Venues similar to Ernest's Bar by Çok Çok Pera

Chef Fatih Tutak's Silk-Road cocktail room above GALLADA, designed like a vintage grand yacht on the Bosphorus.

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

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

Twenty-year-old Asmalı cocktail room with Tuesday Turkish-music nights and a regulars-only feel

Hidden 350m² walled garden of lemon and linden trees

Tomtom side-street cocktail lab with bartender-led menu

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