A Foodie’s Guide to Karakoy
Karakoy is the food capital of the new Istanbul — the quarter where the city’s dining life happens.

Karakoy is the food capital of the new Istanbul — the quarter where the city’s dining life happens.

Karakoy has a public face — the bridge and the balık ekmek, the Istanbul Modern and the coffee shops — and most visitors never see past it.

Karakoy has a reputation as the fashionable quarter — the coffee shops and the design hotels, the galleries and the trendy restaurants — and it can be exactly that if you let it.

Karakoy is the dining quarter of the new Istanbul — the waterfront where the fish sandwiches of the bridge sit beside the specialty coffee and the fashionable dinners, where the working meyhanes of the port…

Karakoy is the fashionable base of modern Istanbul — the waterfront quarter where the ferries cross and the cruise ships dock, where the galleries and the coffee shops fill the old warehouses, and where the tram…

Karakoy is the gateway quarter of Istanbul — the port at the mouth of the Golden Horn, where the bridge spans and the ferries cross, where the old banks rise behind the new galleries, and where the fish…

Two days is exactly the right amount of time for Karakoy — long enough to walk the quarter whole and to cross its water, and short enough to keep the energy of the port’s new life.

Karakoy is the waterfront quarter at the mouth of the Golden Horn — the old port of Istanbul reborn as the city’s most fashionable corner.
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