Waterfront in Bodrum Town

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

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

The original Sait Yılmaz seafood room on Neyzen Tevfik; the Bodrum kitchen that built the Galataport and Yalıkavak branches

The Kumbahçe seafood room with a Michelin Green Star and one menu for the whole house each night

Paros's iconic Greek seafood house, transplanted to Caresse's private beach by Athenian chef Dimitrios Nikolis

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

An 18th-century-Ottoman meyhane on Cumhuriyet Caddesi with a terrace over the bay, Bib Gourmand 2026

Wolfgang Puck's Aegean outpost, the smoked salmon pizza and California-Italian playbook, recalibrated for Bodrum

Joey Ghazal's Dubai-born brasserie lands on a hilltop above Maxx Royal, raw bar, prime steak and a 360° view of the Aegean

The Marmara's hilltop terrace, Hakan Süve's Mediterranean kitchen, Michelin Guide listed, four İncili pearls, and the city's best castle view

A Çarşı-side cocktail bar with the castle in the frame and a list that takes itself seriously

A long-running fish house at the western Bodrum harbour, with a serious raki sofrası

The old D-Marin Bodrum members' room, open to non-members for lunch on the western harbour

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