Locali affini a Köşebaşı

Melina Kırmacı's family-recipe Italian kitchen, set inside a mandarin and lemon orchard in inland Bitez.

Bitez modern-Aegean kitchen — careful sourcing, calm room, the established middle of the bay.

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

The Adana / Tarsus kebab institution's Gündoğan summer outpost — the cove's reliable meat night.

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

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

Year-round Mediterranean room in Bitez — minimalist, kitchen-first, the off-season anchor the bay needed.

İlknur and Cengiz Özbaşaran's family fish house on the Gümüşlük beach since 1992, recommended in New York Times

One of Gümüşlük's oldest tables, 160 seats with a direct sightline to Tavşan Adası and the sunset

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

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

A meyhane built into Sadun Boro's old Bodrum house, with kanun on the terrace and the castle in view

A small Adliye Sokak family kitchen, a meze tray and a chalkboard fish list — and a returning crowd that knows the names

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

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