Restaurant · Kadıköy
Yanyalı Fehmi Lokantası
A century-old esnaf lokantası on the Asian side — a tradesmen's canteen of batch-cooked seasonal dishes that Kadıköy residents treat as a civic institution.
Appricio · Turkey
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Café · Fatih
Vefa Bozacisi
Order the boza — the fermented wheat drink that's been made here since 1876, thick and slightly sour, served cold with a dusting of cinnamon and a handful of roasted chickpeas on the side.
Café · Beyoğlu
İnci Pastanesi
Istanbul's most fiercely loved profiterole institution since the early 1940s — the cream-filled choux drizzled with dark chocolate sauce is the only thing worth ordering, and locals have been doing…
Restaurant · Üsküdar
Kanaat Lokantası
An 80-year-old family-run lokanta on the Asian shore where the olive-oil vegetable dishes and chicken pudding dessert keep Üsküdar locals coming back across generations.
Eminönü
Şehir Hatları Bosphorus Cruises
The public long-route ferry up the full length of the Bosphorus — Ottoman yalıs, fortresses, and fishing villages seen from the water, shoulder-to-shoulder with commuters.
Tophane, Beyoğlu
Kılıç Ali Paşa Hamam
A 16th-century Mimar Sinan hammam recently and carefully restored — one of the most architecturally serious bathhouses in the city, with a proper kese scrub on a heated marble slab.
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