Istanbul: Sips & Stories on the Asian Shore

Kadıköy doesn't perform Istanbul — it lives it. On this afternoon walk through the Asian side's most spirited neighbourhood, you'll taste your way through centuries of drinking culture: from an Ottoman confectioner founded in 1777 to a wine bar serving Anatolia's oldest grape varieties, from a century-old pastry house to a meyhane where the rakı flows as the sun drops over the Marmara Sea. Seven stops. Seven stories. One neighbourhood that quietly holds more of Istanbul's soul than any postcard ever could.