Guidebook for Istanbul

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Guidebook for Istanbul

Food Scene

Best place to have Raki and Tapas with live traditional Turkish music
27 locals recommend
Tarihi Cumhuriyet Meyhanesi
No:27 Kamer Hatun Cd.
27 locals recommend
Best place to have Raki and Tapas with live traditional Turkish music
Best place to have Raki and Meat, really nice staff
Pala Ocakbaşı Restaurant
No:17 Kamer Hatun Cd.
Best place to have Raki and Meat, really nice staff
a small restaurant which offers delicious turkish food
126 locals recommend
Ficcin
No:13/1 Kallavi Sk.
126 locals recommend
a small restaurant which offers delicious turkish food
offers vegetarian food
48 locals recommend
Zencefil
8 Kurabiye Sk.
48 locals recommend
offers vegetarian food
offers vegetarian food
20 locals recommend
Parsifal Restaurant
No: 34 Havyar Sokak
20 locals recommend
offers vegetarian food
Raki and Tapas in a lovely old passage of İstanbul
228 locals recommend
Çiçek Pasajı Manolya Restaurant
228 locals recommend
Raki and Tapas in a lovely old passage of İstanbul
try it if you like fancy places! offers alcoholic beverages
275 locals recommend
360 Istanbul
275 locals recommend
try it if you like fancy places! offers alcoholic beverages
Mama shelter is in İstanbul now, experience food in this lovely interior
31 locals recommend
Demirören İstiklal Palas
50 İstiklal Cd.
31 locals recommend
Mama shelter is in İstanbul now, experience food in this lovely interior
offers delicious fish with Raki, sit just near the Golden Horn and sip from your raki
59 locals recommend
Akın Balık
No:40/A Fermeneciler Cd.
59 locals recommend
offers delicious fish with Raki, sit just near the Golden Horn and sip from your raki
best place to eat ''lahmacun''
10 locals recommend
Kardeşler Kebap Salonu
No:1/A Firuzağa Cami Sk.
10 locals recommend
best place to eat ''lahmacun''
a place where you can rest a bit after walking through grand bazaar and egyptian bazaar
9 locals recommend
Hafız Mustafa
No:84 Hamidiye Cd.
9 locals recommend
a place where you can rest a bit after walking through grand bazaar and egyptian bazaar
lovely place with different kinds of tea and the perfect interior
25 locals recommend
Dem Karaköy
25 locals recommend
lovely place with different kinds of tea and the perfect interior
Special kind of breakfast from the city ''Van'' in the east of Turkey
Van Ahtamar Kahvaltı Salonu
26 Mis Sk.
Special kind of breakfast from the city ''Van'' in the east of Turkey
Coffee, Tea and Sweet stuff, just what we all need. My grand mother also used to eat there and the interior is still the same!
32 locals recommend
Baylan
No: 9/A Muvakkıthane Cd.
32 locals recommend
Coffee, Tea and Sweet stuff, just what we all need. My grand mother also used to eat there and the interior is still the same!
''Serpme kahvaltı''... This is the way Turkish people have breakfast. You won't regret it.
11 locals recommend
Rumeli Kale Cafe & Restaurant
No:10 Yahya Kemal Cd.
11 locals recommend
''Serpme kahvaltı''... This is the way Turkish people have breakfast. You won't regret it.
Old place near the sea..
Emek Cafe
57 Köybaşı Cd.
Old place near the sea..
You have to try turkish mantı!
Hala Mantı
14/A Çukurlu Çeşme Sk.
You have to try turkish mantı!
360 degrees view of golden horn
36 locals recommend
Galata lily Cafe restaurant
no:69/A Lüleci Hendek Cd.
36 locals recommend
360 degrees view of golden horn
Drink a lemonade in this cool garden under the shadows of lemon trees
73 locals recommend
Limonlu Bahçe
No:74 Yeni Çarşı Cd.
73 locals recommend
Drink a lemonade in this cool garden under the shadows of lemon trees
the most famous place to eat ''baklava'', a turkish dessert.
151 locals recommend
Karakoy Gulluoglu
No:67 Kemankeş Caddesi
151 locals recommend
the most famous place to eat ''baklava'', a turkish dessert.
For eating delicious fish right on the bosphorous coast..
25 locals recommend
Arnavutköy Balıkçısı
4 Bebek Arnavutköy Cd
25 locals recommend
For eating delicious fish right on the bosphorous coast..
hundred years old restaurant offering Ottoman food
Pandeli Restaurant
hundred years old restaurant offering Ottoman food
Old restaurant offering Ottoman food
Havuzlu Restaurant
3 Gani Çelebi Sk.
Old restaurant offering Ottoman food
Eating kebap with a view of Golden Horn
49 locals recommend
Hamdi Restaurant Eminönü
No:11 Kalçin Sk.
49 locals recommend
Eating kebap with a view of Golden Horn

Everything Else

Zoe is a really nice restaurant with a terrace letting you experience the view of the historical peninsula, you can continue with drinks afterwards in CUE, the club downstairs.
Zoe Restaurant & Bar
No38 Yeni Çarşı Caddesi
Zoe is a really nice restaurant with a terrace letting you experience the view of the historical peninsula, you can continue with drinks afterwards in CUE, the club downstairs.
Turkish tavern
17 locals recommend
Asmalı Cavit Meyhanesi
83 Meşrutiyet Cd.
17 locals recommend
Turkish tavern
A park near the sea with a lovely breeze.
33 locals recommend
Bebek Parkı
Bebek Parkı
33 locals recommend
A park near the sea with a lovely breeze.
Lovely place to rest, enjoy, swim, lay in the sun. sand and weavy water, live music on saturdays and sundays, food and drinks, disco.. and much more! entrance fee is 40 turkish lira
17 locals recommend
Suma Plajı
17 locals recommend
Lovely place to rest, enjoy, swim, lay in the sun. sand and weavy water, live music on saturdays and sundays, food and drinks, disco.. and much more! entrance fee is 40 turkish lira
another lovely place for swimming and having fun, house music included..
17 locals recommend
Solar Beach Therapy
32 kilya cad
17 locals recommend
another lovely place for swimming and having fun, house music included..
For delicious and cheap breakfast
16 locals recommend
Pişi breakfast & Burger Beşiktaş
14 Çelebi Oğlu Sk.
16 locals recommend
For delicious and cheap breakfast
museum for modern art with special exhibitions
96 locals recommend
Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum
42 Sakıp Sabancı Cd.
96 locals recommend
museum for modern art with special exhibitions
museum for modern art
209 locals recommend
SALT Galata, Istanbul
No:11 Bankalar Cd.
209 locals recommend
museum for modern art
museum for modern art
97 locals recommend
Arter
No:13 Irmak Cd.
97 locals recommend
museum for modern art
if you like cutting edge theater, also has acts from abroad (mostly UK or US)
Kumbaraci50
No:50 Kumbaracı Yokuşu
if you like cutting edge theater, also has acts from abroad (mostly UK or US)
The most beautiful mosque of Architect Sinan and you can eat delicious ''kuru fasulye'' a dish made with beans right opposite the enterance.
Süleymaniye Mosque and Complex
The most beautiful mosque of Architect Sinan and you can eat delicious ''kuru fasulye'' a dish made with beans right opposite the enterance.
If you like Wine and a romantic evening
Corvus Wine & Bite
No:5 Şair Nedim Cd.
If you like Wine and a romantic evening
really nice neighbourhood with small stores for jewellery and souvenirs. you have to try ''kumpir'' a dish made of potatoes and tapas.
218 locals recommend
Büyük Mecidiye Mosque (Ortaköy Mosque)
No:1 Mecidiye Köprüsü Sk.
218 locals recommend
really nice neighbourhood with small stores for jewellery and souvenirs. you have to try ''kumpir'' a dish made of potatoes and tapas.
you can have breakfast or dinner in the middle of bosphorous!
Suda Kebap
you can have breakfast or dinner in the middle of bosphorous!

Shopping

a turkish deli with everything you can think of. you have to try the pastrami!
76 locals recommend
Namlı Gurme
No:6 Rıhtım Cad.
76 locals recommend
a turkish deli with everything you can think of. you have to try the pastrami!
If you like almonds you have to try almond paste (marzipan).
Meshur Bebek Badem Ezmesi
No:53/C Cevdet Paşa Cd.
If you like almonds you have to try almond paste (marzipan).
cheap souvenir shopping
Sark Han
No: 17 Vasıf Çınar Cd.
cheap souvenir shopping
shopping and gourmet cafes but it is an expensive area..
305 locals recommend
Nişantaşı
305 locals recommend
shopping and gourmet cafes but it is an expensive area..

Arts & Culture

biggest museum for modern art
618 locals recommend
Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
No:1/1 Meşrutiyet Cd.
618 locals recommend
biggest museum for modern art

Drinks & Nightlife

if you like live jazz..
135 locals recommend
Nardis Jazz Club
8 Galata Kulesi Sk.
135 locals recommend
if you like live jazz..
Gay bar
34 locals recommend
Love Dance Point
No:349 Hastane Sk
34 locals recommend
Gay bar
Vida Pera for drinks and dancing
The Pera Residence
no:7 Şehbender Sokak
Vida Pera for drinks and dancing
With special events, djs from abroad, dancing and alcohol
42 locals recommend
indigo
42 locals recommend
With special events, djs from abroad, dancing and alcohol
dancing to ethnic music
14 locals recommend
Leyla Terrace
Mis Sokak
14 locals recommend
dancing to ethnic music