Family Friendly in Bodrum

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

MICHELIN Guide-listed boutique resort over Küdür Bay, 32 rooms, three restaurants, The Red Balloon and Hodan on the gastronomy side.

Konacık's MICHELIN-recommended esnaf lokantası since 1999, the tray-line everyone from the marina mechanic to İstanbullu second-home owners works through.

The Kızılağaç köy kahvaltısı address on the Yalıçiftlik road since 2015, with eggs from the garden coop and a kitchen run by the family that owns the land.

The 1987 family pansiyon on the Yalıçiftlik strand, with a sea-front dining room the chapter reads as Çiftlik's straight-line meze house.

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.

İlknur and Cengiz Özbaşaran's family fish house on the Gümüşlük beach since 1992, recommended in New York Times

A small garden breakfast in Farilya's inner lanes, running on homemade jams and wood-oven börek.

Built on Yalı Mevkii, a classic Gündoğan beach cafe known for its olive-oil dishes and homemade mezes.

The Bayazhan family's Antep kitchen brought to Konacık in 2021, with a stone-oven katmer line that runs year-round.

Konacık's Atatürk Bulvarı pide-and-kebap room with a buffet kahvaltı for the residential weekend, stone-oven pide and Manisa köfte, open until three.

Konacık's butcher-and-ocakbaşı pairing on Adliye Caddesi, dry-age cabinet, copper grill, the room the peninsula's chefs send their cooks for chops on a day off.

Köşebaşı's Bitez branch since 2022, year-round Adana-Tarsus kebap programme with a real garden.

Village breakfast café known across the peninsula for its homemade jams and poğaça

The Kızılağaç köy garden with a kendin-pişir kendin-ye mangal pit, a stone-oven kahvaltı line and a small zoo for the children, fifteen years on the same road.

Bodrum's reference for Belgian-style pot mussels, opposite the Gündoğan harbour.

One of Gümüşlük's oldest tables, 160 seats with a direct sightline to Tavşan Adası and the sunset

Gündoğan's stone-oven pizzeria; Avni Usta's thin crust and the village neighbourhood address.

Mandarin Oriental's all-day Turkish room, the resort's renowned breakfast service plus a season-driven Anatolian dinner card.

Year-round Bitez village brasserie with a mandarin-tree garden, breakfast through dinner.

Yahşi seafront hotel restaurant, Tripadvisor #2 in Ortakent, Travelers' Choice, steak-and-meze on the sand with Friday-night live music.

The Alparslan family's clean-and-quiet pansiyon on Yalıçiftlik Caddesi, three generations on the strand, café meals on the deck, no destination noise.

Bitez modern-Aegean kitchen, careful sourcing, calm room, the established middle of the bay.

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

Mantı, çiğbörek and gözleme on the Bitez village square, the breakfast room a second house cannot do without.

The Adana / Tarsus kebab institution's Gündoğan summer outpost, the cove's reliable meat night.

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

Bitez seafront beach club since 1993, the bay's longest-running daytime room, residential rather than spectacle.

The İhtiyar brothers' 1995 ice-cream counter on Bitez square, before it was a national name