Locali in Bodrum

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

Naru and Dereköy Lokantası team's all-day bistro-bar on Adliye Caddesi, DJ programme on weekends.

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

Tilkicik Bay aperitivo room, Mediterranean wood-deck format that opened 2022 and immediately found its register.

Bib Gourmand 2026, a chic all-day meze room on D-Marin Göcek with the yachts in the foreground and the Reşadiye mountains behind

A 5,000-bottle boutique winery rooted in the ancient Myndos terroir, Şiraz, Chardonnay, Öküzgözü

The 1992 bar street original, vinyl rock from the sixties through the nineties, run by the Subaşıoğlu family

Köşebaşı's Bitez branch since 2022, year-round Adana-Tarsus kebap programme with a real garden.

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

Chef Murat Deniz Temel and Kerem Tanel's 2025 Türkbükü opening, Aegean and Anatolian flavours with a sunset pier bar.

Bitez modern-Aegean kitchen, careful sourcing, calm room, the established middle of the bay.

Garden table overlooking Rabbit Island, Aegean meze and grilled meat, sunset choreography.

Palmarina pontoon import of the New York / Saint-Tropez French-Mediterranean room, rosé and table-side theatre.

Yalıkavak all-day beach-to-cocktail arc, the accessible version of the chapter, without the marina markup.

The Adana / Tarsus kebab institution's Gündoğan summer outpost, the cove's reliable meat night.

Yalıkavak Palmarina bistro that flips to a live-music room on Friday and Saturday, curated bookings, kitchen-anchored.

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

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

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

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

A smartly run, design-led beach club tucked between Yalıkavak and Gümüşlük

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