Rumelihisarı İskele

A glass pavilion right on the Bosphorus, where the view competes hard with the food and neither quite wins. This is a classic Istanbul seafood restaurant: mezze arrive at the table without your asking, then you walk up and choose your fish and tell them how you want it cooked. The kitchen keeps things clean and direct, letting the fish do the talking. Boats drift past the window the whole time, which makes it easy to lose an entire afternoon.