Bar in Beyoğlu

Istanbul's original wine bar championing Turkish wines

Turkish viticulture by the glass at the Tünel mouth, 85 boutique producers, no foreign-name flex

Living-room-sized wine bar with charcuterie that punches above the General Yazgan address

Twenty-year-old Asmalı cocktail room with Tuesday Turkish-music nights and a regulars-only feel

Quiet Jurnal Sokak şaraphanesi pouring small Anatolian producers and Georgian qvevri

1871 Pera wine house in the Hazzopulo Pasajı arcade, intellectuals' canteen, not a museum

Tepebaşı rooftop with Golden Horn view and ethno-house program

Hidden 350m² walled garden of lemon and linden trees

Sofyalı Sokak gastropub crossing serious cocktails with a tight Turkish wine list

23-year Nevizade meyhane named for a Can Yücel poem

Belle-Époque hotel bar where Agatha Christie drank, literature nights, Friday live jazz, Istanbul-narrative cocktails.

Tiny Tünel wine room famous among regulars for its mulled wine and queer-friendly door

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

Istanbul's only genuine Irish pub since 1996, off Nevizade

Dim, music-first Sofyalı cocktail room from the new wave, opens late, closes at 02:00

Corner pub off İstiklal where free live music spills into the street

Iconic club-restaurant hybrid with wraparound views

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

Tomtom side-street cocktail lab with bartender-led menu

Sloped-alley rooftop on Kumbaracı, once on World's 15 Best Bars, Bosphorus-to-Historic-Peninsula panorama.