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Forbes 2025 Star Bar set in the palace gardens

14th-floor sushi-and-cocktails bar overlooking both continents

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

The Tarabya fish crescent local without the tourist markup.

Hilltop Baltalimanı panorama, bar open until 2am.

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

Gül Sultan mansion, Bosphorus, rakı, fish

Ottoman-motif velvet lobby bar inside the Akaretler row-house W, late DJ sets

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

Palazzo Corpi ground-floor lounge, the only Soho House bar open to the public, meze-and-cocktail anchor of Meşrutiyet.

27-storey Ataşehir tower with a proper lobby-bar cocktail hour

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

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

A park-keeper's hut built over the water, windows on three sides, classic mezes and full rakı/wine bar

Square-side Ortaköy classic since 1988, meze, rakı and a renovated upper terrace under the bridge

Water-edge House Café flagship, two terraces, full bar, summer DJ weekends

Bosphorus-pier classic since 1949 under century-old plane trees.

Bosphorus-mouth fish-house where the strait opens to the Black Sea.