Venues similar to Karaköy Lokantası

The çarşı's oldest working meyhane, pouring since 1974, topik in the case and fasıl kept upstairs.

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

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

The corridor's literary meyhane, keeping a guest-book tradition since 1967.

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

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

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

Warm hospitality and live music in historic Asmalimescit

Authentic Greek taverna with Bosphorus views and Thessaloniki flavors

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

Thirty-five years of fasıl evenings by Bostancı station

1920s meyhane where Yahya Kemal drank rakı

Nevizade's 1941 original, no singing, just rakı

Asmalımescit's ever-new classic since 1977

Old-style neighbourhood meyhane near Akaretler

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

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