Locali affini a Yula Bodrum

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

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.

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

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

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

The Barlar Sokağı rock bar that has held the same stage and the same rotating live band line-up since 2006

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

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

An intimate Türkbükü beachfront kitchen with a small chef-led menu that turns over with the season

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

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

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

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

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

Palmarina's pan-Asian sushi bar that turns into a 600-cap dance floor after midnight