Venues similar to Writers Bar

Zorlu PSM's 120-seat jazz box, live programme, intimate room, cocktails with the set

Lobby-floor jazz room at The Marmara Pera, four nights a week of local and international sets.

Open-air terrace with private Bosphorus-front cabanas

Library-fronted speakeasy, no sign, no social media, referral entry only

Beyoğlu's serious 400-cap live room, international bookings (Sextile, Hugo Kant), no tribute bands

Istanbul twist on Raffles Singapore's original Long Bar, nightly live music

The former Babylon Kilyos, now curated music festival beach.

Kilyos kite-school beach club, family-leaning, summer only.

Grand Tarabya's second-floor bar, a Bosphorus-bay cocktail terrace.

Rixos Tersane's wine cellar, Turkish boutique producers on the Haliç.

Ten-tap Somx microbrewery with a vinyl wall and DJ booth on Jurnal Sokak

Microphone-free fasıl ensemble in a restored 20-year house, the real version of what Sultanahmet sells tourists

Seventy-bottle wine bar tucked into Giulio Mongeri's 1922 Art Deco palas