Places in Istanbul

The corridor's literary meyhane, keeping a guest-book tradition since 1967.

The turquoise-tiled Karaköy institution, lokanta by day, meyhane by night, Bib Gourmand 2026.

Kyoto-born specialty coffee chain's first Turkish flagship

Chic seafood destination with panoramic Bosphorus views

Heritage seafood since 1952

Three-story culinary destination with Bosphorus views and art gallery

Legendary profiteroles since 1944

Turkish streetwear luxury making global waves

Legendary Turkish coffee since 1967

Asian side's specialty coffee destination since 2014

Expert-led carpet education and collection

Salt Bae's original flagship steakhouse

Authentic Greek taverna with Bosphorus views and Thessaloniki flavors

Free cultural programming in Ottoman bank building

Creative hub in classic-elegant Palazzo Corpi

Electronic music festivals on the Black Sea

Former Ottoman bank transformed into boutique luxury

18,000 sqm of cutting-edge contemporary art

Turkey's premier luxury department store

Farm-to-table excellence in the countryside

All-day organic breakfast in a historic Erenkoy mansion

Sophisticated cocktails from the Paolina creators

Salt Bae's authentic Greek cuisine at Park Hyatt Macka Palas

All-day brunch haven with Bosphorus panoramas

TV chef Arda Turkmen's rooftop meyhane with Golden Horn views

Michelin Bib Gourmand seafood on the Asian side

Istanbul's original wine bar championing Turkish wines

Global fusion brasserie by Happy Group on Bağdat Caddesi

Iconic Turkish luxury brand since 1934

Historic 1914 wine house with garden oasis

The çarşı's oldest working meyhane, pouring since 1974, topik in the case and fasıl kept upstairs.

Koşuyolu's Aegean meyhane, a proper meze cabinet and a neighborhood that keeps it to itself.

Efkan Kara's Aegean taverna in a Şaşkınbakkal cul-de-sac, meze-first and unbothered by fashion.

Pouring under the Cumhuriyet name since 1923, a hundred mezes a day in the middle of Balık Pazarı.

Morgans Original in a restored warehouse

All-day venue that flips into a cocktail bar with workshops and guest DJs after sunset.

Upper-tier fish house on Operatör Cemil Topuzlu

Historic Russian restaurant where Ataturk and Agatha Christie dined

Late-2025 waterfront bar with a beachfront terrace

Cihangir rooftop institution since 1993 with a real Bosphorus view

Brick-lined snug pub with live blues, rock and jazz seven nights a week

1890 Greek-captain meyhane on the Golden Horn shore

Industrial-chic grill house with Bib Gourmand recognition

Gile chef's tribute to Marmaris roots, Gault & Millau 2026 Best Street Food

No-menu fish market dining by Galata Bridge

Karaköy's benchmark grill, Suadiye rooftop edition

Over-water fish-meyhane on the Baltalimanı seam.

Café by day, a loose Arnavutköy bar with DJ nights by dark, the most informal room on the strip.

Michelin-noted bistro where even the inspectors mentioned the young hip crowd

Bar side of Four Seasons' Bosphorus seafood room, terrace to the water, Mediterranean pours

Ex-Periferi chef's own kitchen: bold menu, intimate room

Michelin-recognized chef kitchen and cocktail bar with rotating art

Bosphorus garden classic since 1997, brunch by day, full bar and cocktails after dark

Seasonal kitchen and an opinionated Turkish wine cellar on the quiet Mühürdar slope, adults-only, no menus in seven languages

Turkish viticulture by the glass at the Tünel mouth, 85 boutique producers, no foreign-name flex

Old City's finest fish restaurant since 1927

Dry-aged specialty with dryage cabinets on display

Compact neighborhood cocktail bar behind the avenue

Burgazada's Rum meyhane legacy lands in Bostancı

Beymen's new fine-dining icon, Roman & Williams design, Michelin-starred consulting chef

Paris-bistro-in-Bomonti, Kojo Hospitality's French-Turkish fusion with a kitchen that gives the bar a reason to exist

Neighborhood bistro that turns into a late cocktail room, the kind of address Bebek residents list when asked for 'somewhere normal'.

Villa dining in the old Tribeca space, homemade-syrup cocktails, open-kitchen ambition

Right across from the Bostancı ferry, where locals wait for the Prens Adaları boat

Cocktails + rakı/meze + live music on the Akaretler row-house strip

German-style beer garden with Weihenstephaner on tap and a real backyard

Gül Sultan mansion, Bosphorus, rakı, fish

Three-story Kadife Sokak townhouse with a garden pool and a stone lion

Asian side's most serious craft beer list, deep Gara Guzu shelf

Chef Marcello Micci's Tuscan kitchen on Bağdat Caddesi with 120-person garden

Beyoğlu's serious 400-cap live room, international bookings (Sextile, Hugo Kant), no tribute bands

Moda side-street all-day bar, proper cocktails at kind prices

Tucked-in Sakız Gülü wine bar with a tight, evolving Turkish-focused list.

Adile Sultan Palace dining in the Michelin Guide

Digital arts focus with Bosphorus views from Perili Kosk

Gayrettepe English-pub-style brewpub, 8 house taps of real ales and lagers, the craft-beer brewery for Levent's after-work crowd

Open-air terrace with private Bosphorus-front cabanas

Intimate nightly jazz, blues and soul off İstiklal

Sea-view rooftop meyhane reworking Greek, Sephardic and Turkish meze with a real bar.

Bağdat Caddesi's 30-year award-winning institution

Authentic Antioch heritage cuisine in atmospheric Cihangir setting

Long-running Italian-influenced bar tucked behind Bebek Hamamı

Historic ferry pier dining with unobstructed Bosphorus Bridge views

Cocktail-gastropub from the Joker No:19 crew spilling onto the Avenue, garden, relaxed, serious drinks

Square-side Ortaköy classic since 1988, meze, rakı and a renovated upper terrace under the bridge

Etiler's new neighborhood gastropub

Emre Şen / Morini team's all-day Mediterranean at İstinye Park

Global bean selection in Beyoğlu's creative heart

Living-room-sized wine bar with charcuterie that punches above the General Yazgan address

Twenty-year-old Asmalı cocktail room with Tuesday Turkish-music nights and a regulars-only feel

Barrel-room entrance, 100+ craft beers, garden in back, serious since 2012

Seasonal Italian since 1993 in a villa setting

Turkey's first female-chef-led ocakbaşı, Bosphorus-facing terrace, 8m fire

Shellfish-forward seafood in a 200-year-old Ottoman elephant warehouse

Gourmet deli with exceptional burrata and sandwiches

Legendary kebab institution with 1200-seat marina views since 1997

Onur Balk's award-winning mixology with global street food

Divan Group's gastropub in a historic Akaretler row-house

Fifty-plus years on Bağdat, the Anatolian side's classic pub

Multi-level gastropub with the strongest Turkish craft tap list in Moda, plus serious Belgian and German bottles

Watergarden havuz katında meyhane-pub melezi; küratörlü şarap, ekspert kokteyl.

A quiet Aegean-air meyhane behind Beşiktaş fish market

Michelin-starred chef Emre Şen's new Istanbul canvas

Authentic New York-style bagels in Moda

Authentic Adana kebab with unique lamb maki style

Tight Moda Caddesi bar with a deep beer fridge and a surprisingly serious cocktail menu, distinct from the Şaşkınbakkal Fil

Sarıyer Çarşı fish-meyhane known for kalkan and meze depth.

Authentic Italian by MasterChef judge Danilo Zanna

Dimly lit Esat Işık room pairing classics-first cocktails with a short, serious kitchen

Reservation-only contemporary dining with cocktail focus

Unique fermentation techniques for exceptional pizza

Turkey's pioneering natural wine bar by Maksut Askar

Expertly crafted cocktail menu refreshed every ten days

Quiet Jurnal Sokak şaraphanesi pouring small Anatolian producers and Georgian qvevri

Pioneering contemporary art since 2001

Waterside mansion cocktails for the Yeniköy yalı row.

Sophisticated luxury womenswear from Turkey

After-work cocktail room on Büyükdere for the Levent towers

Where creative design meets fantastic food in Topagaci

Topağacı neighborhood bar with a sharp cocktail list and a proper local crowd.

Small Bebek room with 20+ wines by the glass, Bosphorus-edge tables, and the early-evening crowd that owns the neighborhood.

Black Sea regional cuisine with Gault Millau recognition

1871 Pera wine house in the Hazzopulo Pasajı arcade, intellectuals' canteen, not a museum

Three-storey 19th-century Greek house turned wine room

Sakız Gülü corner with a hidden garden and rooftop terrace; deep beer pour, neighborhood crowd.

70-seat fish house at the Göksu estuary

Two-floor bistro-bar a few steps off Ortaköy pier, Bosphorus view, locals over tourists

Spanish tapas and curated DJ nights in the old Rua room

Small Teşvikiye cocktail room with a considered signature list.

Artisanal Bronx-inspired burgers with daily-ground beef

Home-party-style Topağacı bar with assertive cocktails and a real neighborhood crowd.

The city's flagship Bosphorus-side shisha-and-cocktail lounge, a Kuruçeşme nightlife fixture

Small family trattoria with Michelin 3-pearl mention

The Asian side's oldest real Italian, since 1990

Chef Utku's southern Italian in a Caddebostan villa garden

İskele-side brasserie with proper cocktail list under the bridge

A hidden meyhane under a 70-year fig tree, Vedat Milor's pick

1951 iskele-side meyhane, Can Yücel and Nazım Hikmet's haunt

Nişantaşı sibling of the legendary Beşiktaş gastro-pub with craft beer and whiskey.

Street-level micro-bar on Esat Işık, creative cocktails, vinyl-leaning music, no-frills Kadıköy at its best

Grand Bazaar jewelry expertise since 1951

BigChefs founder's ambitious Levantine project, Aziz Doğrucu (ex-L'Atelier Robuchon London)

Compact meze-first meyhane steps from the marina

Terrace tucked below Rumeli Hisarı's ramparts, shadow of the fortress on one side, the Bosphorus narrowing on the other.

Bohemian backstreet cocktail den off Necatibey

Modern twist on traditional Turkish cuisine with daily-changing market menu

Coffee cocktails and creative brews in Karaköy

Marina-facing grill, seasoned Fenerbahçe regulars

Cihangir garden-club where DJs push funk, disco, chill house past midnight

Late-night Kireçburnu fish-meyhane open until 02:00.

Modern meyhane in historic brewery walls with lentil 'ice cream' signature

Celebrity-founded roastery with house-roasted beans

Tepebaşı rooftop with Golden Horn view and ethno-house program

Second chapter from the Urban/Boden team, classic and signature cocktails

Cold War–era Soviet space-program aesthetic on Topağacı Meydanı.

Nevizade's 1941 original, no singing, just rakı

New-generation kebap rethinking ocakbasi culture

All-day craft beer, street food and cocktails in industrial Kadıköy

Beyoğlu's long-running blues dive run by Mehmet the Blues

Italian fine dining honored by the Italian government since 2012

Tiny family pizzeria with perfect thin crust

Velvet-curtained rooftop over Galata with French bistro kitchen

Narrative-driven cocktail room on Moda Caddesi where each drink is a paragraph, not a prop

2024 World Class Turkey champion's sustainability-led cocktail room

Hidden 350m² walled garden of lemon and linden trees

45-seat Amalfi-inflected Italian room at The Ritz-Carlton

Pigalle ve MiniBar ekibinden izakaya esintili Japon tapas barı, vinil geceleri.

Istanbul twist on Raffles Singapore's original Long Bar, nightly live music

Turkey's first female-run meyhane, Tatavla's living memory since 1946

Authentic Gaziantep cuisine in the heart of Karaköy

Old-style neighbourhood meyhane near Akaretler

Historic 200-year-old han with lokanta lunch and meyhane evenings

Bosnian cuisine by famous actor Ilker Ayrik

Fifth-floor Taksim meyhane where Tatavla Keyfi plays rebetiko Fri-Sat

Old-guard yalı seafood and rakı bar, salt-baked levrek, Bosphorus directly underfoot

Nostalgic meyhane in Bostancı with honest mezes and late-night raki culture

Specialty coffee pioneer with multiple brewing methods

Cihangir duplex tapas bar with a balcony and neighborhood regulars

Tekel-fronted natural wine cellar on a Halaskargazi side street

Kireçburnu waterline fish house, rakı nights the neighborhood still uses.

Wood-coal döner with Kepsut thyme and Konya lavash

The former Babylon Kilyos, now curated music festival beach.

Balyan-brothers building turned bookshop where regulars sip wine after dark

Intimate Fenerbahçe-park-side cocktail room tucked off Bağdat on Faruk Ayanoğlu, the quiet alternative to Suadiye

Chef Ömür Akkor's MoI flagship, Gault & Millau 2026 Best Anatolian Cuisine

23-year Nevizade meyhane named for a Can Yücel poem

House Cafe stable's tiny day-to-night cocktail room on Atiye Sokak

House Cafe's neighborhood-bar sibling, coffee by day, DJ nights Thu-Sat

Moda's most arty cocktail bar with mixology that takes itself seriously without being precious

Quality burgers on Istanbul's Anatolian Side

New-generation Teşvikiye meyhane – contemporary meze, raki, serious pours.

Authentic charcoal grill away from the action

The Moda sushi favourite on a quiet Erenköy side-street

Antique carpet specialists in Grand Bazaar

Usla Academy-trained chefs making buns fresh daily

Tiny Tünel wine room famous among regulars for its mulled wine and queer-friendly door

Michelin-listed seafood institution whose sunset cocktail bar is a genuine Bosphorus ritual

Pink yalı next to the fortress with a quiet pier-side bar