Istanbul: The Tasting City — Drinks & Plates

Kadıköy doesn’t perform Istanbul — it lives it. On this evening walk through the Asian side’s most spirited neighbourhood, you’ll taste your way through centuries of drinking culture: from an Ottoman confectioner founded in 1777 to a wine bar pouring Anatolia’s oldest grape varieties, from a century-old pastry house to a meyhane where the rakı flows as the evening settles over the city. Seven stops. Seven stories: Turkish coffee, şerbet, çay, craft beer, native wine, limonata, rakı — each one rooted in a place, a tradition, a moment in this city’s long and layered history. One neighbourhood that quietly holds more of Istanbul’s soul than any postcard ever could. Maximum 12 guests. No tourist trail. Just the Asian shore, as locals know it.