Venues similar to Moshonis Balıkçısı

Efkan Kara's Aegean taverna in a Şaşkınbakkal cul-de-sac, meze-first and unbothered by fashion.

The turquoise-tiled Karaköy institution, lokanta by day, meyhane by night, Bib Gourmand 2026.

The corridor's literary meyhane, keeping a guest-book tradition since 1967.

A three-storey mansion off Kadıköy's beaten track, meze-first, with a garden of old Turkish records.

Koşuyolu's Aegean meyhane, a proper meze cabinet and a neighborhood that keeps it to itself.

Pouring under the Cumhuriyet name since 1923, a hundred mezes a day in the middle of Balık Pazarı.

Bahariye's beloved meyhane in a French-bistro-style room

Modern Anatolian cuisine by chef-owner Civan Er in Beyoğlu

Authentic Adana kebab with unique lamb maki style

1951 iskele-side meyhane, Can Yücel and Nazım Hikmet's haunt

A hidden meyhane under a 70-year fig tree, Vedat Milor's pick

Burgazada's Rum meyhane legacy lands in Bostancı

Thirty-five years of fasıl evenings by Bostancı station

1920s meyhane where Yahya Kemal drank rakı

Nevizade's 1941 original, no singing, just rakı

Asmalımescit's ever-new classic since 1977

Old-style neighbourhood meyhane near Akaretler

Modern lokanta named for Turkey's first female lawyer

Chef Alp Çekici's reinterpretation of meyhane culture