Venues similar to Akbalık Restaurant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The mother-and-son Aegean fish house that has held the Yahşi-Ortakent waterfront since the marina was built

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

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

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

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

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