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

Yahşi seafront hotel restaurant — Tripadvisor #2 in Ortakent, Travelers' Choice, steak-and-meze on the sand with Friday-night live music.

Bitez seafront daytime room — shallow-water bay, kitchen-led lunch, the right answer for a long midday.

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

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

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

Bitez seafront beach club since 1993 — the bay's longest-running daytime room, residential rather than spectacle.

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 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

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

The old D-Marin Bodrum members' room, open to non-members for lunch on the western harbour

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

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

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

Güvercinlik's quieter waterside fish house, on the same Sahilyolu address since 1985

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

Akyarlar harbour fish house on Yalı Caddesi, the village's #2-ranked seafront room with live music nights and full meze counter.