Fahri Konsolos

Overall, this spot is the best cocktail bar we visited while in Istanbul. The bartender is clearly passionate about creating cocktails using Turkish flavors. The space is small, but the menu comes with nine different drinks. For a more sweet and sour mix, get the Gul-I-Bar. The sweet pink foam mixes well with the sour green base. My housemate got the Mandini, which comes with parsley chips as a garnish. So unique! It’s more pricey compared to other bars, but worth the price. (It’s around $18 per drink.)

Super cool little spot, it’s very small and cozy with good music and awesome friendly staff. All their drinks are phenomenal. They are super creative and the flavors are very unique. They make all their own ingredients for the drinks and have a rotating seasonal menu. It would be hard to find a bar quite like this one anywhere else and it’s absolutely worth a visit!

First time travel to Istanbul and find this bar using very local ingredients in their signature cocktails, special experience for a foreigner lile me. Service is good, bartender always care about our experience.

Phenomenal cocktails! Got the Mediterranean herb one and the foam was incredible with the drink being smokey and dynamic. Truly a fantastic cocktail in a little neighborhood bar. The waitress was so kind, spoke great English, and made great recommendations

Beat cocktails every in my life, i had a fun time , music is awesome I would highly recommend it You have to try it

True cocktail haven! Honestly, I’m not sure if there’s another place in Istanbul with such a unique cocktail menu. The team is constantly experimenting with new recipes, and they update the menu regularly based on the season. The best part? No store-bought syrups—everything is made in-house, fresh and natural. Foamed boza, pulverized and shaped as christmas tree roasted chickpeas, kiln-dried parsley, ayran.. Their signature cocktails must be Mardini and Martı as they are very old in the menu. The bartenders are super friendly and love sharing the stories behind each cocktail, which makes the experience even more enjoyable. For intance, Halıperendân has Iranian Zereşk grapes in it so the name comes from Aladdin as eating these grapes while flying on his carpet. Lastly, you’ll notice that some cocktails are served in copper mugs and prepared in silver-plated shakers from Soy, a brand owned by the bar’s founder, Emir Ali Enç.

This bar was fantastic. The bartenders were so nice and professional. The drinks were delicious and every drink had an interesting back story. Sit at the bar and hang with the bartenders!

Top 3 cocktail bars in Istanbul. If you are looking for a place that puts the Special in specialty cocktails it’s here. They refuse to make anything but their primal unusual concoctions and why should they? This is the serious literature of the cocktail bar world, it’s not accessible, you have to seek to understand it. It’s not worth naming any drink here because the menu changes but expect curated unusual drinks on a menu that begs more questions than it answers. Asking the waiter about the drinks is mandatory you will not be able to guess what it is from the menu. It’s delightful! so many bars will swap some ingredients around in a Negroni and call it something else but not here. There are no analogous drinks to what they will serve you. Prepare to test the limits of your senses.