Casual in Bodrum

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

Konacık's MICHELIN-recommended esnaf lokantası since 1999, the tray-line everyone from the marina mechanic to İstanbullu second-home owners works through.

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.

Built on Yalı Mevkii, a classic Gündoğan beach cafe known for its olive-oil dishes and homemade mezes.

Müskebi Caddesi beach club opened 2023, bohemian daytime room on the Yahşi sand with cabanas, long pier and a kitchen running into the evening.

The Bayazhan family's Antep kitchen brought to Konacık in 2021, with a stone-oven katmer line that runs year-round.

Cafer Karakaya's fish counter and beachfront room on the Yahşi shore, TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice 2025.

Konacık's Atatürk Bulvarı pide-and-kebap room with a buffet kahvaltı for the residential weekend, stone-oven pide and Manisa köfte, open until three.

Konacık's butcher-and-ocakbaşı pairing on Adliye Caddesi, dry-age cabinet, copper grill, the room the peninsula's chefs send their cooks for chops on a day off.

Blue Flag beach and restaurant on Yahşi cove, stone-oven pizzas and a boutique room with a generous garden.

The Eskiçeşme köfte counter the marina taxi drivers still queue for, three decades into the same recipe

Akyarlar seafront fish room on Yalı Caddesi, a six-meze rakı-balık table at a price ceiling well below the bay's named rooms.

Bodrum's reference for Belgian-style pot mussels, opposite the Gündoğan harbour.

Gündoğan's stone-oven pizzeria; Avni Usta's thin crust and the village neighbourhood address.

Long-running rakı-balık and beach room on the Ortakent-Yahşi waterfront, open from eight in the morning to midnight.

The Aktur Tatil Sitesi residents' beach, daytime canteen, evening live music, the Bitez compound's working room.

Mantı, çiğbörek and gözleme on the Bitez village square, the breakfast room a second house cannot do without.

Yahşi-side display-on-ice fish counter, value, freshness, the working version of the Ortakent harbour template.

Bitez seafront daytime room, shallow-water bay, kitchen-led lunch, the right answer for a long midday.

Bitez seafront beach club since 1993, the bay's longest-running daytime room, residential rather than spectacle.