Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi

The 1871 Turkish coffee original, the whole street smells of it

Hours: Daily 08:00–20:00
Address: Tahmis Sk. 66, Fatih (near the Spice Bazaar)

Walk the lane beside the Spice Bazaar and your nose finds the shop before your eyes do. It has been grinding coffee since 1871, and the queue shuffles out with paper bags of fine-ground Turkish coffee. Buying to take home is the point. Pick up a few bags after the bazaar and call it done.