Hôtel Amour

André Saraiva and Thierry Costes's Hôtel Amour, opened on rue de Navarin in 2006, was the room that made SoPi a destination for visiting creative directors and invented a tone, louche, romantic, half-art-project, that the rest of the neighborhood spent a decade chasing. The restaurant runs from 8 a.m. breakfast through midnight dinner, with a hidden garden courtyard for the warm months and a Sunday brunch that locals defend. Gault&Millau lists it; Le Figaro and Vogue have profiled the room repeatedly. For an Istanbul guest who wants the actual SoPi mood, not the Instagram version, this is where to start the day.