Intimate in Bodrum

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

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

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

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

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