Restaurant
Turk Fatih Tutak
Chef Fatih Tutak's Bomonti tasting-menu restaurant, holding two Michelin stars and a Green Star, reworking Turkish culinary traditions with modern technique.
Mehmet Gürs's rooftop restaurant atop The Marmara Pera, serving a Michelin-starred New Anatolian menu with panoramic views over the old city and Bosphorus.
Good to know
Perched on the top floors of The Marmara Pera, Mikla pairs one of the best panoramas in Beyoğlu with a kitchen that calls its style New Anatolian. Chef Mehmet Gürs and his team build menus from carefully sourced ingredients from across Anatolia, presented in a contemporary way, and the restaurant holds a Michelin star in the 2026 guide.
It opens for dinner only, Monday to Saturday, with last food orders at 21:30, while the terrace bar stays open until late. Book ahead and ask for a window table for the view across the Golden Horn; if dinner is beyond the budget, a sunset drink on the terrace gives you the same skyline.
Reviewed by Lifestylemetro · Details checked October 23, 2026
Dinner only, Monday to Saturday from 18:00, with last food orders at 21:30; it is closed on Sundays. The bar is open from 18:00 to 02:00.
Yes — it holds one Michelin star in the 2026 guide.
Bar
A long-running bar, restaurant and late-night club on the top floor of the historic Mısır Apartment on İstiklal Avenue, with panoramic city views.
Hotel
A five-star Kempinski hotel built around a restored 19th-century Ottoman palace on the Bosphorus shore, with an infinity pool and 317 rooms.
Tour operator
The neighbourhood food-tour company that began in Istanbul in 2009 as Istanbul Eats, known for its day-long Two Markets, Two Continents walk.
Thing to do
One of the world's oldest covered markets, begun in the 1450s, with 61 vaulted streets of carpet, jewellery, ceramics and textile shops.