Venues similar to Kule Rock City

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

The 1983 stone-house jazz bar where Yeni Türkü and Erkan Oğur played before anyone had heard of them

Bitez village Mexican cantina from İrem Gürses, fire-grilled meats and handmade tortillas with a DJ programme.

A speakeasy cocktail bar set inside a 500-year-old stone house behind the marina, lemon tree in the garden

A Çarşı-side cocktail bar with the castle in the frame and a list that takes itself seriously

A restored nineteenth-century olive-oil mill in Ortakent, run as a wine and coffee house with a working press

An old-Bodrum back-alley bar on Banka Sokak, rock and 80s, signature mandarin Sandoz

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

No:81 Hotel's beach deck, a Türkbükü bay restaurant that turns into a proper night room

Kuum Hotel's beach restaurant on the Türkbükü deck, sunset table, late-night dance floor

The Yalıkavak village-waterfront cousin of the Bodrum-merkez bar, smaller room, harbour-facing, late-shift cocktails.

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

Neyzen Tevfik cocktail room run by two ex-Lucca Bebek bartenders, the chapter's working answer west of the castle.

Gündoğan's salt-and-sand original since 2000, windsurf school by day, neighbourhood bar with live jazz at night

Summer outpost of the Arnavutköy bartender-led original, Yalıkavak village side, sunset-anchored, serious cocktails.