Akın Balık ★ 4.0
Akın Balık in Karaköy's fish-market arcade, a waterside lokanta where the waiter walks guests to the ice display to pick the catch and pulls four meze.
OrderGrilled bonito, Cold meze tray, Sea bass
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Fish defines eating along the Bosphorus, from waterside meyhane tables to the simple grilled catch of the day. Akın Balık sits right on the water in Karaköy, while Adem Baba up in the old fishing village of Arnavutköy is a long-standing name for a no-frills seafood lunch by the strait.
Adem Baba ★ 4.4
Adem Baba on Beyaz Gül Caddesi, a 1992-founded Arnavutköy fish lokantası where the catch comes off Bosphorus boats moored outside and the family runs three.
TipWalk in for lunch on a weekday; no reservations, and the fried calamari and grilled day-catch go fastest.
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