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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 27 food and drink
Best food and drink in Istanbul
The 10 most notable food and drink in Istanbul, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Bensüs Kağıt ve Ambalaj
Litros Yolu Sk No:1A
597 m from Topkapı-Şehit Mustafa Cambaz, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.446, percentile 100 of 27
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2
Ucuzcular
Mısır Çarşısı İçi No:51
147 m from Eminönü (T1), rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.391, percentile 96.15 of 27
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3
Çengelköy Baharatçısı Kavacık Şubesi
Otağtepe Cad. 68/B Dörtyol
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.333, percentile 92.31 of 27
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4
İrem Hanım Çiftliği
Çağlayan Kavşağı Altgeçidi NO:95/A
529 m from Çağlayan, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.283, percentile 88.46 of 27
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5
Sevda Gazozcusu
Vefa Cd. 75/C
353 m from Vezneciler—İstanbul Üniversitesi, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.237, percentile 84.62 of 27
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6
Sütaş İstanbul Avrupa Merter Bölge Müdürlüğü
Fabrikalar Caddesi, Çırpıcı Yolu B Çk. No:12
558 m from Merter, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.158, percentile 80.77 of 27
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7
Hasmandıra
Kocatepe Mah.Yemiş Meydan Sok.No:2/148, Megacenter D:C18 Blok
661 m from Kocatepe, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.148, percentile 76.92 of 27
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8
Sinangil
Ord. Prof. Dr. Fahrettin Kerim Gökay Cd. No:36
175 m from Altunizade, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.074, percentile 73.08 of 27
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9
Gözde Börek
Mevsim Sokak 8
304 m from Yeşilpınar, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.035, percentile 69.23 of 27
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10
Balık pazarı
Sahne Sokak 4
72 m from Tünel, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.026, percentile 65.38 of 27
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).