For a stay in Beşiktaş

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For a stay in Beşiktaş

Parks & Nature

Green valley very close to home. Jogging, yoga, hanging out...
204 locals recommend
Maçka Democracy Park
Mim Kemal Öke Caddesi
204 locals recommend
Green valley very close to home. Jogging, yoga, hanging out...
Great for a walk in the waterfront and taking fresh air by Bosphorus in fancy district with cafes, restaurants and bars.
33 locals recommend
Bebek Park
No:16 Bebek Parkı
33 locals recommend
Great for a walk in the waterfront and taking fresh air by Bosphorus in fancy district with cafes, restaurants and bars.
Hike on its trails, do biking or picnic. You can BBQ in a select area. Nature parks, marshes, historical reservoirs. The Valens Aquaduct runs through the Forest.
Belgrad Forest
Hike on its trails, do biking or picnic. You can BBQ in a select area. Nature parks, marshes, historical reservoirs. The Valens Aquaduct runs through the Forest.

Shopping

A mall. Close, nice and small. Check the ''Mahalle'' at the roof. It's like Eataly. Various delicious cuisines under the same roof. Directly the 5th with elevator.
173 locals recommend
City's Nişantaşı
12 Teşvikiye Cd.
173 locals recommend
A mall. Close, nice and small. Check the ''Mahalle'' at the roof. It's like Eataly. Various delicious cuisines under the same roof. Directly the 5th with elevator.
Fish Market.
13 locals recommend
Besiktas Fish Market
Mumcu Bakkal Sokağı
13 locals recommend
Fish Market.
In front of this bookstore, you can find Besiktas-Taksim share taxi stop. There is also two bus stops to go Taksim or Eminonu (historical peninsula, close to spice bazaar).
Alkim Kitabevi
No:29/31 Beşiktaş Caddesi
In front of this bookstore, you can find Besiktas-Taksim share taxi stop. There is also two bus stops to go Taksim or Eminonu (historical peninsula, close to spice bazaar).
You can do your grocery shopping. Better vegetables & fruits here.
Namlı Hipermarket
You can do your grocery shopping. Better vegetables & fruits here.
You can do your grocery shopping. Competitive prices here. Where you can also buy credit for Istanbul-card.
Şok Market
You can do your grocery shopping. Competitive prices here. Where you can also buy credit for Istanbul-card.
You can do your grocery shopping.
Macro Center
You can do your grocery shopping.
You can do your grocery shopping. It is the largest supermarket around the house.
23 locals recommend
MM Migros
23 locals recommend
You can do your grocery shopping. It is the largest supermarket around the house.
The post office... After the office, pass the Syrian Consulate on your left and you'll reach Tesvikiye-Taksim share-taxi stop, which is 5 min walk from the flat and the ride reaches Taksim in 5 minutes. First you sit and wait in the share taxi, it gets full in 4-10 minutes depending on the hour of the day.
10 locals recommend
PTT
16 Maçka Cad.
10 locals recommend
The post office... After the office, pass the Syrian Consulate on your left and you'll reach Tesvikiye-Taksim share-taxi stop, which is 5 min walk from the flat and the ride reaches Taksim in 5 minutes. First you sit and wait in the share taxi, it gets full in 4-10 minutes depending on the hour of the day.

Food Scene

Quality international kitchen
17 locals recommend
Midpoint
No: 59 Abdi İpekçi Cd.
17 locals recommend
Quality international kitchen
Quality kitchen, reasonable prices.
19 locals recommend
Cookshop
No:10/2 Bostan Sk.
19 locals recommend
Quality kitchen, reasonable prices.
Far East Kitchen
15 locals recommend
Sushico
No:21 Mim Kemal Öke Cd.
15 locals recommend
Far East Kitchen
Quality kitchen
19 locals recommend
Kirinti
No: 28 Abdi İpekçi Caddesi
19 locals recommend
Quality kitchen
Very nice cafe-restaurant. For open air seaside tables, you should prebook.
44 locals recommend
The House Cafe Ortaköy
1 Ortaköy Salhanesi Sk.
44 locals recommend
Very nice cafe-restaurant. For open air seaside tables, you should prebook.
The oldest bakery shop of Besiktas. Great breads and other floury beauties. Make sure you decide what you will buy while you're on the queue!
9 locals recommend
7-8 Hasanpaşa Fırını
No:8 Şht. Asım Cd.
9 locals recommend
The oldest bakery shop of Besiktas. Great breads and other floury beauties. Make sure you decide what you will buy while you're on the queue!
Cakmak Breakfast Shop is on what locals of Besiktas call breakfast street. Lots of breakfast shops and students. Breakfast & brunch. Try CREAM&HONEY for sure! PISHI is other must eat.
12 locals recommend
Çakmak Kahvaltı Salonu
No:6 Çelebi Oğlu Sk.
12 locals recommend
Cakmak Breakfast Shop is on what locals of Besiktas call breakfast street. Lots of breakfast shops and students. Breakfast & brunch. Try CREAM&HONEY for sure! PISHI is other must eat.
Quality Ottoman kitchen in the very traditional area: Uskudar. Humble decoration, great meal and desserts.
25 locals recommend
Kanaat Lokantası
9 Selmani Pak Cd.
25 locals recommend
Quality Ottoman kitchen in the very traditional area: Uskudar. Humble decoration, great meal and desserts.
A famous traditional restaurant among the locals for lunch and dinner.
160 locals recommend
Karaköy Lokantası
No:57 Kemankeş Cd.
160 locals recommend
A famous traditional restaurant among the locals for lunch and dinner.
A simple setting where locals drink and eat out. Behind the fish market under the Galata Bridge. Be there during sunset and stay late for fresh fish, meze and raki. Reasonable prices. Call first to book one of the front tables.
59 locals recommend
Akın Balık
No:40/A Fermeneciler Cd.
59 locals recommend
A simple setting where locals drink and eat out. Behind the fish market under the Galata Bridge. Be there during sunset and stay late for fresh fish, meze and raki. Reasonable prices. Call first to book one of the front tables.
The most well known place for delicious Turkish dessert Baklava. A lot of different kinds of baklava. One and only.
151 locals recommend
Karakoy Gulluoglu
No:67 Kemankeş Caddesi
151 locals recommend
The most well known place for delicious Turkish dessert Baklava. A lot of different kinds of baklava. One and only.
Best Indian food in town. Hilton Hotel.
Dubb Indian Bosphorus Restaurant
Best Indian food in town. Hilton Hotel.
Best Chinese in town. Shangri-La Hotel.
Shang Palace
Best Chinese in town. Shangri-La Hotel.
A breakfast shop in Nisantasi with small Aegean town concept. Very popular on food scene applications. You might wait a long time on the queue. They have two shops close to each other. I would say go there early. Also, go easy with pastries and leave room for other stuff!
Çeşme Bazlama Kahvaltı Nişantaşı 1
A breakfast shop in Nisantasi with small Aegean town concept. Very popular on food scene applications. You might wait a long time on the queue. They have two shops close to each other. I would say go there early. Also, go easy with pastries and leave room for other stuff!
A small shop run by a Palestinian family. I think I first ate there in 2008. Never changed. The same owner, the same quality. Clean, simple, vegetarian friendly, Middle Eastern fast food. Falafel, houmous, tabbouleh & ful.
Falafel House
19/A Şht. Muhtar Bey Cd.
A small shop run by a Palestinian family. I think I first ate there in 2008. Never changed. The same owner, the same quality. Clean, simple, vegetarian friendly, Middle Eastern fast food. Falafel, houmous, tabbouleh & ful.
Their main shop in the city Bursa is well-known for a variety of doner kebap since 1867: Iskender kebap. This is Istanbul branch. Close to home. Clean and delicious. Highly recommended.
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Şakayık Sokak
Their main shop in the city Bursa is well-known for a variety of doner kebap since 1867: Iskender kebap. This is Istanbul branch. Close to home. Clean and delicious. Highly recommended.

Getting Around

Osmanbey Metro Station.
117 locals recommend
Osmanbey Metro Station
117 locals recommend
Osmanbey Metro Station.
Cable-car station in Macka Park. Length: 400 metres. Almost a short cut to Taksim after a short walk.
Maçka Parkı Teleferik İstasyonu
Cable-car station in Macka Park. Length: 400 metres. Almost a short cut to Taksim after a short walk.
Port for Bosphorus Tours and for the ferries of Princes' Islands. Bosphorus round trip (Besiktas-Anadolukavagi-Besiktas)
DENTUR AVRASYA ÜSKÜDAR İSKELESİ
Port for Bosphorus Tours and for the ferries of Princes' Islands. Bosphorus round trip (Besiktas-Anadolukavagi-Besiktas)
Tram station to go to historical peninsula.
34 locals recommend
Kabataş Tramvay istasyonu
34 locals recommend
Tram station to go to historical peninsula.

Arts & Culture

Modern Art Museum
618 locals recommend
Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
No:1/1 Meşrutiyet Cd.
618 locals recommend
Modern Art Museum
Might be the best contemporary art gallery in Istanbul. Also has a perfect free-working/studying space. Atmosphere, architecture. Free entrance.
209 locals recommend
SALT Galata, Istanbul
No:11 Bankalar Cd.
209 locals recommend
Might be the best contemporary art gallery in Istanbul. Also has a perfect free-working/studying space. Atmosphere, architecture. Free entrance.
"The painstaking attention to detail in this fascinating museum/piece of conceptual art will certainly provide every amateur psychologist with a theory or two about its creator, Nobel Prize–winning novelist Orhan Pamuk. Vitrines display a quirky collection of objects that evoke the minutiae of İstanbullu life in the mid- to late 20th century, when Pamuk's novel The Museum of Innocence is set." --Lonely Planet
192 locals recommend
Museum of Innocence
2 Dalgıç Çk.
192 locals recommend
"The painstaking attention to detail in this fascinating museum/piece of conceptual art will certainly provide every amateur psychologist with a theory or two about its creator, Nobel Prize–winning novelist Orhan Pamuk. Vitrines display a quirky collection of objects that evoke the minutiae of İstanbullu life in the mid- to late 20th century, when Pamuk's novel The Museum of Innocence is set." --Lonely Planet
281 locals recommend
Pera Museum
65 Meşrutiyet Cd.
281 locals recommend

Sightseeing

Historical Palace
580 locals recommend
Dolmabahce Palace
Dolmabahçe Caddesi
580 locals recommend
Historical Palace
Historical park to home. Popular place for picnic or weekend brunch.
195 locals recommend
Yildiz Park
Çırağan Caddesi
195 locals recommend
Historical park to home. Popular place for picnic or weekend brunch.
Very stylish and elegant mosque. Its environ has nice Bosphorus view. Lots of bijouterie stands! Area is full of restaurants, bars, cafes, baked potatoes, waffles, local pancakes :)
218 locals recommend
Büyük Mecidiye Mosque (Ortaköy Mosque)
No:1 Mecidiye Köprüsü Sk.
218 locals recommend
Very stylish and elegant mosque. Its environ has nice Bosphorus view. Lots of bijouterie stands! Area is full of restaurants, bars, cafes, baked potatoes, waffles, local pancakes :)
Day & Night life. Restaurants, shops, cafes, night clubs, whatever you may need inside or around. Reasonable expensive. A part of Nisantasi lifestyle.
7 locals recommend
Reinsurance Market
43 Maçka Cd.
7 locals recommend
Day & Night life. Restaurants, shops, cafes, night clubs, whatever you may need inside or around. Reasonable expensive. A part of Nisantasi lifestyle.
Mawlawi Whirling Dervishes. Check their preforming days and hours.
151 locals recommend
Galata Mevlevi Museum
No:15 Galip Dede Cd.
151 locals recommend
Mawlawi Whirling Dervishes. Check their preforming days and hours.
A Polish village in a natural park. Spend a beautiful day out there. Hiking. Biking. Restaurants and gardens. Village breakfast or BBQ. 25 km/one hour to Besiktas.
16 locals recommend
Polonezköy Nature Park
16 locals recommend
A Polish village in a natural park. Spend a beautiful day out there. Hiking. Biking. Restaurants and gardens. Village breakfast or BBQ. 25 km/one hour to Besiktas.
A very good and highly recommended Turkish hamam. For ladies 08:00-16:00. For gents 16:30-23.30
105 locals recommend
Kilic Ali Paşa Hamam
1 Hamam Sk.
105 locals recommend
A very good and highly recommended Turkish hamam. For ladies 08:00-16:00. For gents 16:30-23.30

Drinks & Nightlife

Istanbul's leading live music venue. International names are staged on weekends. Local bands hit the stage on weekdays.
118 locals recommend
Babylon Bar
Şehbender Sok. No:3,
118 locals recommend
Istanbul's leading live music venue. International names are staged on weekends. Local bands hit the stage on weekdays.
Restaurant&Bar. In summer on the rooftop, NuTeras offers stunning views of the Golden Horn.
38 locals recommend
NuTeras
67 Meşrutiyet Cd.
38 locals recommend
Restaurant&Bar. In summer on the rooftop, NuTeras offers stunning views of the Golden Horn.
Agora Tavern in the historical Greek & Sephardic Jewish quarter of the old city. Balat quarter is in UNESCO World Heritage List. Also check Chora Church, St Stephen Bulgarian Church, Patriarchate Church.
18 locals recommend
Balat Agora Meyhanesi
No:128 Vodina Cd.
18 locals recommend
Agora Tavern in the historical Greek & Sephardic Jewish quarter of the old city. Balat quarter is in UNESCO World Heritage List. Also check Chora Church, St Stephen Bulgarian Church, Patriarchate Church.
Delicious food and fancy drinks. Fantastic veranda with a great view. Check the wine list. Reservation. Expensive!
39 locals recommend
Vogue Restaurant & Bar
No:48 Süleyman Seba Caddesi
39 locals recommend
Delicious food and fancy drinks. Fantastic veranda with a great view. Check the wine list. Reservation. Expensive!
A restaurant & nightclub overlooking the Bosphorus. Pre-book for upstairs and outside. Nice people, nice music.
46 locals recommend
Anjelique
5 Salhane Sok.
46 locals recommend
A restaurant & nightclub overlooking the Bosphorus. Pre-book for upstairs and outside. Nice people, nice music.
Owned by the famous jazz guitarist Onder Focan. A cozy small jazz club. Pricey. Better check who's playing first.
135 locals recommend
Nardis Jazz Club
8 Galata Kulesi Sk.
135 locals recommend
Owned by the famous jazz guitarist Onder Focan. A cozy small jazz club. Pricey. Better check who's playing first.
Retro style hipster coffeehouse.
90 locals recommend
Karabatak
No:7 Karaali Kaptan Sk.
90 locals recommend
Retro style hipster coffeehouse.