Bar in Beyoğlu

Homemade liqueurs and inventive cocktails in Beyoğlu

360-degree panoramic views from Marmara Pera rooftop

Istanbul's original wine bar championing Turkish wines

Iconic club-restaurant hybrid with wraparound views

Golden Horn views from Sishane's stylish rooftop

Istanbul's oldest wine house since 1898

Hidden art-deco in a 1920s Cukurcuma apartment

Restored 1924 White-Russian salon where Atatürk had a permanent table

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

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

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

Hidden 350m² walled garden of lemon and linden trees

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

Fifth-floor warm dive defending old Beyoğlu's spirit

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

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

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

Tomtom side-street cocktail lab with bartender-led menu

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

Asmalımescit sixth-floor terrace with Golden Horn sunsets

Three floors of Anatolian wine in a candlelit Asmalımescit townhouse

Fatih Akerdem's Hemingway room inside the old American Consulate — 150 Negroni twists and Turkey's only Rakı Cocktails book.

Tepebaşı rooftop with Golden Horn view and ethno-house program

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

Reimagined '5 Cocktails & More' — craft cocktails with sushi pairing

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.

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

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

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

Golden-age cocktail tribute: expert mixologists, dinner-to-dance-floor at 10pm

Contemporary gastro-bar with seasonal plates in Firuzaga