Intimate in Bodrum

Melina Kırmacı's family-recipe Italian kitchen, set inside a mandarin and lemon orchard in inland Bitez.

Rita and Koko Fesçi's handmade-pasta room on Adliye Caddesi, the Bitez village pasta address since 2012.

Family-run beach hotel restaurant on Torba Bay, Mediterranean and Mexican kitchen under Chef Eduardo Luna

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

Yahşi boutique beach-hotel restaurant on Asma Sokak, Aegean kitchen, blue-flag private beach, six-to-seven happy hour with DJ.

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.

A sourdough pizzeria with hand-crafted gin-tonic on homemade tonic, the village's alternative dinner

Akyarlar harbour boutique-hotel kitchen on Liman Caddesi, Cretan-paste mussel rice and grilled fish at the village register, with rooms upstairs.

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

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

Türkbükü's oldest fish house, on the iskele since 1997 and still in family hands

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 Gümüşlük meze house's Türkbükü sister, on Liman Caddesi with thirty cold and hot starters

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

Bülent and Nazmiye's mandarin-grove kahvaltı house above Gündoğan, the unexpanded village breakfast, on principle

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

Türkbükü's Armenian-Aegean table, family-run and quietly precise

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