Akol

This is an excellent place for people-watching, and the people-watching sessions are lengthy in Istanbul! Grab a table right by the huge...

DSM Doga is a large adventure sports center that organizes a plethora of activities including river rafting all over the country and moun...

Competing with two or three other small bar/restaurants with tables on the same street, the Sultan Pub (which overlooks...

The Belfast -- Irish in name only -- is a well-run pub. It is always clean and tidy, offers fast efficient service, reasonably-priced col...

Karga ("Raven") looks unimpressive from the small storefront with only an metal cutout of a raven for a sign, but upon entering, you are...

Masal Evi ("Story House") is appropriately named as it looks like the perfect spot to curl up and do some writing. You feel as if you are...

Located in a pastel yellow 100-year-old Ottoman townhouse, this place is easy to find. Antre is female-friendly: run by women, for women....

This unassuming little café, near the Reks Cinema, is a peaceful oasis off the main drag. It is popular with cinema goers and arty types...

Debitur organizes walking tours around historical Istanbul which includes lunch at one of the local Turkish restaurants. Check out the we...

Long-haired leather-clad Anatolian rockers, wrinkled beatniks, students and ex-pats make up the crowd, drawn by a mix of blues and rock,...

Kosebasi is a group of restaurants that have offered traditional meat-based specialty recipes from the Adana and Tarsus region since 1995...

If you've never been in love before, this is the place to come to experience it for the first time. However, you need to be a fan of octo...

The Yeni Kaptan Restaurant is something of an institution in Arnavutköy. It's been around for eons serving locals what is quite possibly...

Hercai occupies the whole of a gorgeous 19th-century three-storey house. Admire original cinema posters from socially conscious films of...

You wouldn't make a special trip to come and dine here, but it's a good place to have lunch or dinner if you happen to be on this side of...

The aroma of delicious lamb and chicken kebabs wafting from the kitchen envelopes guest as they scramble to find empty seats at this crow...

The Huzur Restaurant is situated at the top of a hill. It can be reached by walking up Iskele Caddesi, to the left of the Rubin Bar. The...

The Kiz Kulesi Restaurant is located in the Maidens Tower, a small tower on a tiny islet near the Asian shore of the Bosphorus Strait. It...

The Apricot Hotel is the perfect example of why inexpensive doesn't have to mean cheap. Hakan, the owner, is bucking the tren...