Locales parecidos a Topside Bar

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

Cocktails + rakı/meze + live music on the Akaretler row-house strip

Living-room cocktail den on a Cihangir side-street, foreign correspondents, local hipsters, the Egeli Mojito.

Akarsu brick-walled third-wave roastery by day, standing-room cocktail hang by night.

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

Waterside mansion cocktails for the Yeniköy yalı row.

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

20th-floor Marmara rooftop, 360-degree Bosphorus panorama with house-infused mixology for Taksim-edge cosmopolitans

İskele-side brasserie with proper cocktail list under the bridge

Athinagoras Kostakos kitchen, three bars by Alex Kostenyuk, Belenko design

Red-velvet audiophile bar with craft cocktails and vinyl, beneath the Listening Room.

9th-floor 360° Bosphorus terrace at the JW

Fifty-year-old Bebek Hotel bar where dressed-up locals watch the Bosphorus

Expertly crafted cocktail menu refreshed every ten days

House Cafe's neighborhood-bar sibling, coffee by day, DJ nights Thu-Sat

Onur Balk's award-winning mixology with global street food

Compact neighborhood cocktail bar behind the avenue

Kadıköy-spirit bistro-bar that happens to sit on the avenue

Narrative-driven cocktail room on Moda Caddesi where each drink is a paragraph, not a prop

Dimly lit Esat Işık room pairing classics-first cocktails with a short, serious kitchen