Istanbul — #72 in the City — Modern Turkish

Kalemiş 53rd

Sapphire 53rd Floor Modern Turkish $$$$

53rd-floor Bosphorus view dining.

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9.0
Food
9.7
Ambience
8.4
Value

About Kalemiş 53rd

Kalemiş 53rd sits in Levent, and the room reads exactly the way the Istanbul dining establishment expects a modern turkish kitchen at this address to read — considered, particular, and exact about the things it cares about. Sky-view chef-driven Turkish.

The cooking turns on signatures the Istanbul regulars order without looking at the menu: Tasting Menu, Whole Sea Bass, and Soufflé. The kitchen runs at the $$$$ register, with a wine programme that is either deep where the room is loud and tight where the room is quiet, and a service floor that has clearly worked at this register before.

For a close a deal dinner in Istanbul, this is one of the addresses you should already know about. Reservations skew hard; dress is cocktail. The averaged Food/Ambience/Value line sits at 9.0/10 — high enough to mean the room is doing more right than wrong, calibrated against the sharpest other tables in the city.

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