Locali affini a Tepe Restaurant & Lounge

Brasserie-attached cigar room on the Vadistanbul side

Kireçburnu waterline fish house, rakı nights the neighborhood still uses.

Panoramic CVK lounge with live performers and a proper bar program

Marble columns, Bosphorus terrace, Ottoman cocktails by the sultan's harem hall

Wide Bosphorus terrace lounge for sundown cigars and the city's best afternoon tea

Sarıyer Çarşı fish-meyhane known for kalkan and meze depth.

Over-water fish-meyhane on the Baltalimanı seam.

Glass-domed rooftop cigar room over the historical peninsula

14th-floor sushi-and-cocktails bar overlooking both continents

Chef Kaan Kayhan's waterfront meyhane on the Yeniköy pier.

The Tarabya fish crescent local without the tourist markup.

Ottoman-motif velvet lobby bar inside the Akaretler row-house W, late DJ sets

Palazzo Corpi ground-floor lounge, the only Soho House bar open to the public, meze-and-cocktail anchor of Meşrutiyet.

Retro-boutique hotel bar at the marina entrance, seasonal cocktails

27-storey Ataşehir tower with a proper lobby-bar cocktail hour

After-work cocktail room on Büyükdere for the Levent towers

Boğaz-narrowest fish house with full bar program since 1967

A park-keeper's hut built over the water, windows on three sides, classic mezes and full rakı/wine bar

Bosphorus-pier classic since 1949 under century-old plane trees.

Bosphorus-mouth fish-house where the strait opens to the Black Sea.