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The first table on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1962, still run by the family

A quieter alternative on the Gümüşlük iskele, run by a fishing family

An understated Bitez seafront fish house that runs to the proper meyhane register

A long-running fish house at the western Bodrum harbour, with a serious raki sofrası

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

Torba's classic family fish house, on the Kilise bay since 1987 and open through the off-season

A Gümüşlük classic since 1990, fish-grill room on the Yalı Mevkii with the same logic three decades on

Small rakı-balık room on Müskebi Caddesi, grilled octopus and prawn casserole as house signatures.

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

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

The Gümüşlük meze house's Türkbükü sister, on Liman Caddesi with thirty cold and hot starters

The mother-and-son Aegean fish house that has held the Yahşi-Ortakent waterfront since the marina was built

The Akyarlar harbour fish house run by the same family since 1986, with Kos a sunset away across the strait

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

A direct-on-the-water Gümüşlük fish room with the boats and Rabbit Island a metre from the table

Bitez Yalısı beachfront kitchen and beach club, kitchen-led seafood from morning to late.

Türkbükü's oldest fish house, on the iskele since 1997 and still in family hands

Mehmet Çuhadar's classic Aegean fish house, Gölköy 2001, Yalıkavak branch since 2007.

A bougainvillea-shaded hilltop terrace that has been the Gümüşlük sunset for two decades