Restaurants in Taksim/Beyoğlu

From the outside, it’s just another soot-streaked, film-noirish Istanbul apartment building. But once you enter and take the tiny elevator to the fift

Beyoglu is known for its raucous drinking houses, or meyhane, where meze are an excuse for rivers

It’s neither as famous nor as trendy as other rooftop restaurants in the area (say, 360 or Mikla), but Konak’s views are just as exhilarating, and the

Sunset, when the mosques and minarets glow like fire and the city lights twinkle, is the time to hit this spot on the top floor of the Goethe Institut

You might call Zarifi the first postmodern meyhane with a mission to revive lost elements of Beyoğlu’s past