Cakehouse

Cake House is our cosy cafe getaway from the crowds down at Besiktas, try their homemade cakes and pastries and then hang around all afternoon and indulge in dinner and tea. ...

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Cloud Nine Patisserie

This mother and daughter run patisserie café create delicious, humble and visually beautiful pastries, cakes, biscuits, tarts and muffins and we just adore it! If you’re lucky to c...

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Pappa Cafe

Light floods in through stained glass windows of the ground floor of this nostalgic building, hitting the high timber ceilings, velvet sofas and green glass bottles hanging inside ...

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Holy Coffee

In a neighborhood not short of a cafe or two, Holy Coffee’s white exterior stands out amongst the curving streets and bohemian architecture of the Çukurcuma neighborhood. For the thoughtful and creative mi...

Kronotrop

Coffee addicts, gather around! You are not alone and you now have a place for refuge. Ezgi Ünlü introduces us to coffee stop Kronotrop, where we find coffee from a variety of areas and different regions. U...

Heirloom

Delicate, precise, seasonal and regional, this is the philosophy produced and shared at Café Heirloom in Cihangir. A particularly important specialty here is the special process of coffee making. Served on...

Mangerie

Bebek’s uptown cafe splurge is best experienced at Mangerie, a simple and cosy cafe with views that deserve to be eaten breakfast while watching! And Mangerie does a superb breakfa...

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Çiçek İşleri

This charming little cafe and gift shop offers the most delicate Turkish coffee to grab in hand and stroll around looking through traditional Turkish scarves and kerchiefs, olive o...

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Selamlique

Beyond the traditional conventions of traditional Turkish coffee is an innovative experience that comes in the ultra modern packaging of the Selamlique Turkish coffee range. From an array of flavored coffe...

Hazal Yılmaz

Growing up in Beyoğlu, blogger Hazal Yılmaz shares her fond childhood memories of Karaköy and how the suburb later came to be a surprisingly popular suburb new cultures, people, sounds, tastes and activity...

Balkon Sefası

Natural sunlight floods through the ceiling high windows at this comfortable and familiar cafe all the way at the beginning of Kumbaracı Hill in Tophane. As well as an assortment o...

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Mums Cafe

I imagine mothers would be happy to have their children fed at Mum’s Cafe in Fransız Geçidi in Karaköy. Their dishes are wholesome and full of goodness, and most importantly, are f...

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Dostlar Kıraathanesi

Coffee shops blend into the Istanbul scenery like cats, bird and breadshops… But have you dared to ever look a little longer when we past them by? Men’s culture is not so much of a movement as it is inside...

Mandabatmaz

We circle the city of culinary stories, and Istanbul offers us the world. What we always circle back to in the city’s colorful culture of food and drink, is Turkish coffee… The humble and traditional Turki...

Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi

It could not be the Spice Bazaar without the familiar wafting of the most perfectly potent Turkish coffee roasted, packeted and sold in a most magnificent efficiency at Mehmet Efendi. The workshop-like aut...