Bodrum Peninsula
This hotel's beachfront bar-restaurant serves a range of dishes, including köfte, seafood and local speciality çökertme (meat fried with thin french fries…
Must-see restaurants in South Aegean
Datça & Bozburun Peninsulas
Founded in 1979, this harbourside eatery called the 'Little House' serves Mediterranean and seafood dishes like ahtapot güveç (octopus casserole). Also…
Marmaris
Bustling, non-touristy lokanta ideal for authentic, fine-value gözleme (stuffed flatbreads) as well as ready-made prepared etli yemek (meat dishes) and…
South Aegean
Overlooking the temple, this friendly modern cafe offers a simple snack menu of sandwiches, salads and cakes. It also has an espresso machine for that…
Selçuk
Welcoming, atmospheric little restaurant where you can feast in a covered patio or tiny street terrace on mezes like stuffed peppers, then graduate to…
Bodrum Peninsula
Local favourite Garo's is pricey, but popular for its mezes. The owner-chef serves seafood like dağ kekikli kalamar izgara (mountain thyme grilled…
South Aegean
On the north side of the temple compound, Kamacı serves kebaps, köfte, fresh fish and better-value mezes. Try the perfectly cooked grilled sea bass. Don't…
Kuşadası
This kebap booth just up from Bar St caters with great aplomb to (mostly) well-mannered Turks and (often) drunken foreign louts, especially when the clubs…
Datça & Bozburun Peninsulas
Set in an old stone house on the seafront, Aurora is serious about mezes and seafood. Some 50 mezes are produced every day, along with a multitude of fish…
South Aegean
A rustic restaurant under shady foliage up the steps from the main road into town and owned by a friendly fruit-farming family. Offers a good range of…
Bodrum Peninsula
Established in 1972, this waterfront classic is run by a local fishing clan whose boats float nearby. With eight different types of rakı (aniseed liquor)…
Selçuk
A pocket-sized outpost of Turkey's southeast located in a pedestrianised street near the aqueduct, Master Ramazan's kebapçı (kebap eatery) serves the best…
Selçuk
Under vines next to a 14th-century mosque, 'Yaşar's Place' is good for a simple lunch of izgara (grills): köfte and çöp şiş (şiş kebap served rolled in a…
Bodrum Peninsula
Quirky, slightly ramshackle but fun seafront resto where all dishes are prepared with love (and cold-pressed olive oil). There's a tiny kitchen, so be…
South Aegean
Occupies an atmospheric old townhouse with a rear terrace and walled garden west of the large Kurşunlu Cami. The menu includes köfte, seafood, tandır …
Datça & Bozburun Peninsulas
This terrace restaurant beneath a vine-clad arbour serves good mezes and grilled-meat dishes, including house speciality bademli köfte (meatballs with…
Bodrum Town
This bar-restaurant serves fine food in arty surrounds, with its packed harbourfront tables creating a busy bistro atmosphere. Dishes include good salads,…
Bodrum Town
Across from the eponymous mosque, this favourite hole-in-the-wall does tasty kebaps on homemade bread, including the İskender (döner lamb on a bed of pide…
Datça & Bozburun Peninsulas
The 'Oil Lamp' is a family-run restaurant in the thick of things on the waterfront. There's an excellent meze selection, fine salads and lots of seafood,…
Bodrum Peninsula
Always busy, this waterfront restaurant is a good place to take a break from seafood; options include deli and cheese plates, lamb chops and lamb shank…
Datça & Bozburun Peninsulas
Family-owned place where all food is freshly prepared daily, located in simple premises: look out for the purple-and-white gingham tablecloths on a small…
Datça & Bozburun Peninsulas
Enjoying pole position on the harbourside, this decades-old restaurant has one of the best terraces in town. Dozens of different mezes are prepared every…
Datça & Bozburun Peninsulas
Fresh fish at honest prices is served at this place run by Serkan (a fisherman who owns the Yilmaz Pansiyon to the south of the marina); the grilled…
Marmaris
With the floodlit castle directly behind and the waterfront directly ahead, this Italian-cum-international restaurant certainly has a fine location. On…
Bodrum Town
Located opposite the marina, this trad meyhane (tavern) serves fresh mezes and fish to a rakı-raddled clientele. It's renowned for its seafood. Book ahead…
Kuşadası
For a filling, authentic meal, this daytime only lokanta (eatery serving ready-made food) in the heart of the Old Town is great. Serves up some freshly…
Marmaris
One of the more creative eateries on the waterfront, offering filling grills and grilled fish. The lunch menu features lighter meals, including steak…
South Aegean
This buzzing bar-resto in a historic structure serves up fine fish and seafood, hot and cold mezes and the raki-sipping regulars love the live folk music…
Datça & Bozburun Peninsulas
A fine hotel cafe-restaurant with lovely terrace for al fresco dining. The chef is Italian, so this is the perfect spot for a bowl of pasta (or espresso);…
Kuşadası
Great pide (Turkish-style pizza), lahmacun (Arabic-style pizza, ₺6) and kebaps at this eatery; try a beytı kebab (₺28) with minced lamb and chargrilled…
Kuşadası
Marina restaurant that's the perfect spot for a memorable meal, with vistas over the sea over to Kuşadası castle. Good for Turkish or Western breakfasts,…
Bodrum Peninsula
This popular fish restaurant follows the peninsula custom of dining right on the sand, with a delicious range of home-cooked mezes and fish dishes to…
Kuşadası
Next to the little park and city tea garden, this is one of Kuşadası's more popular waterfront fish eateries, with great sunset sea views and good quality…
Datça & Bozburun Peninsulas
This hotel restaurant, 500m or so south of the marina, has a lovely waterside deck for languid seafood lunches and dinners. You'll find good grilled meats…
South Aegean
Enjoy fresh fish and views of the Iasos ruins (turning your back to the blight that is the Güllük holiday village to the south) at this friendly…
Bodrum Town
This inexpensive open-fronted kebapçı (kebap shop) near the entrance to the fish market serves meat feasts, including tasty İskender and fiery Adana…
Bodrum Peninsula
With cheery orange and blue tables strung along the sand and looking to the ebbing waves, this friendly place is Torba's spot for a meal of mezes and…
Bodrum Peninsula
This seafood restaurant is as popular for its waterfront location with its incomparable views westward as its fresh fish dishes and mezes.
Bodrum Town
Offers the best ice cream in town, with authentic flavours including walnut and coconut. Also serves good espresso coffee.
Bodrum Town
Bodrum's fish market (sometimes called manavlar for the fruit stands at the entrance to this small network of back alleys) offers a direct dining…
