La Pasion

Chef-owner Nejmettin 'Neco' Kılıç trained in San Sebastián and has run La Pasion since 2008 in a restored 300-year-old stone building on the alley that locals call Spanish Street, off Atatürk Caddesi in old-town Bodrum. The kitchen still works without the costume tricks the rest of the country attaches to Spanish food: pintxos at the bar, jamón cut to order, paella properly socarrat, a sherry list that runs past the manzanilla. The peninsula's only Spanish room that an İstanbullu who knows San Sebastián or Madrid wouldn't apologise for.