Locali affini a Adamik

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

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

The 1992 bar street original, vinyl rock from the sixties through the nineties, run by the Subaşıoğlu family

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

A Çarşı-side cocktail bar with the castle in the frame and a list that takes itself seriously

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

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

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

Gündoğan's salt-and-sand original since 2000 — windsurf school by day, neighbourhood bar with live jazz at night

A restored nineteenth-century olive-oil mill in Ortakent, run as a wine and coffee house with a working press

The Yalıkavak village-waterfront cousin of the Bodrum-merkez bar — smaller room, harbour-facing, late-shift cocktails.

Yalıkavak Palmarina bistro that flips to a live-music room on Friday and Saturday — curated bookings, kitchen-anchored.

Naru and Dereköy Lokantası team's all-day bistro-bar on Adliye Caddesi, DJ programme on weekends.

Bodrum's pre-Cumhuriyet-rush institution, on the Neyzen Tevfik harbour since 1979

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

The peninsula's only proper third-wave roastery, between Bodrum-merkez and Bitez

Joey Ghazal's Dubai-born brasserie lands on a hilltop above Maxx Royal — raw bar, prime steak and a 360° view of the Aegean

Summer outpost of the Arnavutköy bartender-led original — Yalıkavak village side, sunset-anchored, serious cocktails.