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Istanbul Restaurants
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Istanbul Restaurant Reviews
Istanbul is a food lover's town. Restaurants abound, from humble kebab joints to fancy fish restaurants, with lots of excellent options in between. Istanbulites take their food seriously, holding dining establishments to a very high standard: they expect service to be prompt and polite, the restaurant to be spotless, and most importantly, the food to be made with the freshest of ingredients. The places that cater mostly to tourists are the ones that might let their standards slip. Turkish cuisine varies from region to region, and Istanbul, owing to its location on the Bosphorus, which connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, is famous for seafood. A classic Istanbul meal, usually eaten at one of the city's rollicking meyhanes (literally "drinking places"), starts off with a wide selection of tapas-style small appetizers called mezes and then moves on to a main course of grilled fish, all of it accompanied by the anise-flavored spirit raki, Turkey's national drink. Fish can be expensive, so check prices and ask what's in season before ordering. More »
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