Bar
Nardis Jazz Club
An intimate jazz club a few steps from the Galata Tower, open since 2002 and hosting Turkish and international musicians on most nights of the week.
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.
Good to know
Occupying the top floor of the historic Mısır Apartment on İstiklal Avenue, 360 Istanbul lives up to its name with an all-round view across Beyoğlu, the Golden Horn, the old city and the Bosphorus. By day and early evening it works as a restaurant, serving world and modern Turkish dishes with a wine list and bar menu.
Later on the tables give way to a club, with DJs, international artists and live shows running into the early hours. Come at sunset for a drink on the terrace before dinner, and book a table by the windows if you are eating. The entrance is on İstiklal itself; look for the Mısır Apartment doorway and take the lift up.
The restaurant is open every day from 12:00 to midnight, and the club runs from 23:00 to 04:00.
No — it is a restaurant for lunch and dinner that turns into a club with DJs and live shows at night.
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.
Attraction
Justinian's sixth-century domed basilica, now the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, with a separate visitor route through its upper galleries above the prayer hall.