For a stay in Beşiktaş
Parks & Nature
Green valley very close to home. Jogging, yoga, hanging out...
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Maçka Democracy Park
Mim Kemal Öke CaddesiGreen valley very close to home. Jogging, yoga, hanging out...
Great for a walk in the waterfront and taking fresh air by Bosphorus in fancy district with cafes, restaurants and bars.
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Bebek Parki
No:16 Bebek ParkıGreat for a walk in the waterfront and taking fresh air by Bosphorus in fancy district with cafes, restaurants and bars.
Hike on its trails, do biking or picnic. You can BBQ in a select area. Nature parks, marshes, historical reservoirs. The Valens Aquaduct runs through the Forest.
I-Belgrad Forest
Hike on its trails, do biking or picnic. You can BBQ in a select area. Nature parks, marshes, historical reservoirs. The Valens Aquaduct runs through the Forest.
Shopping
A mall. Close, nice and small. Check the ''Mahalle'' at the roof. It's like Eataly. Various delicious cuisines under the same roof. Directly the 5th with elevator.
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City's Nişantaşı
12 Teşvikiye Cd.A mall. Close, nice and small. Check the ''Mahalle'' at the roof. It's like Eataly. Various delicious cuisines under the same roof. Directly the 5th with elevator.
Besiktas Fish Market
Köyiçi CaddesiFish Market.
In front of this bookstore, you can find Besiktas-Taksim share taxi stop. There is also two bus stops to go Taksim or Eminonu (historical peninsula, close to spice bazaar).
Alkim Kitabevi
No:29/31 Beşiktaş CaddesiIn front of this bookstore, you can find Besiktas-Taksim share taxi stop. There is also two bus stops to go Taksim or Eminonu (historical peninsula, close to spice bazaar).
Namlı Hipermarket
You can do your grocery shopping. Better vegetables & fruits here.
You can do your grocery shopping. Competitive prices here. Where you can also buy credit for Istanbul-card.
Şok Market
You can do your grocery shopping. Competitive prices here. Where you can also buy credit for Istanbul-card.
Macro Center
You can do your grocery shopping.
You can do your grocery shopping. It is the largest supermarket around the house.
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MM Migros
You can do your grocery shopping. It is the largest supermarket around the house.
The post office... After the office, pass the Syrian Consulate on your left and you'll reach Tesvikiye-Taksim share-taxi stop, which is 5 min walk from the flat and the ride reaches Taksim in 5 minutes. First you sit and wait in the share taxi, it gets full in 4-10 minutes depending on the hour of the day.
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PTT
16 Maçka Cad.The post office... After the office, pass the Syrian Consulate on your left and you'll reach Tesvikiye-Taksim share-taxi stop, which is 5 min walk from the flat and the ride reaches Taksim in 5 minutes. First you sit and wait in the share taxi, it gets full in 4-10 minutes depending on the hour of the day.
Food Scene
Midpoint
No: 59 Abdi İpekçi Cd.Quality international kitchen
Cookshop
No:10/2 Bostan Sk.Quality kitchen, reasonable prices.
Sushico
No:21 Mim Kemal Öke Cd.Far East Kitchen
Kirinti
No: 28 Abdi İpekçi CaddesiQuality kitchen
Very nice cafe-restaurant. For open air seaside tables, you should prebook.
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The House Cafe Ortaköy
1 Ortaköy Salhanesi Sk.Very nice cafe-restaurant. For open air seaside tables, you should prebook.
The oldest bakery shop of Besiktas. Great breads and other floury beauties. Make sure you decide what you will buy while you're on the queue!
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7-8 Hasanpaşa Fırını
No:8 Şht. Asım Cd.The oldest bakery shop of Besiktas. Great breads and other floury beauties. Make sure you decide what you will buy while you're on the queue!
Cakmak Breakfast Shop is on what locals of Besiktas call breakfast street. Lots of breakfast shops and students. Breakfast & brunch. Try CREAM&HONEY for sure! PISHI is other must eat.
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Çakmak Kahvaltı Salonu
No:6 Çelebi Oğlu Sk.Cakmak Breakfast Shop is on what locals of Besiktas call breakfast street. Lots of breakfast shops and students. Breakfast & brunch. Try CREAM&HONEY for sure! PISHI is other must eat.
Quality Ottoman kitchen in the very traditional area: Uskudar. Humble decoration, great meal and desserts.
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Kanaat Lokantası
9 Selmani Pak Cd.Quality Ottoman kitchen in the very traditional area: Uskudar. Humble decoration, great meal and desserts.
A famous traditional restaurant among the locals for lunch and dinner.
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Karaköy Lokantası
No:57 Kemankeş Cd.A famous traditional restaurant among the locals for lunch and dinner.
A simple setting where locals drink and eat out. Behind the fish market under the Galata Bridge. Be there during sunset and stay late for fresh fish, meze and raki. Reasonable prices. Call first to book one of the front tables.
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Akın Balık
No:40/A Fermeneciler Cd.A simple setting where locals drink and eat out. Behind the fish market under the Galata Bridge. Be there during sunset and stay late for fresh fish, meze and raki. Reasonable prices. Call first to book one of the front tables.
The most well known place for delicious Turkish dessert Baklava. A lot of different kinds of baklava. One and only.
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Karakoy Gulluoglu
No:67 Kemankeş CaddesiThe most well known place for delicious Turkish dessert Baklava. A lot of different kinds of baklava. One and only.
Dubb Indian Bosphorus Restaurant
Best Indian food in town. Hilton Hotel.
Shang Palace
Best Chinese in town. Shangri-La Hotel.
A breakfast shop in Nisantasi with small Aegean town concept. Very popular on food scene applications. You might wait a long time on the queue. They have two shops close to each other. I would say go there early. Also, go easy with pastries and leave room for other stuff!
Çeşme Bazlama Kahvaltı Nişantaşı 1
A breakfast shop in Nisantasi with small Aegean town concept. Very popular on food scene applications. You might wait a long time on the queue. They have two shops close to each other. I would say go there early. Also, go easy with pastries and leave room for other stuff!
A small shop run by a Palestinian family. I think I first ate there in 2008. Never changed. The same owner, the same quality. Clean, simple, vegetarian friendly, Middle Eastern fast food. Falafel, houmous, tabbouleh & ful.
Falafel House
19/A Şht. Muhtar Bey Cd.A small shop run by a Palestinian family. I think I first ate there in 2008. Never changed. The same owner, the same quality. Clean, simple, vegetarian friendly, Middle Eastern fast food. Falafel, houmous, tabbouleh & ful.
Their main shop in the city Bursa is well-known for a variety of doner kebap since 1867: Iskender kebap. This is Istanbul branch. Close to home. Clean and delicious. Highly recommended.
iskender1867istanbul
Şakayık SokakTheir main shop in the city Bursa is well-known for a variety of doner kebap since 1867: Iskender kebap. This is Istanbul branch. Close to home. Clean and delicious. Highly recommended.
Getting Around
Osmanbey Metro Station
Osmanbey Metro Station.
Cable-car station in Macka Park. Length: 400 metres. Almost a short cut to Taksim after a short walk.
Maçka Parkı Teleferik İstasyonu
Cable-car station in Macka Park. Length: 400 metres. Almost a short cut to Taksim after a short walk.
Port for Bosphorus Tours and for the ferries of Princes' Islands. Bosphorus round trip (Besiktas-Anadolukavagi-Besiktas)
DENTUR AVRASYA ÜSKÜDAR İSKELESİ
Port for Bosphorus Tours and for the ferries of Princes' Islands. Bosphorus round trip (Besiktas-Anadolukavagi-Besiktas)
Tram station to go to historical peninsula.
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Kabataş Tramvay istasyonu
Tram station to go to historical peninsula.
Arts & Culture
I-Museum yase-Istanbul yase-Modern Art
No:1/1 Meşrutiyet Cd.Modern Art Museum
Might be the best contemporary art gallery in Istanbul. Also has a perfect free-working/studying space. Atmosphere, architecture. Free entrance.
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SALT Galata, Istanbul
No:11 Bankalar Cd.Might be the best contemporary art gallery in Istanbul. Also has a perfect free-working/studying space. Atmosphere, architecture. Free entrance.
"The painstaking attention to detail in this fascinating museum/piece of conceptual art will certainly provide every amateur psychologist with a theory or two about its creator, Nobel Prize–winning novelist Orhan Pamuk. Vitrines display a quirky collection of objects that evoke the minutiae of İstanbullu life in the mid- to late 20th century, when Pamuk's novel The Museum of Innocence is set." --Lonely Planet
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I-Museum yase-Innocence
2 Dalgıç Çk."The painstaking attention to detail in this fascinating museum/piece of conceptual art will certainly provide every amateur psychologist with a theory or two about its creator, Nobel Prize–winning novelist Orhan Pamuk. Vitrines display a quirky collection of objects that evoke the minutiae of İstanbullu life in the mid- to late 20th century, when Pamuk's novel The Museum of Innocence is set." --Lonely Planet
I-Pera Museum
65 Meşrutiyet Cd.Sightseeing
I-Dolmabahce Palace
Dolmabahçe CaddesiHistorical Palace
Historical park to home. Popular place for picnic or weekend brunch.
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Yıldız Park
Çırağan CaddesiHistorical park to home. Popular place for picnic or weekend brunch.
Very stylish and elegant mosque. Its environ has nice Bosphorus view. Lots of bijouterie stands! Area is full of restaurants, bars, cafes, baked potatoes, waffles, local pancakes :)
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I-Mosque ye-Büyük Mecidiye (I-Mosque ye-Ortaköy)
No:1 Mecidiye Köprüsü Sk.Very stylish and elegant mosque. Its environ has nice Bosphorus view. Lots of bijouterie stands! Area is full of restaurants, bars, cafes, baked potatoes, waffles, local pancakes :)
Day & Night life. Restaurants, shops, cafes, night clubs, whatever you may need inside or around. Reasonable expensive. A part of Nisantasi lifestyle.
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Reinsurance Market
43 Maçka Cd.Day & Night life. Restaurants, shops, cafes, night clubs, whatever you may need inside or around. Reasonable expensive. A part of Nisantasi lifestyle.
Mawlawi Whirling Dervishes. Check their preforming days and hours.
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I-Galata Mevlevihanesi Museum
No:15 Galip Dede Cd.Mawlawi Whirling Dervishes. Check their preforming days and hours.
A Polish village in a natural park. Spend a beautiful day out there. Hiking. Biking. Restaurants and gardens. Village breakfast or BBQ. 25 km/one hour to Besiktas.
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I-Polonezköy Nature Park
A Polish village in a natural park. Spend a beautiful day out there. Hiking. Biking. Restaurants and gardens. Village breakfast or BBQ. 25 km/one hour to Besiktas.
A very good and highly recommended Turkish hamam.
For ladies 08:00-16:00. For gents 16:30-23.30
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Kilic Ali Paşa Hamam
1 Hamam Sk.A very good and highly recommended Turkish hamam.
For ladies 08:00-16:00. For gents 16:30-23.30
Drinks & Nightlife
Istanbul's leading live music venue. International names are staged on weekends. Local bands hit the stage on weekdays.
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Babylon Bar
Şehbender Sok. No:3,Istanbul's leading live music venue. International names are staged on weekends. Local bands hit the stage on weekdays.
Restaurant&Bar. In summer on the rooftop, NuTeras offers stunning views of the Golden Horn.
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NuTeras
67 Meşrutiyet Cd.Restaurant&Bar. In summer on the rooftop, NuTeras offers stunning views of the Golden Horn.
Agora Tavern in the historical Greek & Sephardic Jewish quarter of the old city. Balat quarter is in UNESCO World Heritage List. Also check Chora Church, St Stephen Bulgarian Church, Patriarchate Church.
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Balat Agora Meyhanesi
No:128 Vodina Cd.Agora Tavern in the historical Greek & Sephardic Jewish quarter of the old city. Balat quarter is in UNESCO World Heritage List. Also check Chora Church, St Stephen Bulgarian Church, Patriarchate Church.
Delicious food and fancy drinks. Fantastic veranda with a great view. Check the wine list. Reservation. Expensive!
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Vogue Restaurant & Bar
No:48 Süleyman Seba CaddesiDelicious food and fancy drinks. Fantastic veranda with a great view. Check the wine list. Reservation. Expensive!
A restaurant & nightclub overlooking the Bosphorus. Pre-book for upstairs and outside. Nice people, nice music.
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Anjelique
5 Salhane Sok.A restaurant & nightclub overlooking the Bosphorus. Pre-book for upstairs and outside. Nice people, nice music.
Owned by the famous jazz guitarist Onder Focan. A cozy small jazz club. Pricey. Better check who's playing first.
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Nardis Jazz Club
8 Galata Kulesi Sk.Owned by the famous jazz guitarist Onder Focan. A cozy small jazz club. Pricey. Better check who's playing first.
Karabatak
No:7 Karaali Kaptan Sk.Retro style hipster coffeehouse.