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.

Mehmet and Tülin Çuhadar's seafood room at Milta Marina; Bodrum's reference fish house since the early 2000s

MICHELIN Guide modern kebab — the most ambitious kitchen in Bitez, kebab as fine-dining grammar.

Tilkicik Bay aperitivo room — Mediterranean wood-deck format that opened 2022 and immediately found its register.

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

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 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

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

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.

Garden table overlooking Rabbit Island — Aegean meze and grilled meat, sunset choreography.

Palmarina pontoon import of the New York / Saint-Tropez French-Mediterranean room — rosé and table-side theatre.

Year-round Mediterranean room in Bitez — minimalist, kitchen-first, the off-season anchor the bay needed.

Yalıkavak all-day beach-to-cocktail arc — the accessible version of the chapter, without the marina markup.

Summer outpost of the Arnavutköy bartender-led original — Yalıkavak village side, sunset-anchored, serious cocktails.

Small-plates and sushi room in Türkbükü — the modern street-food-meets-cocktail format the bay was missing.

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.

The Yalıkavak village-waterfront cousin of the Bodrum-merkez bar — smaller room, harbour-facing, late-shift cocktails.

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

Bodrum's only real Spanish house — Neco's San Sebastián tapas on a 300-year-old stone street

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 meyhane built into Sadun Boro's old Bodrum house, with kanun on the terrace and the castle in view

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