Adresses in Bodrum

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

Naru and Dereköy Lokantası team's all-day bistro-bar on Adliye Caddesi, DJ programme on weekends.

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

MICHELIN Guide modern kebab, the most ambitious kitchen in Bitez, kebab as fine-dining grammar.

Bib Gourmand 2026, a chic all-day meze room on D-Marin Göcek with the yachts in the foreground and the Reşadiye mountains behind

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

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

A 5,000-bottle boutique winery rooted in the ancient Myndos terroir, Şiraz, Chardonnay, Öküzgözü

Köşebaşı's Bitez branch since 2022, year-round Adana-Tarsus kebap programme with a real garden.

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

Bitez modern-Aegean kitchen, careful sourcing, calm room, the established middle of the bay.

Year-round Mediterranean room in Bitez, minimalist, kitchen-first, the off-season anchor the bay needed.

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

Summer outpost of the Arnavutköy bartender-led original, Yalıkavak village side, sunset-anchored, serious cocktails.

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

The Adana / Tarsus kebab institution's Gündoğan summer outpost, the cove's reliable meat night.

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

Yalıkavak's original family fish kitchen, opened in the early 1980s and still on the same corner

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

Tilkicik Cove's original fish house, on its own jetty since 1993 and still family-run

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