Venues similar to Happily Ever After

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

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.

Boutique wine and olive house on Emirgan's prettiest backstreet

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

1980 Sıraselviler wine cellar, Cihangir's reference for natural pours and serious staff advice

Tucked-in Sakız Gülü wine bar with a tight, evolving Turkish-focused list.

Lal Dedeoğlu's French Passage hideout, kitchen counter, candlelight

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

Kapadokya-rooted wine bar bringing cellared bottles to the avenue

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

Quiet Jurnal Sokak şaraphanesi pouring small Anatolian producers and Georgian qvevri

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

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

Tekel-fronted natural wine cellar on a Halaskargazi side street

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

Hidden 350m² walled garden of lemon and linden trees