Eat in Sultanahmet (sultanahmet), Istanbul

Tarihi Sultanahmet Köftecisi Selim Usta ★ 4.2

Tarihi Sultanahmet Köftecisi Selim Usta on Divanyolu, the 1920 original now run by the fourth generation, still grilling its flat charcoal köfte beside piyaz beans.

Signature: Köfte, Piyaz, Lentil soup

Tarihi Sultanahmet Köftecisi ★ 4.1

Tarihi Sultanahmet Köftecisi on Divanyolu, the 1920 charcoal-grill counter still building the canonical Istanbul köfte plate of flat patties, piyaz and lentil soup.

Try: Köfte plate with piyaz

Cooking Alaturka ★ 4.5

Cooking Alaturka in Sultanahmet, the longest-running English-language cooking school in Istanbul, doing a four-hour class plus the meal at the kitchen on Akbıyık Caddesi.

Les Arts Turcs Cooking Class ★ 4.0

Les Arts Turcs runs a Turkish-and-Ottoman cooking class on the third floor of an Incili Çavuş Sokak townhouse, group Mondays and Fridays at 15:00 and private by request.

Tarihi Sultanahmet Köftecisi ★ 4.1

Tarihi Sultanahmet Köftecisi on Divanyolu, the 1920 charcoal-grill bench where four köfte, a piyaz, a soup and an ayran still come in under 280 lira.

Try: Köfte and piyaz plate