Venues similar to Comedus

Restored Camondo vault with local-producer wine list and nightly saxophone.

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

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

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