Places in Bodrum Town

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

A 24-room boutique on Omurca with a rooftop restaurant, two pools and the owners' own H&G organic wine

Mehmet and Tülin Çuhadar's seafood room at Milta Marina; Bodrum's reference fish house since the early 2000s

The original Sait Yılmaz seafood room on Neyzen Tevfik; the Bodrum kitchen that built the Galataport and Yalıkavak branches

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

Paros's iconic Greek seafood house, transplanted to Caresse's private beach by Athenian chef Dimitrios Nikolis

Roger Lange's German-trained sourdough bakery and café on Caferpaşa, with curated Munchbox grazing trays

The Adliye Sokak bookshop café where the floor-to-ceiling shelves lean on art, philosophy and sociology

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

The Eskiçeşme köfte counter the marina taxi drivers still queue for, three decades into the same recipe

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

The peninsula's only proper third-wave roastery, between Bodrum-merkez and Bitez

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

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

A meyhane built into Sadun Boro's old Bodrum house, with kanun on the terrace and the castle in view

The peninsula's serious grill, dry-aged steak, kebabs and a wood-fire ocakbaşı that has held the Bib Gourmand three years running

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

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

The old D-Marin Bodrum members' room, open to non-members for lunch on the western harbour

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