Romantic Restaurant in Bodrum

A hillside fine-dining room above the village, live music after sunset, world-cuisine card

Chef Uğur Filiz's open-fire fish room with the panoramic seat and the underwater lights at the tables

Erhan Usta's fish house on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1983, still the chef's name on the door

A bougainvillea-shaded hilltop terrace that has been the Gümüşlük sunset for two decades

Gümüşlük's defining seafood house, where Istanbul tables run two seatings on August nights

İlknur and Cengiz Özbaşaran's family fish house on the Gümüşlük beach since 1992, recommended in New York Times

Türkbükü pier institution since 1970, the bay's longest-running family-run fish house, candlelit dinner over the sea.

One of Gümüşlük's oldest tables, 160 seats with a direct sightline to Tavşan Adası and the sunset

A 1991-opened fish room on the iskele, navy-blue tables, white walls, the same family on the floor

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

The Gümüşlük meze house's Türkbükü sister, on Liman Caddesi with thirty cold and hot starters

An intimate Türkbükü beachfront kitchen with a small chef-led menu that turns over with the season

A Roman chef's intimate trattoria in Kumbahçe, pasta alla genovese and a roof terrace over Bodrum bay

A long-running Türkbükü waterfront table reached by private boat from the iskele

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