Locali affini a Paraliaki Bebek

Hi-fi listening room above Michelin-star Arkestra; rotating record collectors, low-lit cocktails.

Upper-floor vinyl room above a Bosphorus nikkei kitchen

Cafe by day, hi-fi cocktail bar by night on Şakayık

Day-to-night high-fidelity bar and bakery on Hüsrev Gerede

Late-night jazz bar with live trios and curated vinyl at the renovated Hilton Bosphorus

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

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

Neighbourhood listening bar on Ahmet Fetgeri with vinyl-only program

Selectist's harbour-side hi-fi house with Funktion One sound

Turkey's only rooftop dedicated to reggae, dub and dancehall

Quiet oasis in leather armchairs with book-jacket shelves

Cognac, cigar and Friday-night jazz inside the Ottoman shipyard

Forbes 2025 Star Bar set in the palace gardens

Sipping bubbles at the water's edge as the call to prayer echoes

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

Zorlu PSM's 120-seat jazz box — live programme, intimate room, cocktails with the set

English gentlemen's-club style bar with whiskey, cognac and live music six nights.

Lobby-floor jazz room at The Marmara Pera — four nights a week of local and international sets.

Istanbul's most prestigious live-music stage — jazz, funk, electronic, indie in an ex-brewery, the Robert-College-kids' institution

Yalı bar literally under the FSM bridge — Med kitchen, serious wine list