Venues similar to La Cave

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.

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

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

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

Kapadokya-rooted wine bar bringing cellared bottles to the avenue

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

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

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

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