Post-Lockdown, Istanbul's Residents Are Embracing Empty Palaces and Sunset Dance Parties
"Restaurant diners gravitate to rooftop terraces like the newly opened one at Karakoy Lokantasi, while dining rooms have empty tables that seem set for no one and music drifting through unusually clear and smokeless air. Printed menus have been replaced by digital ones retrieved through a QR code and there is disinfectant next to the ashtrays on each table. They are constant reminders of our new carefully calculated reality."
