Friday, July 28, 2017

ISTANBUL KADIKOY, NOT KARIKOY

DOs and DO NOTs


DO

Go to Kadikoy -- the best port to visit on the Asian side.

Walk less than a kilometer, to the blocks and blocks of open air markets. 

Get meze (tapas) or Lahmacun, a very flat crispy dough with minced meat on it.

You roll it up with fresh basil and salad….kinda like folding over a slice pizza in NYC. 

While in Kadikoy, find the nostalgic tram and take it to MODA. 

Moda is upper middle class families – like Park Slope and hipsters – like Williamsburg….expect everything is 1/4 the cost of NYC.  

Shop for vintage clothes, go to the tea gardens overlooking the point where the Bosphorus Straits spill into the Sea of Marmara.

DO NOT

Confuse Karikoy -- the waterfront part of Galata, which has both touristy restaurants on the water, then some of the best young chef-driven restaurants toward the former industrial port -- with Kadikoy on the Asian side.

Though both are top 12 spots to visit via ferry.





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