Rustic in Bodrum

The Kızılağaç köy kahvaltısı address on the Yalıçiftlik road since 2015, with eggs from the garden coop and a kitchen run by the family that owns the land.

The 1987 family pansiyon on the Yalıçiftlik strand, with a sea-front dining room the chapter reads as Çiftlik's straight-line meze house.

Torba village's family-run Aegean and Turkish kitchen, twenty-plus years on Atatürk Caddesi, manti and çiğ börek

Village breakfast café known across the peninsula for its homemade jams and poğaça

The Kızılağaç köy garden with a kendin-pişir kendin-ye mangal pit, a stone-oven kahvaltı line and a small zoo for the children, fifteen years on the same road.

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

Small rakı-balık room on Müskebi Caddesi, grilled octopus and prawn casserole as house signatures.

The Alparslan family's clean-and-quiet pansiyon on Yalıçiftlik Caddesi, three generations on the strand, café meals on the deck, no destination noise.

The İhtiyar brothers' 1995 ice-cream counter on Bitez square, before it was a national name

A fourteen-decare orchard kahvaltı house on the Göltürkbükü inland line, run on farm logic

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

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

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

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

Gündoğan's village house breakfast since 1999, named for the wood-burning kuzine in the back garden

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

The morning corner of Gümüşlük, where coffee arrives before the boats unload

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

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