very bad service. A terrible cafe with sullen, rude…read moreemployees who do not know how to serve the customer

First things first it's too expensive, 3 people X (1 coffee + 1 dessert) = 90 lira. The coffee,…read morethanks to being Meinl, is wonderful, the interior, location, atmosphere, likewise. Desserts are meh. HOWEVER the staff I think collectively suffer from what one might call the "french exchange student syndrome", whereas when somebody goes to France for a semester, they adopt the french attitute to life. Meaning that they gracefully "allow" you to sit at their cafe and have the higest honour imaginable of tasting their coffee. They aren't necessarily rude, they're simply indifferent, in modern terms, they can't even. So yes, if you want to be treated like a Syrian refugee by all means, Karabatak is the perfect place. However, 3rd wave cafés popping up like Kanye at an awards show, hopefully Blackswamps iron rule (I mean the name is a dead giveaway) might come to an end soon. LONG LIVE AFFORABLE CAFÉS WITH GOOD COFFEE!!

Very nice place , the coffee is really good and the decor is French inspired , there are two…read moreseating areas indoor and outdoor

Fantasic coffee and they have cookies! Cookies are hard to find here in Turkey. All pastries look…read morefantastic! Breakfast sandwiches are available too. My man is a fan of their Pour overs, that says a lot. He's a bit of a coffee snob and I appreciate it. He always finds the best coffee shops around. We'll be back in a few hours for cafecito.

Noir Pit is a cozy little coffee shop. I hung out there for a couple hours, drinking a mocha and…read moreusing their wifi. I wish they had a larger food selection but the sandwich I got was decent. Service was attentive, and the atmosphere was laid-back. Did not see many tourists come through which was nice.

Very nice cafe. Got an omelette which I enjoyed. My iced latte was good too. The place was quite…read morebusy and fun to people watch. Service was very slow.

This cafe is amazing! The Turkish breakfast was over the top! Four of us ate and there was still…read moreleftovers! The fried eggs with sausage was delicious!

I just bought bread from here today! It was delicious. Sourdough with olives. I can't be more…read morethrilled to have this open in the neighborhood. They have bagels, sweets, croissants, a great homemade bread selection and delicious coffee as well. The bread was so reasonably priced. The olive bread was 6.5 tl. I know I will be stopping in for bread regularly. And nice to see some bagels for sale outside of overpriced TriBeCa. Glad to have this place open! Edit: I am now on day 3 of buying bread. 2 days olive bread. One day French baguette. I don't see an end in sight!

amazing service!!! great vegan food and great drinks!! the…read moredesserts are great i recommend the cookies

Great place. beautiful service. Their nargile is quite good (not all the flavours but most are…read moregreat). - Although in Winter it's just too cold to sit on the roof (which is the only place we can actually smoke hookah). But apparently there's some building regulation thing..

Came here for lunch wanted meatballs lol they gave us meat it was round but not a ball. lol . Food…read morewas delicious. The fries I come to Turkey for were great.

My SO and I stopped here after getting off one of those silly sightseeing tour buses in the spice…read moremarket area. It was late in the afternoon and figured we would see the next one come along because the restaurant sits right on the side of the main road. Never saw the bus, but we found a place we would come back to multiple times on our two weeks in Istanbul. Our first visit it was nice out so we at outside. We had a fantastic server who spoke minimal English but was great to deal with - he saw us taking photos of each other and asked for the camera so he could take some of us together... and then said "5 Lira!" and chuckled. So our first stop we had tea, a cafe latte, and baklava. The cafe latte was one of the few good ones I had on this trip. Pro-tip: Istanbul is plagued with crappy instant coffee so when you find a place that serves good stuff, make a mental note. The baklava was 4 pieces (2 each of 2 different varieties) for around 7TL I think. Since it was the first baklava of the trip AND it was good, all the rest got compared to it. So we were wrapping up, getting ready to forfeit returning to Taksim on our bus (which never came so we hopped on the metro which stops right across the street), and we got our bill. Unlike everywhere else we went in Istanbul, this place adds a service gratuity. I'm not sure how they determine it, but they did add one to every bill we had there. Maybe they figured we were stupid and wouldn't argue it... Who knows. It didn't keep us from coming back though. We had dinner one night and I had the generic shepherd's salad and kofte/meatballs. Both were pleasant and simple. Another time I had lentil soup and a chef salad. Soup was good, salad was fine. Sweet stuff we had - baklava (2x), some strange fruit jelly/pudding (SO ordered it and I didn't have any desire to try it... it jiggled), and kunefe. The kunefe was really sweet. Like diabetic coma sweet. If you've never had it before, it's served hot from the oven. The bottom of it is some kind of white cheese, and on top of it is shredded phyllo dough that's packed in kind of tight, and it's all soaked in a simple syrup. It has an inoffensive flavor; you don't feel like you're eating cheese so don't let that scare you. The phyllo dough being packed so tightly reminds me of breaking the burnt sugar layer of crème brûlée which has an odd satisfaction. I wouldn't order it without sharing it though because it was simply too much sugar for one person. Overall, I would go back here if I was in the city again. It was a nice midscale kind of restaurant/dessert shop with a great patio.

This place is just OK to me, the service was good, the view was outstanding especially on a clear…read moreday! There is just something beautiful about being around water. The food was just OK, I had a sucuk and cheese omelette that they burnt somehow and some chocolate chip pancakes which weren't bad. I can say I was a little disappointed from all the hype I heard about this place. I will come back and give it another try though. The atmosphere of the place is warm, the decor is nice. Love the painting's on the wall by cafe! Once again the view to where you can watch the boats, water and look onto the other side of Istanbul which is Asia, is superb!

I absolutely love this place... Wonderful view of Bosporus, right on the water, an elegant cafe…read more.. No better place to spend a Sunday afternoon with a nice coffee and some cupcakes.. It's also a great place to work... It would be amazing to have couple more spots like this one! Hey do have big tables so you can also go with a group of people and enjoy your time, chat, work together.. I have to say that it is on the pricey side but that's what would be expected from a place like that in that location.. View is amazing, staff is friendly, service is good, product is great, atmosphere is Lovely.. You would not regret it!