After several visits in a row to the recommended (rated) seafood restaurants in Istanbul I am convinced that there’s nothing more than touristy, tortured, grilled fish in this city. To a greater or lesser degree, it is cremated and oiled. It’s pretty much the same price, but sometimes fucking expensive for such bad quality.

Every place with “a beautiful view of the Bosphorus” should be fucking rejected at fucking once.

Well, if you don’t want to arrange for yourself a “whatever” and otherwise very expensive night, you should defiantly forget all the beautifully located places. Let the tourists gorge themselves there.

This one is a very simple but never decaying restaurant. It’s slightly away from the tourist paths where houses are rather similar to Tbilisi with their carved wooden balconies, which are actually partly collapsed, but that’s the norm.

The restaurant’s tents/verandahs are wedged in a yard between small hotels, hilly alleyways and roosters/hens ceremoniously walking around and sleekly glistening in the sun. The tablecloths, roses in pails (actually, quite decent ones), a two-page menu and the maximum price of a dish at around 70 Lire should at once put you in the right mood.

The very high quality meze, and in particular the veggie bits, are the best!

The staff, who don’t bother you with foolish inquiries and poor accents, move quickly and pour full glasses of excellent Sauvignon blanc. So, all is well!

The tomato salad is indeed THE TOMATO SALAD; you can see it right away from the picture on the menu.

All the rest is the works. You can see fish/calamari/shrimps cooked in detail.

By the way, they have 10-12 types of fish, so you definitely can have a good time here!

On the whole, this is a simply a good fish restaurant, where we left over $70, truthfully we had a couple of glasses of wine all in all. As a complement we received an awesome dessert made out of who the hell knows what and viscous ice cream. This is a restaurant, which guarantees you an excellent lunch or dinner, without showing off. It’s simply quite a tasty one.