Locali affini a Casa Hermanas Restaurant

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

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

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

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

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

Akyarlar harbour boutique-hotel kitchen on Liman Caddesi, Cretan-paste mussel rice and grilled fish at the village register, with rooms upstairs.

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

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

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

Gündoğan's seaside fish house, run by Chef Ali Akbalık and the village's first reference for two decades

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

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

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

18-room Gölköy Bay seafront hotel and beach restaurant, Chef İsmail Ceylan's Mediterranean kitchen on a 150-year-old stone-house property.

Türkbükü pier institution since 1970, the bay's longest-running family-run fish house, candlelit dinner over the sea.

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

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