Lugares in Bodrum

Vasilchuk Brothers' Pan-Asian restaurant-and-show on the Yalıkavak Marina seafront, sister room of Birds Moscow.

OPA's Yalıkavak Marina outpost, chef Tim Newton's shared-plate Greek room with a sunset music programme.

The Asarlık franchise of the global Buddha-Bar Beach brand, pan-Asian-Mediterranean beach club inside Caresse Marriott.

The Mykonos institution's first international outpost, sunset ritual, beach house kitchen, real programme

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

D-Ream Group's Yalıkavak Marina nightclub-restaurant, tropical-modern room running Asian and South American fusion.

The 1992 bar street original, vinyl rock from the sixties through the nineties, run by the Subaşıoğlu family

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

Chef Murat Deniz Temel and Kerem Tanel's 2025 Türkbükü opening, Aegean and Anatolian flavours with a sunset pier bar.

Yalıkavak all-day beach-to-cocktail arc, the accessible version of the chapter, without the marina markup.

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

Small-plates and sushi room in Türkbükü, the modern street-food-meets-cocktail format the bay was missing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Palmarina's pan-Asian sushi bar that turns into a 600-cap dance floor after midnight

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

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