Locali affini a Trattoria il Mandarino

Rita and Koko Fesçi's handmade-pasta room on Adliye Caddesi, the Bitez village pasta address since 2012.

Small rakı-balık room on Müskebi Caddesi, grilled octopus and prawn casserole as house signatures.

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

Köşebaşı's Bitez branch since 2022, year-round Adana-Tarsus kebap programme with a real garden.

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

Bib Gourmand 2026, Ümmühan Girgin's mandarin-garden meze house in the back lanes of Bitez

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

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

Bülent and Nazmiye's mandarin-grove kahvaltı house above Gündoğan, the unexpanded village breakfast, on principle

A small Adliye Sokak family kitchen, a meze tray and a chalkboard fish list, and a returning crowd that knows the names

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

The Yalıçiftlik fisherman's room, tables set directly in the shallows, the day's fish off the boat, the family Mustafa Bey runs to a fifteen-cover register.

MICHELIN Young Chef Award 2026, Duru Akgül's restored olive-oil mill on the Reşadiye Peninsula

Garden-style Aegean cooking in an old village house behind the marina

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

A four-decare mandarin orchard in old Bitez where a young couple set the Aegean breakfast bar

A second-generation Bitez breakfast house tucked into the citrus gardens behind the bay