Monday

İstiridye Balık Lokantası: The Business of Lunch

Just as we thought we had managed to break out of our Beyoğlu dining rut, we found ourselves once again trawling the neighborhood’s streets for places to eat. To be more specific, we found ourselves walking along Mumhane Caddesi, a street in the waterfront Karaköy area that has so many good restaurants along it that it acts as a kind of culinary vortex, radiating a magnetic pull that we find hard to resist.

This time around, the street’s siren call was İstiridye Balık Lokantası, an old-fashioned fish restaurant that caters to a lunchtime crowd of local office workers and executives. Continue…

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