Locali affini a Maride Cafe and Patisserie

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

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

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

A small Türkbükü artisan bakery doing serious sourdough on a side street the second-homers have learned to find

Garden-set Van-style serpme kahvaltı on Bergamut Caddesi, the eastern Anatolian breakfast that Bodrum was missing.

An all-day garden cafe across from the Gündoğan marina, coffee, tapas and live cello in a bohemian Aegean room

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

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

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

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

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