Karaköy Lokantası
Restaurant · Kemankeskaramustafapasa
Kemankeş Mahallesi, Kemankeş Cd. No:57, 34425 Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Türkiye
Highlights
Ottoman food, colorful tiles, 80 mezze, rooftop terrace
Ottoman food, colorful tiles, 80 mezze, rooftop terrace
"A popular restaurant known for serving some of the best mezze, including dishes like mince-stuffed zucchini, artichokes in olive oil, and lamb stew."
"Beautifully light hummus and tzatziki, crispy dumplings with yoghurt sauce, lamb börek... With a selection of 80 mezze, a whole host of sharing platters and other traditional dishes, you're spoilt for choice. This is understandably a popular place, where the quiet terrace and sea blue tiled wall are a feast for the eyes. Delicious food and great value for money!" - Michelin Inspector
"A modern tradesmen restaurant by day and a meyhane (tavern) by night, Karaköy is popular among white-collar workers, artists, writers, and lovers of good food from Istanbul and abroad. At lunch, diners choose from a daily menu, while at night they line up to choose mezes from a display case. Options often include olive oil-braised artichokes, fried liver, spinach roots cooked with olive oil, kidney bean salad, crispy fried zucchini, calamari, octopus, and seasonal fish. Reservations are only offered for dinner and tables can be hard to come by, so reserve a week in advance or try your luck walking in for lunch." - Tuba Şatana
"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 Printed menus have been replaced by digital ones retrieved through a QR code and there is disinfectant next to the ashtrays on each table.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."
Yutong Dong
Ayşe Özyılmazel
Farid Hamka
Tingting Lin
Rovik Robert
Mariam B (mariamtea)
Armand
Teja Vrščaj
