Istanbul Restaurants

Fine seafood cuisine in prime Istanbul tourist territory

Advantages: Excellent seafood, good value for money, good tourist location
Disadvantages: I'm about 20km away from it

...instinctively liked and I favoured Pasha, as it seemed to have a decent seafood menu, so in we went. It also helped that the hawker at the front didn’t try to aggressively to get us to come in. He did of course give us the spiel as we hovered around the menu outside but I would have been shocked if he didn’t. THE RESTAURANT The restaurant had a pleasant if unspectacular interior; at first sight there was nothing really to distinguish it as ...
...be anywhere in the world. Perhaps this was a good sign, as the food might be paramount in such a place. It didn’t take long though to note some local touches. A portrait of what appeared to be one of the Ottoman Empire sultans ordained the wall above a wine rack, with a portrait similar in style of a lady hung on the wall next to our table. Thanks to the large windows at the front there was plenty of light entering the building. The lower floor ...

larsbaby 16.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Pasha, Istanbul

The sweet taste of Sultanahmet

Advantages: Great coffee, nice pastries, good atmosphere
Disadvantages: Can be very crowded at times, full of tourists

...coffee break whilst wandering along Sultanahmet. It is certainly different from the proliferation of Starbucks and suchlike in the area, and it has a unique charm all of its own. CONTACT DETAILS Çigdem Pastanesi Divan Yolu Caddesi 62A, Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey. Tel - 526 8859 ...

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Review of Çigdem Pastanesi, Istanbul

The authentic side of Istanbul dining

Advantages: Excellent food, great service, even some vegetarian options, authentic local dining
Disadvantages: Meat laden menu, no fish offered, calorie count off the scale, miles away from any tourist area

INTRODUCTION Having agreed to work in Turkey for a couple of months, I thought that I'd be somewhere near the bright lights of Istanbul. Surely the historic mosques, the bazaars, the relentless bartering and the crazy fusion of East meets West would be waiting for me? Would my first ever visit to Turkey have a frission of excitement to it? Erm, actually, no. As an engineer, I find that our customer locations where the telephone exchanges I ...
...possible, with the sales and marketing guys of course right in the centre of town. You might have gathered this from my previous critique from Beckton, East London. Sadly, foreign companies are just as cheap, and in this case the customer office (itself very nice I must say) is 20 or so km out from the city centre, on the Asia side of the city. Perhaps the logic is to avoid the apparently ridiculous Istanbul traffic congestion (have they been to ...

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Review of Ünlüer Et, Istanbul