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RnB storm in Istanbul

In Istanbul’s night life, there is a trend which has been rising recently and performed by many places already. The name of this trend is RnB nights… Close your eyes and imagine you are one of the clubs in Los Angeles, Detroit or Miami.  You no longer have to be in America or another country [...]

Dishes with a “mother’s touch”

Hamarat Ev Yemekleri If you work in Şişli or occasionally come to the neighborhood, there is this cozy restaurant for which you can avoid any other alternatives in the vicinity: “Hamarat Ev Yemekleri”, where all the work is done only by “skillful” ladies, from the cooking to business management… This restaurant located in a two-storey building in [...]

Babylon

Babylon is one of Istanbul’s premier live music venues. With capacity for 400 people, this split level multipurpose nightclub hosts a wide variety of acts including jazz, rock, indie, hip hop, reggae, Latin, and electronic music including international and local acts. Babylon is also used as a gallery, performance space and theatre.Babylon was opened in [...]

Yerebatan Sarnıcı

Built by the Emperor Justinian at the same time as the Haghia Sophia, it was forgotten for centuries and only rediscovered by a Frenchman, Peter Gyllius, in 1545 when he noticed that people in the neighbourhood got water by lowering buckets through holes in their basements. It’s a tremendous engineering feat, with brick vaults supported [...]