Locali affini a Paraliaki Bebek

Hi-fi listening room above Michelin-star Arkestra; rotating record collectors, low-lit cocktails.

Day-to-night high-fidelity bar and bakery on Hüsrev Gerede

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

Seventy-bottle wine bar tucked into Giulio Mongeri's 1922 Art Deco palas

Selectist's harbour-side hi-fi house with Funktion One sound

Turkey's only rooftop dedicated to reggae, dub and dancehall

Quiet oasis in leather armchairs with book-jacket shelves

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

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

Zorlu PSM's 120-seat jazz box, live programme, intimate room, cocktails with the set

English gentlemen's-club style bar with whiskey, cognac and live music six nights.

Istanbul's most prestigious live-music stage, jazz, funk, electronic, indie in an ex-brewery, the Robert-College-kids' institution