Classic in Bodrum

Built on Yalı Mevkii, a classic Gündoğan beach cafe known for its olive-oil dishes and homemade mezes.

Konacık's Atatürk Bulvarı pide-and-kebap room with a buffet kahvaltı for the residential weekend, stone-oven pide and Manisa köfte, open until three.

The 1992 bar street original, vinyl rock from the sixties through the nineties, run by the Subaşıoğlu family

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

Akyarlar seafront fish room on Yalı Caddesi, a six-meze rakı-balık table at a price ceiling well below the bay's named rooms.

Year-round Bitez village brasserie with a mandarin-tree garden, breakfast through dinner.

The 1983 stone-house jazz bar where Yeni Türkü and Erkan Oğur played before anyone had heard of them

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