Two Markets Two Continents Tour

Our full day tours led by immersive expert guides are not only a celebration of local cuisine - They are an homage to the unsung heros of the kitchens. The tour is a way of exploring city’s history, neighborhood life, traditions, culture all through the food.

Program

Half Day Tour (Walking & Eating Tour)

Departs: 9.30 am 
Returns: 4.00 pm 

Start: Will be notified the day before the tour 
Finish: At the last visit point

If you are picking your travel destination with the primary purpose of enjoying local food and beverages, you are with us, foodie! Memorable experience, eating at gourmet restaurant, going to a famous bar or simply enjoying streetfood from a stall. We cover it all. Our full day tours led by immersive expert guides are not only a celebration of local cuisine. They are an homage to the unsung heros of the kitchens. The tour is a way of exploring city’s history, neighborhood life, traditions, culture all through the food. Taste authentic food, Get off the beaten path, meet the masters and experience the city.

The “Two Markets, Two Continents” route draws from our best-of list in the European side’s Karaköy neighborhood and the Asian side’s Kadıköy, tied together by a Bosphorus crossing. The historic Persembe Pazarı of Karaköy, where this walk begins, might look like a place to buy springs, ship anchors, hardware and paint supplies, but we’ll go there for breakfast at a lovely little esnaf lokantası run by a husband-and-wife team, followed by a stroll through the atmospheric mariner market streets, where we’ll stop into an Ottoman-era caravanserai for tea. Then we’ll hop the boat to Kadıköy on the Asian side and eat our way through that neighborhood’s market, sampling regional specialties such as Mersin’s tantuni, Gaziantep’s lahmacun and the ıslama köfte of Adapazarı. We’ll continue on toward the lesser-explored culinary hotspot of Moda, where we’ll taste life-changing traditional desserts from Turkey’s Southeast and Black Sea region.