The waterfront port district offers historic apartment living with some of the best views in the city and easy access to high ...

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Boarding the ferry to Kadıköy is a popular way to get a glimpse of the Bosphorus and experience ... You’ll find plenty of meyhane restaurants in the Osmanağa neighbourhood but Piraye Taş ...

But the place is full of great restaurants (Ricky’s River Bar and ... from when I first came the insane busyness of the Bosphorus hasn’t changed. In the 1970s I seem to remember being in ...

It’s quintessential Istanbul for me. There’s a lovely fish restaurant called Uskumru, right on the Bosphorus under the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge. To get there, you take their private boat over.