Best Places for Date Night in Bodrum

Tolgar Mireli's veg-led Aegean kitchen dissolving into a Gümüşlük hillside garden

A candlelit garden dinner up in Müskebi, well off the marina strip

Chef Zişan Altınçaba's seasonal garden lokanta in the Dereköy hills

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

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

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

Garden-style Aegean cooking in an old village house behind the marina

Türkbükü's Armenian-Aegean table, family-run and quietly precise

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

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

The Knightsbridge izakaya's summer pier at the far end of Palmarina, robata and sashimi in the same register as London

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

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

A long-running Türkbükü waterfront classic that runs serious seafood by night

The Kumbahçe seafood room with a Michelin Green Star and one menu for the whole house each night

Mehmet Yalçınkaya's seafood room set inside the courtyard of the old Kocadon stone house

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

The mother-and-son Aegean fish house that has held the Yahşi-Ortakent waterfront since the marina was built

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