaller room, harbour-facing, late-shift cocktails. Same category
El Fuego Bar Bar Compare Modern Dj Program Trendy El Fuego Bitez $$$ Bitez village Mexican cantina from İrem Gürses, fire-grilled meats and handmade tortillas with a DJ programme. Same category
Mavi Bar Bar Bar Compare Historic Live Music Intimate Mavi Bar Bodrum $$ The 1983 stone-house jazz bar where Yeni Türkü and Erkan Oğur played before anyone had heard of them Same category
İxir Bodrum Bar Bar Compare Cocktail Program Marina Side Bartender Led İxir Bodrum Bodrum Town $$$ Neyzen Tevfik cocktail room run by two ex-Lucca Bebek bartenders — the chapter's working answer west of the castle. Same category
Kule Rock City Bar Bar Compare Live Music Rock Late Night Kule Rock City Bodrum $$ The Barlar Sokağı rock bar that has held the same stage and the same rotating live band line-up since 2006 Same category
Kalamare Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Waterfront Intimate Kalamare Bodrum $$$ A long-running fish house at the western Bodrum harbour, with a serious raki sofrası Similar vibe
Yağhane Bodrum Bar Bar Compare Intimate Rustic Artistic Yağhane Bodrum Ortakent $$ A restored nineteenth-century olive-oil mill in Ortakent, run as a wine and coffee house with a working press Same category
Ali Rıza'nın Yeri Restaurant Restaurant Compare Rustic Waterfront Classic Ali Rıza'nın Yeri Gümüşlük $$$ The first table on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1962, still run by the family Similar vibe
Fener Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Waterfront Rustic Fener Restaurant Gümüşlük $$$ A quieter alternative on the Gümüşlük iskele, run by a fishing family Similar vibe
Memedof Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Waterfront Intimate Memedof Bitez $$$ An understated Bitez seafront fish house that runs to the proper meyhane register Similar vibe
Pitahaya Mutfak Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Waterfront Elegant Pitahaya Mutfak Türkbükü $$$ An intimate Türkbükü beachfront kitchen with a small chef-led menu that turns over with the season Similar vibe
Melengeç Türkbükü Restaurant Restaurant Compare Classic Waterfront Intimate Melengeç Türkbükü Türkbükü $$$ The Gümüşlük meze house's Türkbükü sister, on Liman Caddesi with thirty cold and hot starters Similar vibe
Mehtap Balık Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Classic Family Mehtap Balık Akyarlar $$$ The Akyarlar harbour fish house run by the same family since 1986, with Kos a sunset away across the strait Similar vibe
Gonca Balık Restaurant Restaurant Compare Waterfront Classic Intimate Gonca Balık Torba $$$ Torba's classic family fish house, on the Kilise bay since 1987 and open through the off-season Similar vibe
Scorpios Bodrum Nightclub Editor's Pick Nightclub Compare See & Be Seen Music Forward Waterfront Scorpios Bodrum Türkbükü $$$$ The Mykonos institution's first international outpost — sunset ritual, beach house kitchen, real programme Similar vibe
Adamik Bar Bar Compare Dive Bar Music Forward Speakeasy Adamik Bodrum $$ An old-Bodrum back-alley bar on Banka Sokak — rock and 80s, signature mandarin Sandoz Same category
Wu Yalıkavak Nightclub Nightclub Compare See & Be Seen Music Forward Trendy Wu Yalıkavak Yalıkavak $$$$ Palmarina's pan-Asian sushi bar that turns into a 600-cap dance floor after midnight Similar vibe