Beyoğlu
Historic entertainment district with nightlife and culture
The legendary entertainment district centered around Istiklal Avenue. From historic passages hiding antique shops to rooftop bars with panoramic views, Beyoğlu never sleeps. Grand Pera hotels, traditional meyhanes, and underground music venues create endless possibilities.
Highlights
Restaurant
33 places
Three-table omakase fusing Pan-Asian technique with Anatolian soul
Five-table tasting menu by a German chef with Turkish ingredients and French soul
Pouring under the Cumhuriyet name since 1923, a hundred mezes a day in the middle of Balık Pazarı.
Michelin-recommended chef reinterpreting Turkish gastronomy in a garden oasis
Refined seasonal menus championing small Anatolian wine producers
The original: Chef Khun Nuch, ex-Thai royal family chef, since 2006
Bar
35 places
Golden-age cocktail tribute: expert mixologists, dinner-to-dance-floor at 10pm
Reimagined '5 Cocktails & More', craft cocktails with sushi pairing
Three floors of Anatolian wine in a candlelit Asmalımescit townhouse
Istanbul's only genuine Irish pub since 1996, off Nevizade
Fatih Akerdem's Hemingway room inside the old American Consulate, 150 Negroni twists and Turkey's only Rakı Cocktails book.
Belle-Époque hotel bar where Agatha Christie drank, literature nights, Friday live jazz, Istanbul-narrative cocktails.
Palazzo Corpi ground-floor lounge, the only Soho House bar open to the public, meze-and-cocktail anchor of Meşrutiyet.
Lobby-floor jazz room at The Marmara Pera, four nights a week of local and international sets.
Sloped-alley rooftop on Kumbaracı, once on World's 15 Best Bars, Bosphorus-to-Historic-Peninsula panorama.
Turkish viticulture by the glass at the Tünel mouth, 85 boutique producers, no foreign-name flex
Living-room-sized wine bar with charcuterie that punches above the General Yazgan address
Quiet Jurnal Sokak şaraphanesi pouring small Anatolian producers and Georgian qvevri
1871 Pera wine house in the Hazzopulo Pasajı arcade, intellectuals' canteen, not a museum
Sofyalı Sokak gastropub crossing serious cocktails with a tight Turkish wine list
Dim, music-first Sofyalı cocktail room from the new wave, opens late, closes at 02:00
Microphone-free fasıl ensemble in a restored 20-year house, the real version of what Sultanahmet sells tourists
Tiny Tünel wine room famous among regulars for its mulled wine and queer-friendly door
Twenty-year-old Asmalı cocktail room with Tuesday Turkish-music nights and a regulars-only feel
Hotel
3 places
Cafe
5 places
Spa
1 place
Gallery
5 places
Nightclub
5 places
Faux-supermarket-fronted late room running consistent house and disco edits till 04:00
Beyoğlu's serious 400-cap live room, international bookings (Sextile, Hugo Kant), no tribute bands