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The name comes from the musky note of the Concord grape, which tells you something about how seriously this casual Nişantaşı wine bar and kitchen takes the small details. The team behind the Michelin-starred Neolokal runs this looser, more relaxed offshoot, pairing an all-Turkish wine list, natural to classic, with a modern spin on local food. The house cat does a slow circuit of the room and nobody seems bothered.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A cosy Turkish restaurant tucked into the Nişantaşı streets, where Anatolian home cooking gets a Bib Gourmand nod without anyone making a fuss about it. The menu reads like a tour of the country's regional traditions, and the kitchen cooks with the kind of generosity that makes you order one more thing than you planned. A good mix of locals and visitors fills the room across the whole day, which tells you something.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

Stained-glass windows and marble finishings give this old-school Nişantaşı kebab spot a look that somehow feels both neighborhood canteen and faded drawing room. It's been around forever, and the regulars clearly never considered going anywhere else. The Gaziantep-style lahmacun, loaded with vegetables and parsley, and the lamb sausage and minced beef kebab are the ones everyone orders. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks with the prices.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The seventh floor of the Atatürk Cultural Centre, right on Taksim Square, puts this contemporary Turkish restaurant at a height where the terrace view across the city and the Bosphorus does a lot of the heavy lifting. Inside, it's elegant and modern with a proper bar. The menu takes traditional Turkish dishes through a contemporary lens, layering flavors in ways that make the food interesting without losing what made the original worth reworking.

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A grand piano anchors the first room, and if you show up when someone is playing, the whole dining room shifts a little. Lokanta is the restaurant inside the old Divan Hotel near Taksim, and it carries the same formal, unhurried energy as the building around it. The menu is à la carte and modern Turkish, drawing on regional ingredients with enough ambition to feel like an occasion. Dress accordingly.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Sitting inside the Divan hotel in Beyoğlu, Maromi is a sushi restaurant where the counter seats are the ones to ask for. The chef works close enough to watch each piece come together, octopus and pickled daikon settled into warm rice, salmon rolled in toasted sesame with a chilli kick. You can order à la carte or hand the decisions over entirely with the omakase. A Michelin Selected pick.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Nobu needs no introduction, and the Istanbul outpost earns its spot by leaning into the view: the terrace looks out over the Bosphorus toward the Asian shore, which is quite a thing to have behind your sushi. Inside, the room runs minimalist and polished, the kind of place where the lighting flatters everyone. The kitchen blends modern Japanese technique with South American inflection, and the omakase is the clearest way to understand what the team is up to.

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The smoked salmon pizza on the menu is your first clue that Wolfgang Puck is running the kitchen. This rooftop restaurant sits atop the St. Regis in Nişantaşı, with terrace views over Istanbul that do most of the selling. The menu wanders freely through California, Italy, and Asia, sharing plates of duck spring rolls alongside modern sushi, held together by the kind of confidence that doesn't need to pick a lane.

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The Bloody Mary here is made with raki, which tells you almost everything. This is the brasserie inside the St. Regis Nişantaşı, polished and unhurried, the kind of room where the menu wanders confidently from Turkish mezze to gyoza to Italian risotto without apologizing for it. The kebab with meatballs, grilled peppers, and a yogurt-butter sauce is the house signature, and portions land on the generous side of luxurious.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

On the seventh floor of a Beyoğlu hotel, this rooftop restaurant trades on a panorama of Istanbul that makes it hard to focus on the menu, which would be a shame. The kitchen leans Mediterranean with a Turkish lean-back, braising and slow-cooking its way through bold flavors. A cocktail bar keeps things going after dinner for anyone unwilling to surrender the view just yet.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

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