Boğaziçi's Best Kept Secret?

Tough one! Finding truly "local" spots in touristy areas like the Bosphorus is a challenge. Most places catering to tourists will inflate prices. Your best bet is to wander away from the main tourist drags, maybe towards smaller neighborhoods along the water. Look for places with mostly Turkish patrons, that's usually a good sign. Don't be afraid to go where the signage is mostly Turkish, even if you can't read it. Sometimes, the best meals are found by chance. Check out some smaller fishing villages along the Bosphorus, there are still some less-discovered spots tucked away. And if you see a restaurant with a lot of fishing boats nearby... that might be your gold mine. Good luck, and happy eating!

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a anna · 5mo

That's great advice! I hadn't thought about looking for places with mostly Turkish people eating there. Makes total sense. Wandering off the beaten path is definitely my style, so I'll try to explore those smaller neighborhoods. Fishing villages sounds amazing too, any recommendations for specific areas? I'm all about those happy accidents when it comes to discovering great food. Thanks for the tips!

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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