Cocktail Bar in Istanbul

Homemade liqueurs and inventive cocktails in Beyoğlu

Kadıköy's beloved neighborhood cocktail gem

London pub ambiance with craft cocktails

Craft cocktails in Caferağa's creative heart

All-day venue that flips into a cocktail bar with workshops and guest DJs after sunset.

Late-2025 waterfront bar with a beachfront terrace

Compact neighborhood cocktail bar behind the avenue

Cocktails + rakı/meze + live music on the Akaretler row-house strip

Three-story Kadife Sokak townhouse with a garden pool and a stone lion

Moda side-street all-day bar, proper cocktails at kind prices

Long-running Italian-influenced bar tucked behind Bebek Hamamı

Cocktail-gastropub from the Joker No:19 crew spilling onto the Avenue, garden, relaxed, serious drinks

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

Onur Balk's award-winning mixology with global street food

Dancing and cocktails in fashionable Nişantaşı

Tight Moda Caddesi bar with a deep beer fridge and a surprisingly serious cocktail menu, distinct from the Şaşkınbakkal Fil

Dimly lit Esat Işık room pairing classics-first cocktails with a short, serious kitchen

Expertly crafted cocktail menu refreshed every ten days

Waterside mansion cocktails for the Yeniköy yalı row.

After-work cocktail room on Büyükdere for the Levent towers

Topağacı neighborhood bar with a sharp cocktail list and a proper local crowd.

Spanish tapas and curated DJ nights in the old Rua room

Small Teşvikiye cocktail room with a considered signature list.

Home-party-style Topağacı bar with assertive cocktails and a real neighborhood crowd.

Street-level micro-bar on Esat Işık, creative cocktails, vinyl-leaning music, no-frills Kadıköy at its best

Former antique shop turned speakeasy: billiards, vintage decor, theatrical cocktails

Second chapter from the Urban/Boden team, classic and signature cocktails

All-day craft beer, street food and cocktails in industrial Kadıköy

Velvet-curtained rooftop over Galata with French bistro kitchen

Narrative-driven cocktail room on Moda Caddesi where each drink is a paragraph, not a prop

2024 World Class Turkey champion's sustainability-led cocktail room

Hidden 350m² walled garden of lemon and linden trees

Istanbul twist on Raffles Singapore's original Long Bar, nightly live music

Gault&Millau Top 500 Bars list, bartender-driven Etiler outpost of the Alaçatı original

Reimagined '5 Cocktails & More', craft cocktails with sushi pairing

Intimate Fenerbahçe-park-side cocktail room tucked off Bağdat on Faruk Ayanoğlu, the quiet alternative to Suadiye

House Cafe stable's tiny day-to-night cocktail room on Atiye Sokak

House Cafe's neighborhood-bar sibling, coffee by day, DJ nights Thu-Sat

Moda's most arty cocktail bar with mixology that takes itself seriously without being precious

Michelin-listed seafood institution whose sunset cocktail bar is a genuine Bosphorus ritual

Athinagoras Kostakos kitchen, three bars by Alex Kostenyuk, Belenko design

Three-storey corner building on the Moda tram line, evening-favourite room with sharing plates and a confident cocktail list

Red-velvet audiophile bar with craft cocktails and vinyl, beneath the Listening Room.

House-music rooftop facing Galata Tower

Jigger Istanbul's flagship, signature cocktails with Turkish bitters

Living-room cocktail den on a Cihangir side-street, foreign correspondents, local hipsters, the Egeli Mojito.

Day restaurant, night cocktail bar on Nişantaşı's liveliest street

Golden-age cocktail tribute: expert mixologists, dinner-to-dance-floor at 10pm

Modern Anatolian kitchen with serious cocktail bar and hidden Teşvikiye garden

Hand-built tiny Şair Nedim cocktail room, speakeasy live music Fridays, smoke inside

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

Intimate Teşvikiye cocktail bar with a tight signature list and quiet confidence.

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

20th-floor Marmara rooftop, 360-degree Bosphorus panorama with house-infused mixology for Taksim-edge cosmopolitans

Signature pistachio cocktails in less-crowded Göztepe

Turkish DJs, live-jazz, and funk in classic-elegant Beyoğlu

Local Turkish flavors meet creative mixology

Cihangir's day-to-night neighborhood favorite

Tomtom side-street cocktail lab with bartender-led menu

Alleyway bar run by Turkey and world bartending champion Onurcan Gençer

Library-fronted speakeasy, no sign, no social media, referral entry only

Sophisticated cocktail bar with Mediterranean kitchen