Beyaz Fırın Etiler ★ 4.1
Beyaz Fırın in Etiler, a heritage Turkish bakery dating to 1836, working out of a two-floor Nispetiye Caddesi space with a vertical garden and a 350-seat patisserie.
Worth the queue: Pogaca cheese rolls
Bakeries in beşiktaş
Bars in beşiktaş
Alexandra Cocktail Bar ★ 4.4
Alexandra, the Arnavutköy cocktail room from the team behind Istanbul's earliest serious cocktail bar, working with house-made syrups and high-grade Turkish spirits.
Signature drink: House-syrup classics and Turkish-twist cocktails
Food: Bar snacks
Breweries in beşiktaş
Craft Beer Lab ★ 4.1
Craft Beer Lab on a Beşiktaş side street, a multi-tap bar pouring the broadest Turkish craft selection in the city with an outdoor garden seating 100.
Markets in beşiktaş
Beşiktaş Cumartesi Pazarı ★ 4.2
Beşiktaş Cumartesi Pazarı, a 400-stall Saturday market spread across a multi-floor car-park building, produce on the ground floor and household goods upstairs.
Cooking Classes in beşiktaş
Turkish Flavours Cooking Class ★ 4.3
Turkish Flavours runs private and group cooking classes in a Beşiktaş home kitchen, taught by a born-and-bred Istanbulite with a market run in the same morning.
Brunch in beşiktaş
Beyaz Fırın Brasserie ★ 4.0
Beyaz Fırın in Etiler, the heritage bakery's brasserie sister doing a full Turkish breakfast on the upper deck and bottomless pastry baskets from its own ovens.
Order: Sucuklu yumurta and the pogaca basket