Locali affini a Mandarin Cafe Gümüşlük

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

A French-trained patisserie on Yalıkavak's Atatürk Caddesi, with the peninsula's most serious viennoiserie

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

Hilal Tayfun's Le Cordon Bleu kitchen above the village, brasserie, artisan bakery, French patisserie under one roof

A small garden breakfast in Farilya's inner lanes, running on homemade jams and wood-oven börek.

The Yalıkavak breakfast institution's Türkbükü branch, with garden tables and its own jetty

Year-round Bitez village brasserie with a mandarin-tree garden, breakfast through dinner.

Old Bodrum house off the Sandıma road, the peninsula's reference village-breakfast room.

The peninsula's only proper third-wave roastery, between Bodrum-merkez and Bitez

Roger Lange's German-trained sourdough bakery and café on Caferpaşa, with curated Munchbox grazing trays

The Adliye Sokak bookshop café where the floor-to-ceiling shelves lean on art, philosophy and sociology

Tülay Toker's small French patisserie behind Gümüşlük, viennoiserie taken seriously