Abra Cadabra Istanbul

Abra Cadabra has got several floors with different designs and is located at the Arnavutkoy where is a Bosphorus district. Savour is the close up fort he venue and you can taste Turkish meals with extra ordinary presantations.  It is ideal for the cheery evening conversations with their ease ambience.

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Abra Cadabra Istanbul

Abra Cadabra has got several floors with different designs and is located at the Arnavutkoy where is a Bosphorus district. Savour is the close up fort he venue and you can taste Turkish meals with extra ordinary presantations.  It is ideal for the cheery evening conversations with their ease ambience.

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5. Floor Taksim

The 5. Floor is located at the Sıraselviler street near Istiklal street and it is operated by the actress Yasemin Alkaya. The venue doesn’ t comprimise from quality for years and also it is known for their savoured meals. You can permanently encounter with the foreigners of city if their regular customers devolve empty tables. It has got a superb scene and you can have terrace joy in the summer evenings too.

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5. Floor Taksim

The 5. Floor is located at the Sıraselviler street near Istiklal street and it is operated by the actress Yasemin Alkaya. The venue doesn’ t comprimise from quality for years and also it is known for their savoured meals. You can permanently encounter with the foreigners of city if their regular customers devolve empty tables. It has got a superb scene and you can have terrace joy in the summer evenings too.

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Ghetto Jazz İstanbul

From the day it opened, GHETTO has strived to embrace all the voices and colors of Istanbul while maintaining a focus on world music as well. Special works and projects and acoustic performances of Turkish artists have taken place with the support of guest artists. Importantly, widely anticipated international groups and projects from all over the world, have debuted on GHETTO stage. This season, more than ever, GHETTO will stage more styles of music and feature musicians from even more nations and genres.
GHETTO this year sounds better than ever with vastly improved acoustics and a cutting edge sound system. 
Music lovers -- our regulars and those new to Ghetto -- can expect to enjoy even more our CD quality performances. Music is one of the oldest forms of diplomacy and cross-cultural interaction. This year Ghetto expands its ongoing commitment to music and cultural programs with more events from our embassy partners and events promoting human and civil rights.

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GHETTO’s restaurant metto, on the second floor, will occasionally offer special menus to compliment the live music.

Please call 0212 251 75 01 for details.

Organization & Charter:

Murat Kanar murat@ghettoist.net

Ghetto Jazz İstanbul

From the day it opened, GHETTO has strived to embrace all the voices and colors of Istanbul while maintaining a focus on world music as well. Special works and projects and acoustic performances of Turkish artists have taken place with the support of guest artists. Importantly, widely anticipated international groups and projects from all over the world, have debuted on GHETTO stage. This season, more than ever, GHETTO will stage more styles of music and feature musicians from even more nations and genres.
GHETTO this year sounds better than ever with vastly improved acoustics and a cutting edge sound system. 
Music lovers -- our regulars and those new to Ghetto -- can expect to enjoy even more our CD quality performances. Music is one of the oldest forms of diplomacy and cross-cultural interaction. This year Ghetto expands its ongoing commitment to music and cultural programs with more events from our embassy partners and events promoting human and civil rights.

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GHETTO’s restaurant metto, on the second floor, will occasionally offer special menus to compliment the live music.

Please call 0212 251 75 01 for details.

Organization & Charter:

Murat Kanar murat@ghettoist.net

Çiya Kebab

A Garden of Lost Cultures and Forgotten Tastes

From the owner of a modest kebab restaurant, the adventure of Ciya is a journey built on passion, keen desire, research and love through the world of food.

Çiya --- like its name, brings to mind high mountain peaks and mountain flowers. In the old days when one would go only for a good kebab or a good lahmacun and those that knew the name "Çiya" could learn the meaning just by asking, a dinning experience that is known as "Çiya" was born in this nest. To this wealth of gourmet expertise a second specially set-up "Sofra" or Kebab House was added. Soon after within a few meters of each other a third "kebab house" was added, hence the three"Çiya"s.

Located in the Fish Market district of Kadiköy, where one's path will definitely be drawn to one of these establishments . The cache of culinary knowledge at Çiya which quite honestly comes from the hands of its creators or "culinary engineers"; Zeynep and Musa who make it all possible. The creators, will take you for a journey in their kitchen, rich in "dishes from a broad geographical space, spanning from Mesopotamia to the Ottomans, from the Balkans to the Caucasus and from Asia to the Arabian Peninsula."

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To me the "Çiyas" are not just eateries, but a center of culinary research and application."

From: Sabri Koz "Dinning at Çiya" A Small Dictionary of Food and Selected Dishes

HAMDİ RESTAURANT

Hamdi Arpacı came from Urfa, Birecik to Istanbul towards to end of the 1960’s. He opened his first counter at the corner of the parking lot situated next to Eminonu, New Mosque. With a small grill and itinerant counter, he offered delicious kebab specialties to the small trade’s people and to public for 7 years. Chef Hamdi’s kebabs became more awareness. The continuously growing number of his customers made him establishes the Hamdi Meat restaurant on the corner of the same parking lot. The Turkey’s Southeastern Region’s unrivalled delicious kebabs were offered to the appreciation of customers while preserving their authentic characteristics and preparation methods during 18 years in the same place. Following the purchase of the first 3 floors of the building, Chef Hamdi expanded the restaurant to 5 floors together with the others. It is still located at the near the same parking lot and does not only offer its services to the surrounding business areas but also organizes the reception of tourist groups, arranges business meals, and special traditional musical evenings.

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A matchless landscape of Istanbul, Galata, Eminonu, Sultanahmet, Bosphorus, etc... The Hamdi Meat Restaurant has become a place of demand with its own impressive scene of the place, reception capacity for 320 guests and well educated 105 employees. Chef Hamdi has successfully brought the basic specialties of the Southeastern Cuisine to the heart of Istanbul and has pursued his course to the present day by firmly preserving the original flavors and continuously developing his conception of restaurant service.