Venues similar to Makina Lokal

Late-1800s building, seasonal mezes, Greek-Turkish soul

Intimate nightly jazz, blues and soul off İstiklal

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

Compact meze-first meyhane steps from the marina

130 years of rakı-table ritual in Yedikule

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

A quiet Aegean-air meyhane behind Beşiktaş fish market

A Kadıköy balcony meyhane rotating with the market

Nevizade's 1941 original, no singing, just rakı

Asmalımescit's ever-new classic since 1977

23-year Nevizade meyhane named for a Can Yücel poem

Legendary cultural hub and live music venue since 1999

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

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

Burgazada's Rum meyhane legacy lands in Bostancı

Thirty-five years of fasıl evenings by Bostancı station

1920s meyhane where Yahya Kemal drank rakı

Bahariye's beloved meyhane in a French-bistro-style room

Old-style neighbourhood meyhane near Akaretler

Modern lokanta named for Turkey's first female lawyer