Waterfront in Bodrum

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

Gault&Millau Türkiye Best Seafood 2024-2025-2026, the Istanbul fish house's chef-driven summer outpost on Sess Türkbükü pier.

Italian dining room at Mandarin Oriental's Paradise Bay, Chef Fabio De Paolis, Haute Grandeur 2018 Best Mediterranean and Italian Cuisine in Europe.

Sunset Hospitality's Yalıkavak Marina Hotel beach club, Mediterranean-Japanese kitchen with a sundeck programme.

MICHELIN Guide-listed boutique resort over Küdür Bay, 32 rooms, three restaurants, The Red Balloon and Hodan on the gastronomy side.

Vasilchuk Brothers' Pan-Asian restaurant-and-show on the Yalıkavak Marina seafront, sister room of Birds Moscow.

Pomelan beach compound bundling beach club, brasserie, balıkçı and a jazz room under chef Cüneyt Kırsan.

Allium Bodrum Resort's signature room, modern Aegean over the Çökertme cliff with the Greek-islands horizon.

Casa Dell'Arte's seaside Italian dining room, wood-fired fish, fresh pasta, art-hotel setting

Chef Uğur Filiz's open-fire fish room with the panoramic seat and the underwater lights at the tables

Erhan Usta's fish house on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1983, still the chef's name on the door

Yahşi's new-generation beach-restaurant room, bohemian-chic evening kitchen signed by chef Melisa Yördem.

Lucca Bebek's evening Türkbükü dinner room on Cennet Koyu, fire-baked pizzas, wood-grilled seafood and an award-winning bar.

Cennet Koyu sunset cocktail terrace, the bay's most decorated bar with Haute Grandeur cocktail-menu wins across three consecutive seasons.

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

Novikov Group's first Türkiye outpost at Yalıkavak Marina, Asian-Mediterranean seafood with the brand's display-case grammar.

Susona's sunset seafood and sushi bar with Tipsy Crab, golden-hour deck on Torba Bay, DJ programme

OPA's Yalıkavak Marina outpost, chef Tim Newton's shared-plate Greek room with a sunset music programme.

Chef Nilay Lale's Khai Hotel signature room on the Yahşi pier, modern Aegean meets Asian technique.

The 1987 family pansiyon on the Yalıçiftlik strand, with a sea-front dining room the chapter reads as Çiftlik's straight-line meze house.

The original Sait Yılmaz seafood room on Neyzen Tevfik; the Bodrum kitchen that built the Galataport and Yalıkavak branches

White Rabbit Family's Mediterrasian seafood room at Yalıkavak Marina, brand-chef Vladimir Mukhin's Türkiye outpost.

Bitez seafront kitchen next to the Yalı mosque, the bay's long-running all-day room.

Çökertme Caddesi steak-and-beach room since 2025, dry-age beef and lamb sourced from Afyon and Balıkesir producers.

The Asarlık franchise of the global Buddha-Bar Beach brand, pan-Asian-Mediterranean beach club inside Caresse Marriott.

Modern-minimalist 52-room Türkbükü cove, quiet, food-forward, the not-Macakizi answer in the same bay.

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

All-day Gümüşlük operation, small hotel, kitchen-led seafood, a wine list the cove was missing.

Twenty-eight-year-old Yalıkavak beach village, capped capacity, bohemian-mature, the anti-marina antidote.

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

The Kumbahçe seafood room with a Michelin Green Star and one menu for the whole house each night

Paros's iconic Greek seafood house, transplanted to Caresse's private beach by Athenian chef Dimitrios Nikolis

The London-Vegas Cantonese house running its tenth global outpost on Cennet Bay

Mandarin Oriental's Japanese-Peruvian room, sushi, robata and sake on the resort's main beach, run by the IOKI Istanbul team

Susona's Michelin Guide-listed dining room, Gürkan Tümsek's micro-local Aegean kitchen, zero-waste, vegetable-forward

Zuma's sibling brand at Mandarin Oriental, robatayaki, sushi and Aegean cliff views, returning May 2026

The Mykonos institution's first international outpost, sunset ritual, beach house kitchen, real programme

The original Türkbükü beach hotel that defined Aegean restraint for two generations

Gümüşlük's defining seafood house, where Istanbul tables run two seatings on August nights

The most controlled, design-led beach club operation on the Yalıkavak side