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.

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