Ortaköy's Cool and Useful Places (with Google Maps Locations)

The places are selected according to the criteria of quality, practicality and authenticity. Please click on them to get to their Google Maps locations. (The last update: 22 August 2023) 

1- Omnia Pansiyon 

- Omnia Pansiyon (Our Guest house) 

2- Restaurants, coffee shops and bars

- Ortaköy Cafe Kahvaltı (Turkish breakfast)

- Ortakoy Bakery (Turkish simit/ coffe & Turkish breakfast)

- Dürümce Ortaköy (Eastern Turkish dinner place)

- Epope Cafe & Restaurant (a nice rooftop bar)

- Feriye Lokantasi (a famous luxary restourant)

- Banyan Restaurant (a Turkified Asian cuisine restaurant)

- Malt Bistro & Pub (a nice inside-drinking place for cold weather)

- E&E Balkanli Lokantasi (home-made style traditional food restourant)

- The House Cafe (a nice coffee at the Ortakoy coast)

- Starbucks (a nice Starbucks with the Bosphorus view)

- Dominos Pizza

3- Historical places

- Grand Mecidiye Mosque (Ortaköy Mosque)

- Ortaköy Square

- Kumpir street (Ortakoy Street food area)

- Tarihi Hüsrev Kethüda Kubbesi (Art exhibition center)

- Yıldız Park (An imperial park from the Ottoman era)

4- Public transportation

- Ortakoy's main bus station (DT2 & DT1 busses scheduled every 10 minutes, and takes you to other nearby centers like Mecidiyekoy, Levent, Bestiktas, Taksim...)

- Ortakoy Ferry Station (Ferries takes you to the nearby centers and across the bosphorus like Uskudar, Eminonu...)

- Besiktas Ferry Station (You can go there in 5 minutes by taking a bus. It's a more centeral ferry station, having more frequent schedules) 

5- Practical places

- Zorlu Center (A luxury and nice shopping center)

- Bim (discounted supermarket)

- Galataport Istanbul (touristic and luxry open-air shopping center)

- Local laundry service

- The local taxi station (Alternative and recommended one: Uber/ Bitaxi---They are the same yellow taxis, but on application)

- MAC Ortaköy (fitness center)

- Parking Lot

- Exchange office