Locali affini a Sail Loft Surf Shack

No:81 Hotel's beach deck, a Türkbükü bay restaurant that turns into a proper night room

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

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.

Bodrum's reference for Belgian-style pot mussels, opposite the Gündoğan harbour.

An all-day garden cafe across from the Gündoğan marina, coffee, tapas and live cello in a bohemian Aegean room

The Eskiçeşme köfte counter the marina taxi drivers still queue for, three decades into the same recipe

Akyarlar seafront fish room on Yalı Caddesi, a six-meze rakı-balık table at a price ceiling well below the bay's named rooms.

HYDE Bodrum's poolside Aegean bar, small-plate tapas, cocktails, weekend DJ residents

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

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

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

Cennet Koyu sunset cocktail terrace, the bay's most decorated bar with Haute Grandeur cocktail-menu wins across three consecutive seasons.

Susona's sunset seafood and sushi bar with Tipsy Crab, golden-hour deck on Torba Bay, DJ programme

Built on Yalı Mevkii, a classic Gündoğan beach cafe known for its olive-oil dishes and homemade mezes.

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

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

A stone-house seafood room on Güvercinlik's quiet bay, Bib Gourmand 2026 and the reason to drive past Bodrum

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