Locali affini a Parantez Bistro

Quiet Jurnal Sokak şaraphanesi pouring small Anatolian producers and Georgian qvevri

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

Hidden 350m² walled garden of lemon and linden trees

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

Kapadokya-rooted wine bar bringing cellared bottles to the avenue

Terrace tucked below Rumeli Hisarı's ramparts, shadow of the fortress on one side, the Bosphorus narrowing on the other.

Bağdat Avenue branch of historic Beyoğlu Pano; fasıl music, straight rakı, serious wine cellar

Cevdet Paşa cafe-bar with Bebek-old-guard regulars

Tekel-fronted natural wine cellar on a Halaskargazi side street

Three-storey 19th-century Greek house turned wine room

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

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

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

Neighborhood bistro that turns into a late cocktail room, the kind of address Bebek residents list when asked for 'somewhere normal'.

Café by day, a loose Arnavutköy bar with DJ nights by dark, the most informal room on the strip.

Small Bebek room with 20+ wines by the glass, Bosphorus-edge tables, and the early-evening crowd that owns the neighborhood.

Seasonal kitchen and an opinionated Turkish wine cellar on the quiet Mühürdar slope, adults-only, no menus in seven languages

Maksut Askar and Levon Bagis pair Anatolian grapes with endangered regional plates.

Restored Camondo vault with local-producer wine list and nightly saxophone.