Venues similar to Beylerbeyi Doğa Balık

Istanbul's pre-eminent 1980 classic bar – stained glass, live music, real regulars.

After-work cocktail room on Büyükdere for the Levent towers

Pigalle ve MiniBar ekibinden izakaya esintili Japon tapas barı, vinil geceleri.

Bosphorus garden classic since 1997, brunch by day, full bar and cocktails after dark

Istanbul twist on Raffles Singapore's original Long Bar, nightly live music

Grand Tarabya's second-floor bar, a Bosphorus-bay cocktail terrace.

Bar side of Four Seasons' Bosphorus seafood room, terrace to the water, Mediterranean pours

İskele-side brasserie with proper cocktail list under the bridge

Haydarpaşa-station-themed cafe-bar that turns into a wine and beer hangout after dark.

Fifth-floor warm dive defending old Beyoğlu's spirit

Fifty-year-old Bebek Hotel bar where dressed-up locals watch the Bosphorus

Expertly crafted cocktail menu refreshed every ten days

House Cafe's neighborhood-bar sibling, coffee by day, DJ nights Thu-Sat

Onur Balk's award-winning mixology with global street food

Villa dining in the old Tribeca space, homemade-syrup cocktails, open-kitchen ambition

Compact neighborhood cocktail bar behind the avenue

Chef Kaan Kayhan's waterfront meyhane on the Yeniköy pier.

The Tarabya fish crescent local without the tourist markup.

Kireçburnu waterline fish house, rakı nights the neighborhood still uses.

Narrative-driven cocktail room on Moda Caddesi where each drink is a paragraph, not a prop