Venues similar to Comedus

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

Boutique wine and olive house on Emirgan's prettiest backstreet

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

Lal Dedeoğlu's French Passage hideout, kitchen counter, candlelight

Quiet Jurnal Sokak şaraphanesi pouring small Anatolian producers and Georgian qvevri

Kapadokya-rooted wine bar bringing cellared bottles to the avenue

Cevdet Paşa cafe-bar with Bebek-old-guard regulars

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

Seventy-bottle wine bar tucked into Giulio Mongeri's 1922 Art Deco palas

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

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

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

Maksut Askar and Levon Bagis pair Anatolian grapes with endangered regional plates.

1980 Sıraselviler wine cellar, Cihangir's reference for natural pours and serious staff advice

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

Hidden 350m² walled garden of lemon and linden trees

Natural wine bar with chef-driven small plates in Nişantaşı

Rixos Tersane's wine cellar, Turkish boutique producers on the Haliç.

Lobby-floor jazz room at The Marmara Pera, four nights a week of local and international sets.

Microphone-free fasıl ensemble in a restored 20-year house, the real version of what Sultanahmet sells tourists