Zazie

Zazie
5 *****
Zazie, recently crowned Time Out Food and Drink Award’s Best New Restaurant, is one of those places that, the minute the doors swish shut and you enter the intimately lit bar, transports you to Any European Cosmopolitan City. Was it packed out on a Monday night because it has just won or did [...]

Kosinitza

5 *****
Fish restaurants in Istanbul can get a bit samey, varying only in how much they charge for simple plates of grilled or fried fish. Kosinitza, a Time Out Food and Drink Award nominee, allows far more scope for originality by using fish and seafood as ingredients in dishes, rather than as the only [...]

Helvetia

General Yazgan Sok: 12, Asmalı Mescit, Beyoğlu
Open daily, from lunch to 12am
3 ***
Amongst the trendy bars, boisterous meyhanes and ‘in’ places to eat in Asmalı Mescit, Helvetia is an unassuming, almost unmarked, place that beckons you in with a warm hug rather than a ‘Daahling! Mwah, mwah’. A holidaying New York Times journalist [...]