Le viste più belle di Bodrum

Haremtan hillside above Bodrum-merkez — MICHELIN-listed kitchen with a sunset cocktail program that runs its own shift.

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

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

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

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

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

The 1983 stone-house jazz bar where Yeni Türkü and Erkan Oğur played before anyone had heard of them

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

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

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

An 18th-century-Ottoman meyhane on Cumhuriyet Caddesi with a terrace over the bay — Bib Gourmand 2026

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

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

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

Michelin-starred Italian by Alfredo Russo at Maxx Royal — homemade pasta and restraint, in the resort's most serious room

Wolfgang Puck's Aegean outpost — the smoked salmon pizza and California-Italian playbook, recalibrated for Bodrum

Paris's caviar institution opens its first-ever resort outpost on the Aegean — Russian-French repertoire, a tin and a spoon

Joey Ghazal's Dubai-born brasserie lands on a hilltop above Maxx Royal — raw bar, prime steak and a 360° view of the Aegean

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

The Marmara's hilltop terrace — Hakan Süve's Mediterranean kitchen, Michelin Guide listed, four İncili pearls, and the city's best castle view

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

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