Venues similar to Touché by N Kolay

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

Quiet oasis in leather armchairs with book-jacket shelves

Beyoğlu's serious 400-cap live room, international bookings (Sextile, Hugo Kant), no tribute bands

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

Open-air terrace with private Bosphorus-front cabanas

The former Babylon Kilyos, now curated music festival beach.

Bosphorus-side live-rock institution out at Burunbahçe

Library-fronted speakeasy, no sign, no social media, referral entry only

Swissotel's see-and-be-seen rooftop with DJ sets

Cognac, cigar and Friday-night jazz inside the Ottoman shipyard

Tower-foot jazz bar in a former mosaic workshop

Late-night jazz bar with live trios and curated vinyl at the renovated Hilton Bosphorus

Kilyos kite-school beach club, family-leaning, summer only.

Iconic club-restaurant hybrid with wraparound views

Dancing and cocktails in fashionable Nişantaşı

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.

Boutique wine and olive house on Emirgan's prettiest backstreet

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