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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 5,187 restaurants
Best restaurants in Istanbul
The 10 most notable restaurants 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
16 Roof
Acısu Sk. No:19
680 m from Taşkışla, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.348, percentile 100 of 5,187
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2
Doğacıyız Gourmet
Akarsu Ykş. Sok. No: 41A
562 m from Tünel, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.348, percentile 99.98 of 5,187
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3
Ercan Steakhouse
Atatürk Blv. No:112
480 m from Siteler, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.347, percentile 99.96 of 5,187
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4
Tavuk Dünyası Nautilus
Meydan Cd. No:1
181 m from Ayrılık Çeşmesi, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.347, percentile 99.94 of 5,187
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5
By Kinyas Restaurant
Tevkifhane Sk. No:18
235 m from Cankurtaran railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.347, percentile 99.92 of 5,187
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6
Ukiyo Restaurant and Bar
Büyükdere Cd. No:76
424 m from Mecidiyeköy, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.347, percentile 99.9 of 5,187
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7
Kavacık Mangal
Orhan Veli Kanık Cd. No:51
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.347, percentile 99.88 of 5,187
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8
Antique Pizzeria
Sahne Sk. No:22
138 m from Tünel, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.347, percentile 99.87 of 5,187
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9
Tavuk Dünyası Kadıköy Altıyol
Nal Sk. No:11A
418 m from İskele Camii, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.347, percentile 99.85 of 5,187
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10
Baazen Tantuni
Levent Cd. No:1
91 m from Levent (M2), metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.346, percentile 99.83 of 5,187
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).