Waterfront in Yalıkavak

Sunset Hospitality's Yalıkavak Marina Hotel beach club, Mediterranean-Japanese kitchen with a sundeck programme.

MICHELIN Guide-listed boutique resort over Küdür Bay, 32 rooms, three restaurants, The Red Balloon and Hodan on the gastronomy side.

Vasilchuk Brothers' Pan-Asian restaurant-and-show on the Yalıkavak Marina seafront, sister room of Birds Moscow.

Allium Bodrum Resort's signature room, modern Aegean over the Çökertme cliff with the Greek-islands horizon.

Novikov Group's first Türkiye outpost at Yalıkavak Marina, Asian-Mediterranean seafood with the brand's display-case grammar.

OPA's Yalıkavak Marina outpost, chef Tim Newton's shared-plate Greek room with a sunset music programme.

White Rabbit Family's Mediterrasian seafood room at Yalıkavak Marina, brand-chef Vladimir Mukhin's Türkiye outpost.

Twenty-eight-year-old Yalıkavak beach village, capped capacity, bohemian-mature, the anti-marina antidote.

The most controlled, design-led beach club operation on the Yalıkavak side

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

D-Ream Group's Yalıkavak Marina nightclub-restaurant, tropical-modern room running Asian and South American fusion.

METT Hotel beach club above Haremtan Cove, sundeck cabanas, grilled fish, occasional live-music nights.

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

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

Çiğdem Seferoğlu's vegetable-led tasting room at the quiet Küdür Bay end of Yalıkavak

Tilkicik Cove's original fish house, on its own jetty since 1993 and still family-run

The Yalıkavak marina's reference fish house, Aegean classics, ice-displayed catch, Michelin Guide listed

Palmarina's pan-Asian sushi bar that turns into a 600-cap dance floor after midnight

The Knightsbridge izakaya's summer pier at the far end of Palmarina, robata and sashimi in the same register as London

A smartly run, design-led beach club tucked between Yalıkavak and Gümüşlük