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  Historical Galatasaray Hamam View on map

  The Galatasaray Hammam, adressing the centuries, have served many pashas, muslim judges ( kadi ), and grand viziers and have participated in the pure lifes of these people. Galatasaray Hammam, with the heritage of the past, is also modern, both in the quality of its services and the hospitality of its staff. The construction of Galatasaray Hammam stands on a mysterious story. When the Sultan Beyazit was wandering around the land where todays Galatasaray Lycee and the Galatasaray Hammam stands on now; he sees a hut. This hut belongs to Gul Baba, a respected man of his time. Sultan Beyazit meets this man and asks him "Gul Baba - do you have any wishes?" and Gul Baba wishes the the construction of a schoo

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  Cukurcuma 49 Cafe View on map

  Listed at Guardian UK as one of the 10 of the best bars in Istanbul. Cukurcuma is a formerly neglected neighbourhood which has recently been swept up in Cihangir's breakneck gentrification. In some ways, Cukurcuma 49, a split-level former workshop of bare brick, glass and wood, seems to be the inevitable result of the new aesthetic, yet somehow it retains its own charm. Perhaps it's the thin-crust pizzas, made from fresh Turkish ingredients, or perhaps it's because it serves its own wine, bottled especially on the small Aegean island of Bozcaada. Either way, attention to detail triumphs over pretension.

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  Smyrna View on map

  Listed at Guardian UK as one of the 10 best bars in Istanbul. Cafe Smyrna, a former antique shop, embodies leafy, literary Cihangir's laid-back, old-fashioned style: tables are shaded from the street by plants and awnings, and the bar is a jumble of furniture and standing lamps. Beloved of writers, thespians and the neighbourhood's foreign journalists and expats, Smyrna's outdoor tables, under the plane trees that line the streets, are a lovely place to while away an evening, drink in hand.

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  Susam Cafe View on map

  Listed at Guardian UK as 10 of the best bars in Istanbul. Susam Sokak (Sesame Street) is one of Istanbul's most charming nooks, in the heart of the leafy, literary Cihangir neighbourhood, and this effortlessly friendly local cafe, which buzzes on weekend evenings, is a destination in itself. A mixed bunch of regulars – from local hipsters to foreign newspaper hacks – people the bar, sucking down good cocktails, such as its famous Egeli Mojito (Aegean Mojito), on mismatched furniture in the sitting room-like interior. Most, however, come to soak up the atmosphere on the cafe's street-side terrace.

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  Kaktus Cafe View on map

  Meeting place for local Cihangir people including artists, poets & musicians famous for its lunch options and outside seats.

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  Urban View on map

  Listed at Guardian UK as 10 of the best bars in Istanbul. Urban is a fantastic bar-cum-cafe tucked away in a sidestreet between the Galatasaray Lisesi (high school) and Galatasaray hamam. In summer, tables spill out onto the street, covered by a �arşaf (a sun shade made of trellised vines and ivy) and are thronging with Beyoğlu's boho set, sipping on ice-cold Efes Pilsen. A rare patch of calm in the beating heart of Istanbul, it livens up as the sun sets. Winter brings people into the cosy, old-fashioned, faintly Parisian interior, with a mezzanine and bar – the perfect place to curl up with a book and while away the hours with a beer.

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  Munferit View on map

  Listed at Guardian Uk as 10 of the best bars in Istanbul. A restaurant by day, at night Munferit becomes one of Istanbul's chicest bars. It takes its design cues from the 1940s, with wooden panelling, tiled floors and mirrored walls – courtesy of local interior design superstars Autobahn. On balmy evenings, locals cluster around the tables in the discreet, private garden, just off the street, before repairing to the bar to dance until dawn to sets that range from old-school funk and soul to ambient techno and house. And, as the night wears on, Ferit the owner delivers round after round of free shots.

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  360 View on map

  Listed at Guardian UK as 10 of the best bars in Istanbul. With views stretching over Istanbul in all directions, as the name suggests, glamorous 360 is worth coming to for that alone. You certainly wouldn't come here for the food. Its "society shish kebab summer remix" turns out to be two sticks of meat presented at a jaunty angle, instead of in traditional parallel lines, and the rest of the menu really doesn't warrant the vertiginous prices. Instead of booking dinner, come here early, persuade the waiters to give you a coveted window seat, and sip your drink very slowly. Then source a proper bite to eat on the street below.

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  Litera Bar View on map

  Listed at Guardian as 10 of the best bars in Istanbul. The tall Ottoman buildings that line the streets of Beyoğlu have a tendency to block out the city's fantastic natural beauty. Climbing to Litera, the bar on the fifth floor of the Goethe Institute, however, lays the old city, the Asian side and the Bosphorus at your feet – glass walls and high tables with stools ensure that not an inch is obscured. Such views are all too rare and well worth rooting out. The institute below, meanwhile, offers one of the most varied cultural programmes in Istanbul, from theatre to photography and classical music.

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  Antiochia View on map

  Listed at Guardian as 10 of the best kebab restaurant in Istanbul. Reservation is a must! This small restaurant, which serves the tasty food of southern Turkey's Hatay region, exudes cool without sacrificing flavour. Antiochia's meat dishes are simple, recognisable dishes, set to a higher frequency. Şiş et is a plate of marinated cubes of beef skewered and grilled over a charcoal fire. On any given evening in the Beyoğlu region, there must be thousands of skewers of şiş et coming off the grill, but none are quite as tender and succulent as at Antiochia. And the minced meat d�r�m (wrap) with onions and tomatoes is among the best in the city

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  Zubeyir Ocakbasi View on map

  Listed at Guardian UK as 10 of the best kebab restaurant in Istanbul. Z�beyir, a fantastic grill house near Taksim Square, is a refreshing find. It serves seriously good food, but without taking itself too seriously. The cosy restaurant is dominated by an ocakbasi a long hearth with a copper hood, where the meat is grilled over coals. It's a bit like Turkey's answer to the sushi bar, with a few seats grillside, where you can watch the chef do his thing. Their Adana kebab – spicy minced lamb – has just the right combination of meat, fat and red pepper. Chicken wings (kanat) and lamb chops (pirzola) are also superbly grilled. It's not easy to stand out in a city of kebab restaurants. Zubeyir does it%2

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  Istanbul Modern View on map

  Listed at Guardian as 10 of the best modern art galleries in Istanbul. This huge former warehouse on the shores of the Bosphorus is the most prominent of Istanbul's contemporary galleries. It is arguably the reason why so many smaller spaces have sprung up in the neighbourhood, and the Biennale is held next door. A permanent exhibition takes visitors through a history of modern Turkish art and there are increasingly important international shows, such as portraitist Steve McCurry's photos from the last ever roll of Kodachrome film. But you sometimes have to wonder if the main attraction for many is really the restaurant, and its incredible view of the old city across the water.

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  Galerist View on map

  Listed at Guardian as 10 of the best modern art galleries in Istanbul. No other building in Istanbul can claim to sum up the city today quite like Misir Aparmani, a beautiful 19th-century apartment block presiding over Beyoğlu. It boasts not only the chic 360 bar and club on the top floor but one of the city's best galleries. Over the past decade, Galerist has hosted fashion designer H�seyin �ağlayan's photography projects and stylish, hyper-realistic paintings by Taner Ceylan, among many others. You might not be challenged to think very much here, but it all looks very, well … cool.

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  Pera Museum View on map

  Listed at Guardian as 10 of the best modern art galleries in Istanbul. The main collection might consist of Orientalist paintings, old weights and Ottoman tiles, but modern art fans should keep an eye on the Pera's top-notch travelling exhibitions by the likes of Picasso, Botero and Chagal. You experience the shows from top to bottom, working your way downwards over several floors of bright, white, well-polished museum space. Opening nights bring out paparazzi and camera crews, and the regular screenings of classic foreign films have as much style, romance and class as the converted Victorian hotel building and its location, a stone's throw from the famous Pera Palace Hotel.

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  Yapi Kredi Culture Center View on map

  Listed at Guardian as 10 of the best modern art galleries in Istanbul. It might strike you as strange that a bank would have its own cultural centre and arts-book publishing house, but such things are relatively normal in Turkey. More surprising still, perhaps, is that the exhibitions here, though eclectic, are impressive. The gallery's two rooms usually host an odd but interesting balance of archaeology (text-heavy and educational) and photographic or contemporary art.

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  Hayvore View on map

  Listed at Guardian UK as 10 of the best lokantas in Istanbul. The Black Sea area is Turkey's culinary misfit; it's not really about kebabs or mezes. If anything, the food seems to have been mysteriously transplanted from the American deep south, with cornbread, collard greens and smoky bean stews. It's simple, filling, down-home food, and Hayvore, a little restaurant in the Galatasaray area, is a great – and affordable – spot to get acquainted with it. Try the chickpeas in a glowing red gravy, meaty, stuffed chard leaves, large hunks of cornbread or the Black Sea anchovies (hamsi) lightly fried.

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  Ficcin View on map

  Though Istanbul generally lacks foreign ethnic restaurants as we know them in other world cities, look closer at many lokantas and you'll discover links to kitchens well beyond the borders of Turkey. Ficcin is a friendly restaurant serving the unique cuisine of the mountains of the Caucasus. At lunch, this humble eatery's tables occupy nearly all of the street it is on, laying out Circassian specialities such as a cold chicken and walnut spread and hulking dumplings. Its namesake dish, ficcin, a Chechen b�rek, is a savoury, cake-like dough layered over fragrant ground meat and then baked like a pizza.

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  Karakoy Lokantasi View on map

  Listed at Guardian UK as 10 of the best lokantas in Istanbul. This place started with the concept of a traditional esnaf lokantasi and added laid-back service and funky design and paying greater attention to the food. The result is a power lunch spot buzzing with bankers out for a bite. H�nkar beğendi, a leftover from the Ottoman imperial kitchen, is the star of the menu. Eggplants are charred on a charcoal grill, then peeled, mashed and thickened with milk and cheese. Over the top, tender morsels of slow-cooked lamb are drizzled with the red gravy they were stewed in. It's the beğendi experience that this place thrives on. At night, it turns into a taverna.

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  Istanbul Culinary Institute View on map

  Listed at Guardian UK as 10 of the best lokantas in Istanbul. The restaurant/cafe at the Istanbul Culinary Institute has become an institution since it opened in 2008. The idea is simple: let the students of the culinary school upstairs prepare food for the customers downstairs. The menu changes frequently depending on what is being taught, but it always features classics from the Turkish kitchen. It might sound like there's an element of risk in putting yourself in the hands of neophytes, but what comes out of the kitchen never disappoints. There's zero risk, meanwhile, when it comes to the interior – a stylish space fusing industrial cool with homely warmth.

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  Lades View on map

  Listed at Guardian UK as 10 of the best lokantas in Istanbul. Lades is an old-school spot, a classic lokanta serving stews and steam-table favourites day in, day out. If Lades were a car, it might be an old Volvo estate – nothing exotic, but safe and extremely reliable. The menu changes daily but follows certain rules. As written on the front window, on Mondays and Thursdays the special is succulent ribbons of d�ner kebab served with rice. Tuesday is a day for arnavut ciğeri, lightly fried lamb's liver ramped up with red peppers. But day in, day out, just about everything at Lades – from the soups to the stews to the desserts – is dependably good.

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  Cukur Meyhane View on map

  Listed at Guardian as 10 of the best fish restaurants in Istanbul. The only ambience at this slightly shabby meyhane is created by the smart locals who come to unwind over a meal and bottle of raki, often in excess. Though the menu is an afterthought for some, it's really all about the food at �ukur. That garlicky yoghurt loaded with celery root and purslane and drizzled with olive oil, is enough to ensure a return visit. Then there is the ciğer, or liver, sliced into strips, then lightly fried and dusted with red pepper. Most unusually, the folks at �ukur have figured out how to grill Black Sea anchovies, or hamsi, which are generally fried or baked.

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  Doga Balik View on map

  Doga Balik, with its distinctive cuisine, is a perfect venue for sea food fans. With its wide selection of fish and rarely found herbs, Doga Balik is an extraordinary fish restaurant. Here, you will find the freshest fish, cooked in a special manner . Grilled, stewed, fried and roasted, simply or some in sauces. Besides the dishes prepared with sea food, Doga Balik also offers various appetizers, cooked with 35 different herbs.

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  Kahve 6 View on map

  Comes with all organic and natural ingredients, a true escape for all day with a small garden in the back. Amazing breakfasts!

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  Furreyya Galata Balikcisi View on map

  From the outside, Furreyya Galata Balikcisi, a tiny restaurant in Beyoğlu's quaint Galata area, doesn't look like much. A few tables and stools at a short counter, a smoky grill and not much else. But inside this modest fish shack beats the heart of a more ambitious establishment. Run by a friendly husband and wife team and located just a stone's throw from the 13th-century Galata Tower, the restaurant offers a great (and affordable) alternative to eating at one of Istanbul's fancier fish restaurants. Furreyya's excellent balik durum, a wrap filled with grilled fish and caramelised onions, is perfect.

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