In High Places

Istanbul is, like Hong Kong and San Francisco, a city that values great views over almost anything. If you look carefully at buildings you'll often notice that they have been modified to create a restaurant or bar on the top floor:




The building shown immediately above houses the restaurant in which we had our first Istanbul dinner. Here's what we saw from our table:


But we were to see far better than this during our stay. I'll cut right to the chase and say the best rooftop bar/restaurant, at least where the view is concerned, is the one atop the Marmara Pera hotel. Here's what you see from there:


I think that about says it all.