Istanbul Night Tasting Trail

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Eat delicious Turkish street food just like the locals do, tasting from the best food carts, street cafés, and other secret spots. Visit a traditional tavern, known as a meyhane, and sample the Turkish alcoholic drink of choice, raki. Hang out with locals in-the-know and enjoy a Turkish coffee in a backstreet café. Stroll through hidden alleyways and learn about the unique food culture of this ancient city that borders both Europe and Asia.

A short journey from Karaköy on the world’s second oldest funicular will take you to the heart of Istanbul’s food scene on this culinary city tour, where you’ll wander through back streets and hidden laneways, feasting as you go. Your local guide will offer insight into the intricacies and traditions of Turkish food culture, and explain about the ingredients and origins of Turkey’s most popular dishes.

Start your Istanbul food tour with some borek, a delicious flaky pastry consisting of several thin layers filled with local cheeses, potato, or meat. Wash it down with a cup of ayran, a yogurt drink that’s considered by many to be the national beverage of Turkey.

Next, you’ll take part in a true local tradition; at the end of a long work day, many Istanbulites sit down for some drinks, tasty food, and good conversation with friends. We’ll pull up a seat at a traditional meyhane (tavern) and join the local scene before moving on to a hidden tea house, famous as a meeting place of the Young Turks political movement from the early 20th century. Moving on, we sample delectable treats from locals’ favourite street food carts, including içli kofte (deep-fried meat balls) and midye dolma (mussels stuffed with rice).

Next, you’ll cleanse the palate with a sample of Turkish delight in the gorgeous, historic Cicek Passage, before grabbing some of Turkey’s famed baklava and çikolata (chocolate) or ice cream from Maras. The tour finishes in the famed entertainment district of Taksim Square; here you’ll stroll the atmospheric backstreets and finish at an alfresco café and bar that’s a popular local haunt with awesome street art and graffiti.

Meeting/pick-up point: The Tünel (The Tunnel) entrance, IETT building in Karaköy, opposite Nordstern Hotel (Kemeralti Cd,Arap Cami Mh., Beyoglu.
Duration: 3.30 hours.
Start/opening time: 6pm.
End/closing time: 9:30pm.
Languages: English.
Others: Drop-off Point: Taksim Square, near Independent Monument and Central Metro Station.