Antre stocks around 40 regional cheeses, all bought from local producers and free from additives. There's also a fair selection of cold meats, Austrian...

A shop attracting a more sophisticated breed of antiquarian, with three spacious display rooms and a prime location in the passage just across from KV Café....

You name it, this place pickles it. Going strong since 1938, the artistic displays of colourful jars are a sight to behold. In addition to old-fashioned...

Popular with the grungy and black-clad, the layout of this arcade behind the Atlas cinema is more structured than most, and its stock is of a higher...

Designer Berrin Akyüz works half the time in her atelier in Üsküdar, and the other half in this Cihangir shop that sells her skirts, tops, scarves, bags,...

West of Çadırcılar, in Sahaflar Çarşısı Sokak, is the Booksellers' Bazaar, a lane and courtyard where the written word has been traded since early Ottoman...

Cocoon is housed in two fabulous shops by the Blue Mosque, on Küçükayasofya. The first (no.13) has an incredible array of felt hats. Coupled with four...

Accessories, hamam wear, shirts, scarves and all manner of knick-knacks - Cocoon is the only souvenir shop you'll need.

Vinyl fans look no further. De Form, run by two friends, is an old-school music shop, with a turntable to test your potential purchases. Most of the records...

In front of the New Mosque is a pigeon-plagued plaza busy with itinerant street sellers and dominated on its south side by the high brick arch leading into...

Ms Paksoy claims her designs are unique, not just in Turkey but worldwide. She's probably right. Her collections reinterpret Ottoman designs, using original...

There are 5,500-odd vendors in the Grand Bazaar. Shopkeepers cajole and entreat passers-by in a dozen languages, determined not to permit visitors to...

Güllüoĸlu is the king of baklava and su boreĸi (baked layers of cheese, fresh herbs and filo pastry). A must for sweet-toothed travellers, the syrup-soaked...

Set alongside the Galatasaray Lycée, this smart, air-conditioned book shop has what is widely considered to be the best collection of foreign non-fiction in...