Venues similar to Benusen

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.

A three-storey mansion off Kadıköy's beaten track, meze-first, with a garden of old Turkish records.

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

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

Chef İsmail's Cunda-Greek fish house at the Kızıltoprak end of the Cadde, the corridor's rakı-balık default.

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

50 varieties of mezze in a 120-year-old building facing Sureyya Opera

Poetry-inspired meyhane in a century-old garden

Authentic Greek taverna with Bosphorus views and Thessaloniki flavors

Turkish-Greek meze heritage in a historic 1896 Pera landmark

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

A Kadıköy balcony meyhane rotating with the market

No-menu fish market dining by Galata Bridge

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

Compact meze-first meyhane steps from the marina

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

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