A Foodie’s Guide to Kadikoy
Istanbulis will argue for hours about where the city’s best food is. The old city has the history, Beyoğlu has the restaurants, the Bosphorus villages have the seafood.

Istanbulis will argue for hours about where the city’s best food is. The old city has the history, Beyoğlu has the restaurants, the Bosphorus villages have the seafood.

Kadikoy is a neighborhood of layers.

Kadikoy is already one of the cheapest parts of Istanbul to visit — a neighborhood that prices for its own residents rather than for tourists, with a ferry ride instead of a hotel premium and a market instead of…

Kadikoy is the neighborhood where Istanbulis argue the best food in the city actually lives.

Most visitors to Istanbul sleep on the European side, close to the monuments, and cross the water only for a day trip to Kadikoy.

Kadikoy is the Asian-side neighborhood that travelers keep discovering, then keep coming back to.

Kadikoy is the neighborhood that makes Istanbul feel like two cities in one. On the European side, the day is a parade of monuments, crowds, and Ottoman grandeur.

Kadıköy is the neighborhood that surprises first-timers most. Most visitors spend their Istanbul trip on the European side — the old city, the avenue, the palaces — and never cross the water.

Beyoglu is a four-season district, and each season sells a different version of it.

Beyoglu is the best-connected district in Istanbul, and that is one of the quiet reasons so many travelers base themselves here.

Beyoglu is the young side of Istanbul — young by this city’s standards, which means only about eight hundred years of history instead of two thousand.

Beyoglu is a photographer’s playground that hands you the composition before you ask for it: the medieval tower on its hill, the bridge full of fishermen, the avenue’s crowds and red tram, the pastel lanes of…
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