Adresses in Bodrum

Gault&Millau Türkiye Best Seafood 2024-2025-2026, the Istanbul fish house's chef-driven summer outpost on Sess Türkbükü pier.

Casa Dell'Arte's seaside Italian dining room — wood-fired fish, fresh pasta, art-hotel setting

A hillside fine-dining room above the village, live music after sunset, world-cuisine card

Chef Uğur Filiz's open-fire fish room with the panoramic seat and the underwater lights at the tables

Erhan Usta's fish house on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1983, still the chef's name on the door

Cennet Koyu sunset cocktail terrace — the bay's most decorated bar with Haute Grandeur cocktail-menu wins across three consecutive seasons.

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

Chef Nilay Lale's Khai Hotel signature room on the Yahşi pier, modern Aegean meets Asian technique.

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

Susona's pool-side Italian-Japanese kitchen under Kaan Yıldırım — sashimi, hand-rolled pasta, golden-hour DJ sets

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

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

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

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

Family-run beach hotel restaurant on Torba Bay — Mediterranean and Mexican kitchen under Chef Eduardo Luna

A small Adliye Sokak family kitchen, a meze tray and a chalkboard fish list — and a returning crowd that knows the names

Türkbükü pier institution since 1970 — the bay's longest-running family-run fish house, candlelit dinner over the sea.

18-room Gölköy Bay seafront hotel and beach restaurant — Chef İsmail Ceylan's Mediterranean kitchen on a 150-year-old stone-house property.

Aspat Anthaven seafood bistro — the southern-bay alternative to the harbour fish rooms, garlic shrimp and shrimp bruschetta on a Google 4.9.

Yahşi seafront chef-led beach-and-fine-dining room — Melisa Yördem, Paul Moisson-trained, daytime beach into evening restaurant.

A Gümüşlük classic since 1990, fish-grill room on the Yalı Mevkii with the same logic three decades on

A sourdough pizzeria with hand-crafted gin-tonic on homemade tonic, the village's alternative dinner

The Anthaven Japanese kitchen — the only sushi-and-wok room on the south side of the peninsula, two beats away from the Akyarlar harbour.

A 1991-opened fish room on the iskele, navy-blue tables, white walls, the same family on the floor

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

A direct-on-the-water Gümüşlük fish room with the boats and Rabbit Island a metre from the table

Gündoğan's seaside fish house, run by Chef Ali Akbalık and the village's first reference for two decades

No:81 Hotel's beach deck — a Türkbükü bay restaurant that turns into a proper night room

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

A restored stone-house art village on the Yakaköy ridge — galleries, ateliers, an Ottoman ethnographic room and a film bar

Torba's classic family fish house, on the Kilise bay since 1987 and open through the off-season

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

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

The Akyarlar harbour fish house run by the same family since 1986, with Kos a sunset away across the strait

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A quieter alternative on the Gümüşlük iskele, run by a fishing family

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

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

An understated Bitez seafront fish house that runs to the proper meyhane register