Plekken in Bodrum

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

Naru and Dereköy Lokantası team's all-day bistro-bar on Adliye Caddesi, DJ programme on weekends.

Bib Gourmand 2026, a chic all-day meze room on D-Marin Göcek with the yachts in the foreground and the Reşadiye mountains behind

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

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

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

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

The Eskiçeşme köfte counter the marina taxi drivers still queue for, three decades into the same recipe

Chef Murat Deniz Temel and Kerem Tanel's 2025 Türkbükü opening, Aegean and Anatolian flavours with a sunset pier bar.

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

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

Yalıkavak Palmarina bistro that flips to a live-music room on Friday and Saturday, curated bookings, kitchen-anchored.

An old-Bodrum back-alley bar on Banka Sokak, rock and 80s, signature mandarin Sandoz

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

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

Tilkicik Cove's original fish house, on its own jetty since 1993 and still family-run

A smartly run, design-led beach club tucked between Yalıkavak and Gümüşlük

Bodrum's pre-Cumhuriyet-rush institution, on the Neyzen Tevfik harbour since 1979