Locali affini a Siesta Restaurant Gümüşlük

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

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

A quieter alternative on the Gümüşlük iskele, run by a fishing family

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

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

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

Gümüşlük's defining seafood house, where Istanbul tables run two seatings on August nights

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

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

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

The first table on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1962, still run by the family

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

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.