Rustic in Bodrum

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

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

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

The mother-and-son Aegean fish house that has held the Yahşi-Ortakent waterfront since the marina was built

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

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

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