Venues similar to Beca Istanbul

Chef Kaan Kayhan's waterfront meyhane on the Yeniköy pier.

The Tarabya fish crescent local without the tourist markup.

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

After-work cocktail room on Büyükdere for the Levent towers

Bosphorus-pier classic since 1949 under century-old plane trees.

Bosphorus-mouth fish-house where the strait opens to the Black Sea.

Tarabya marina fish-house with a working bar program.

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

Over-water fish-meyhane on the Baltalimanı seam.

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

Gault&Millau Top 500 Bars list, bartender-driven Etiler outpost of the Alaçatı original

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

Expertly crafted cocktail menu refreshed every ten days

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

Compact neighborhood cocktail bar behind the avenue

Grand Tarabya's second-floor bar, a Bosphorus-bay cocktail terrace.

Gül Sultan mansion, Bosphorus, rakı, fish

33 years of rakı-sunset at the mouth of the Bosphorus

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

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