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Bitez Yalısı beachfront kitchen and beach club, kitchen-led seafood from morning to late.

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

Yahşi boutique beach-hotel restaurant on Asma Sokak — Aegean kitchen, blue-flag private beach, six-to-seven happy hour with DJ.

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

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

The Aktur Tatil Sitesi residents' beach — daytime canteen, evening live music, the Bitez compound's working room.

Twenty-eight-year-old Yalıkavak beach village — capped capacity, bohemian-mature, the anti-marina antidote.

Bitez modern-Aegean kitchen — careful sourcing, calm room, the established middle of the bay.

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

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

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

Family-run beach hotel restaurant on Torba Bay — Mediterranean and Mexican kitchen under Chef Eduardo Luna

Pomelan beach compound bundling beach club, brasserie, balıkçı and a jazz room under chef Cüneyt Kırsan.

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

Right on the water in Gündoğan, the village reference that runs fish and beach service together.

Yahşi seafront fine-dining beach restaurant since 2014 — Aegean steakhouse-and-seafood with Travelers' Choice and a clear view of Kos.

METT Hotel beach club above Haremtan Cove — sundeck cabanas, grilled fish, occasional live-music nights.

The Adana / Tarsus kebab institution's Gündoğan summer outpost — the cove's reliable meat night.

Müskebi Caddesi beach club opened 2023 — bohemian daytime room on the Yahşi sand with cabanas, long pier and a kitchen running into the evening.