Locali affini a Yağhane Bodrum

A restored stone-house art village on the Yakaköy ridge — galleries, ateliers, an Ottoman ethnographic room and a film bar

A sourdough pizzeria with hand-crafted gin-tonic on homemade tonic, the village's alternative dinner

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

A speakeasy cocktail bar set inside a 500-year-old stone house behind the marina, lemon tree in the garden

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

The Barlar Sokağı rock bar that has held the same stage and the same rotating live band line-up since 2006

Yalıkavak's original family fish kitchen, opened in the early 1980s and still on the same corner

Bitez village Mexican cantina from İrem Gürses, fire-grilled meats and handmade tortillas with a DJ programme.

A 5,000-bottle boutique winery rooted in the ancient Myndos terroir — Şiraz, Chardonnay, Öküzgözü

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

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

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

Serhat Doğramacı's farm-to-table tasting room — Türkiye's newest Michelin star and a Green Star for sustainability

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

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

Tülay Toker's small French patisserie behind Gümüşlük — viennoiserie taken seriously

The 1992 bar street original, vinyl rock from the sixties through the nineties, run by the Subaşıoğlu family

Melina Kırmacı's family-recipe Italian kitchen, set inside a mandarin and lemon orchard in inland Bitez.