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Balkan Lokantası
🍽️FoodOpen now · Closes 8:30 PM$ · Budget-friendly

Balkan Lokantası

4.2 ·

Discover Balkan Lokantası, a budget-friendly Beşiktaş restaurant open from 7:00 AM. Point at the home-style Turkish dishes on offer and enjoy a quick, filling meal at local prices.

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Full description

Balkan Lokantası is a budget-friendly Turkish restaurant in the Beşiktaş neighbourhood, serving a wide variety of typical dishes at low prices. Reviewers mention plenty to choose from, with popular items selling fast as the day goes on, and note that it pleases visitors unfamiliar with Turkish food.

It opens at 7:00 AM and closes at 8:30 PM, which makes it one of the few places in this set suited to an early meal as well as lunch. At 4.2 from over 1,600 reviews, it works for solo travellers and families wanting a quick, inexpensive 60-minute stop without booking.

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Address

No:, Cihannüma, Akmaz Çeşme Sk. No:8, 34353 Beşiktaş/İstanbul, Türkiye
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Hours

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Booking

Walk-in

Duration

1h

Best time

early morning, morning, lunchtime or afternoon

Intensity

Easy pace

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Good to know

  • No booking is needed
  • arrive earlier in the day, as popular dishes sell out
  • it opens at 7:00 AM, so it works for an early meal
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Reviews

Nice local Turkish dishes. Even Malaysian like us like it 😂

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Sabri Daud

1/5

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