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    Fıccın

    4.3 (58 reviews)
    Closed 8:00 am - 1:00 AM (Next day)

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    Casual
    Dogs allowed
    Good for kids

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    Chrys S.

    One of the best meals I had in Istanbul was at Ficcin. The restaurant is located in a trendy area so the restaurants are typically expensive but Ficcin keeps their prices low and the food is amazing. It's Circassian aka Northern Caucasian food along with Turkish specialties. The lamb cooked in a crock was beautifully flavored and amazingly tender. It was my favorite dish. The Ficcin special is sort of like minced meat cooked within a pizza-like dough served with salad. The look can be deceiving because it's more delicious than it appears and the salad was fresh and vibrant. The Circassian ravioli was unlike any other ravioli I've ever had. It was stuffed with cheese and meat and had this yogurt sauce on top. Incredibly good! Definitely make this a stop if you are visiting Istanbul. The servers are helpful and you can ask for an English menu. Try to visit during non-busy hours. We came just before lunch and thought, wow it's pretty empty. Within 5 minutes of noon, it was packed. Every table was filled and every time someone left a table, there was another party waiting to sit there. We were happy to have come early enough to snag a table.

    Axelle A.

    Ficcin restaurant was one of our two favorites during our stay in Istanbul and we liked it so much that we even planned to come back a second time but unfortunately we could not in the end. It offers a delicious cuisine from Caucasus and prices are really correct given the quality and taste. We had different dishes that we shared and it was indeed a good idea to taste more things. As dishes are quite small, you can easily take 3 or 4 for two persons. We had of course the specialty: some delicious raviolis from Caucasus (with some yogurt on top, after all we are in Turkey!) that i highly recommend. We also had a cold fish that was incredibly tasty, i was surprised because i was not betting on this dish initially.. We also had a dish of cooked cheese with peas, that can sound like a weird dish to conceive; but again: delicious!! So to sum up, absolutely go there, the cuisine is delicious. And i will not forget the dessert that was exceptional. It was a cake made of almonds and it looked like a delicious, delicious madeleine (type of French sponge finger cake).

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    We had the borek and I forget which other dishes but it was one of the better meals we had. I'd like to try the manti.

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    Menu in English was helpful. Service can be improved. I didn't enjoy the shrimp casserole.

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    Incredible menu and food. The drinks were also good, but above all the staff were superb in their service and advice on the menu.

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    Very friendly staff, great service, and a lovely place to people watch. I couldn't be happier.

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    Mürver Restaurant - 03/16/23 Bükme , Sourdough, Beef, Herb Yogurt, Cubuk Pickles

    Mürver Restaurant

    4.4(26 reviews)
    0.9 kmHacimimi, Kemankeş Karamustafa Paşa Mh., Kemankeş Karamustafa Paşa

    We paid ~$85pp for this place! Overall, it's a beautiful ambiance since we were seated on the…read morerooftop and got to witness the sunset and fireworks. I didn't think the food was all-that to be quite frank. I ended up liking the drinks more than the food. Additionally, we asked the waiter for a birthday surprise for our friend, and they ended up auto-choosing the dessert without asking us and charging us as well without checking in.

    Finally.... a restaurant with a great view and good food. Plus, overall a great ambience…read more Service was very attentive and accommodating! Also, very good for those with gluten intolerance - lots of options, Started with excellent sour dough bread - super crunchy (almost burnt) on the outside, and soft (nearly gooey on the inside) to soak up some peppery olive oil and very tart goat cheese. This was followed by a salad with thinly sliced winter fruit (apples, pears?), beets, and some berries (looked like blueberries without the flavor) and some things that looked like lentils but could have been mung beans (whatever, they were good). This was followed by octopus that was grilled with a pomegranate molasses, which made them a tad too soft and a bit boring, but nontheless well cooked. It was followed by grilled calamari that was nicely charred. The baby radishes were liked by some and not others. The sausage was like N'duja sausage in square logs that was sauteed. It was tasty (obliviously) but a bit too oily. It came with some mashed potatoes and the tartest/pickles ever. Odd combo. The two Turkish wines were tasty and satisfying. As of 11/11/2025, in the running for the best restaurant experience of 2025!

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    Pera Antakya

    Pera Antakya

    4.9(24 reviews)
    0.2 kmAsmalı Mescit Mh., Evliya Çelebi, Pera, Beyoğlu

    One of the absolute best we had it Istanbul. My husband and I did a couple Michelin restaurants in…read moreIstanbul including Turk Fatih Tutak and Sankai but I must say Pera Antakya was certainly our top pick in its category even next to our Michelin experiences. It was our most memorable experience given the food was just so authentic and good. We were pleasantly surprised because I had found Pera Antakya in my research when planning our trip and it was first on our list to try, we then discovered when we arrived at our hotel (The Westist) on our first night that Pera Antakya was right next door. We were shocked/surprised/thrilled all at the same time. As such, we had dinner here the first night we arrived in Istanbul and was blown away. We did the meze, the wrap, farmer's cheese, and the mixed grill plate all based on recommendations from who we believe was the owner. The hospitality was lovely, welcoming, but more so the food was incredibly memorable and we found ourselves wishing we had more time in Istanbul so we could come back and eat at Pera Antakya. We did a couple other highly rated restaurants in similar concept to Pera Antakya over the week we stayed in Istanbul and ultimately though food in Istanbul is generally good, we found Pera was still the best we had out of all them in the same category. In fact, if it was only one restaurant we could go back to and have another meal at or if I could only recommend one restaurant to eat at while you're in Istanbul--- it would be Pera Antakya. We were that impressed with this place. Do not miss it if you're in Istanbul!

    Wonderful authentic Turkish food from Antakya. Service was also solid, English speaking and good…read morewith talking through my girlfriend's allergies. We got the mezze plate with 8 different mezzes---the spicy yogurt was our favorite and it's very spicy. The bread they use is excellent, has some red spice on it that we all loved. For dinner got the lamb shish which was excellent, and the pera antakia kebab which was also very good. All around great, highly recommend

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    Pera Antakya - Beer, mezas plate (for 2), lamb shish, beef

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    Nola Istanbul

    Nola Istanbul

    4.0(19 reviews)
    0.8 kmBereketzade Mh., Ekmekyemez
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    The first thing I noticed is that not the restaurant, it's the area it's in. Supposedly a…read morehistorical area, it was full of homeless people and creepy looking people, it was scary to walk around at night. The restaurant is in a bad location, no matter how "historical" they claim it to be. The food is 3 stars at best, the halloumi cheese was very rubbery, the creamy pasta wasn't that good, and the pizza wasn't that great either. Greatly overrated, I only came here because it was rated as "hot and new". The view is very bad also...

    This turned out to be the best surprise during our Istanbul visit. We were visiting Istanbul to…read morecelebrate NYE and the blizzard put a damper on our celebrations. We were lucky to find NOLA near our apartment and it turned out to be a wonderful spot to ring in the new year. We did not realize it is a prix-fix menu for NYE, but it turned out to be a great selection. The food was excellent (the chestnut soup was stellar), the cocktails were beautiful, and the wine selection paired well with the food. The restaurant space itself is very sleek and sexy, but the sexier part of Nola is the wait staff. Kudos to the recruiting person - they have an eye to select beautiful wait staff who are also trained well. Our server explained everything to us in English - down to each ingredient in the dishes. We never had to look around for service or ask for a refill. Everything was taken care of promptly and professionally. While I cannot speak for the rest of their menu, the prix-fixe menu for NYE was excellent and the entire evening was lovely because of the sexy wait staff. The DJ cranked out some lovely tunes while we rang in the new year with a glass of bubbly and made us forget that we were stuck with a blizzard outside. Thank you for a lovely evening.

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    Nola Istanbul
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