FERİYE KARAKOL RESTAURANT

Kabataş, Beşiktaş - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°02'42.5"N 29°01'04.8"E 8 41.045139, 29.018000



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Moving in the 19th Century from Topkapı Palace to their new magnificent palaces in the Bosphorus, the Ottoman Sultans literally started the history of Feriye, built then as a precinct. As the terminus of the new palatial area extending from Beşiktaş to Ortaköy with Dolmabahçe and Çırağan Palaces, Feriye is actually an embodiment of the interesting architectural features peculiar to its age.

Established as Feriye Police Station, the history goes back to 2nd half of 19th century. When Ottoman Sultans began to move from Topkapı Palace to magnificent palaces on the Bosporus coast, Feriye Police Station's story started. It is accepted as one of the rare examples of Ottoman Architecture.

Further to the restoration carried out in 1995 by Kabataş High School Foundation, Feriye Complex has become an exceptional spot to make you meet the past on the Bosphorus. Once a 19th century Ottoman police station, Feriye constitutes one of the rare examples of 19th century classical Ottoman architecture. While taking us to past, Feriye also brings us modern taste alongside its Ottantic kitchen. This post-modern understanding opens to a universal dimension.

KABATAŞ HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION SABANCI CULTURAL COMPLEX

"Feriye Karakolu", which is located within the Feriye Palaces complex, built in the second half of 19th century, has been restored with the contributions of Sabancı Foundation. The building is commissioned in 1995 as Kabataş High School Educational Foundation Sabanci Cultural Complex for educational and cultural purposes.

The usage rights of the Cultural Complex is 12.311 square meters of area and it has a closed area of 6.086 square meters. Inside the Complex, there is Cahit Kocaömer Library with 40,000 books, 3 movie theaters, each with 400-seat capacity, music rooms, each with 40-person capacity, for musical studies, special days and functions, and a kindergarten with a capacity of 55 children.

Kabataş High School Educational Foundation Sabancı Cultural Complex provides service with its 120-person Feyyaz Tokar Restaurant, ideal for special occasions, 100-person Garden Restaurant and 6 meeting rooms convenient for national and international meetings.

FERİYE RESTAURANT

Kitchen of Feriye
At Feriye, while serving the synthesis of updates traditional Turkish and Ottoman kitchen, we put a great amount of attention to use natural food. Due to this purpose our menus change according to season.

Feriye Cuisine
Serving an up-to-date synthesis of traditional Turkish and Ottoman cuisine, Feriye Restaurant develops its menus according to the season, procuring only traditional, natural foodstuffs and carefully preserving the classic flavors.

Another classic, this time of 19th century Ottoman architecture, the restaurant’s venue at the former Feriye ‘Karakol’ or Police Station takes its Bosphorus guests on a nostalgic journey into the past. Simultaneously, it takes its authentic cuisine, designed to appeal to modern palates, into a universal dimension through a post-modern approach.

Feriye Restaurant offers its customers the experience and expertise born of a return to Ottoman cuisine that began in Turkey about fifteen years ago by serving dishes based on historical research and scholarly findings. Feriye Restaurant draws up its menus based on seasonal considerations, using only natural and naturally grown foodstuffs. For seasonal planning of menus is the first principle of authentic cuisine. In complete fidelity to traditional methods of preparation, time-honored recipes from the 12th-14th or the 19th century are offered in a contemporary approach.

Our menu, for example, includes not only ‘pastırma’ (spicy cured beef) wrapped in vine leaves, but also ‘mantı’ (filled pockets of dough) in butter and fish stuffed with pignolia nuts served with pepper sauce, all of which hark back to mythological methods of food preparation. Other specialties, based on 15th century techniques, include grilled turbot with saffron and courgette balls served with raspberry puree.

Eating habits around the world have always varied with time and place. We have therefore adapted Ottoman and Byzantine cooking methods to today’s tastes.

For example, while fatty meat was valued in Ottoman times, today we prefer our meat lean. While the use of oil extracted from the fatty tail of the sheep was once considered de rigueur for its flavor and nutritional value, today even butter is being passed over in favor of olive and other liquid oils. But these trends are no obstacle to the use of traditional methods, many of which we are still discovering. And even though these methods may entail higher costs, any restaurant that offers fine dining is compelled to make the sacrifice.

With a menu based largely on Istanbul classics, Feriye Restaurant also offers gastronomes the perennial favorites of Turkey’s many regional cuisines--the wild herbs of the Aegean, a Southeast Anatolian classic like ‘sürkebzet’, and walnut paste and carob molasses, to name just a few. The dishes of the regions that made up the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century are of paramount importance for Feriye Restaurant.

The Feriye Facilities
Offering a variety of different venues suitable for everything from business meetings of 20 people to conferences of 400, Feriye Restaurant in summer hosts a wide range of events for up to 2000 people on its terrace overlooking the Bosphorus. And our outside catering group, which aims to provide boutique service, can organize sit-down dinners for up to 1500 people.

For Your Meetings
If you’d like to put on something special for your business meetings, seminars and conferences, you can make use of Feriye’s private meeting rooms. Capable of hosting events of all kinds from a business meeting for 20 to a gathering of 400, Feriye Restaurant can entertain crowds of up to 2000 in summer on its terrace overlooking the Bosphorus.

Hamdi Saver Meeting Room, Foyer Of Hamdi Saver Meeting Room, Feyyaz Tokar Meeting Room, Adnan Barlas Meeting Room, Pink Room, Blue Room, Green Room

For Special Occasions
Celebrate those special occasions you want to remember forever in Feriye’s extraordinary ambience with the magnificent landscape of the Istanbul Bosphorus as a backdrop. It is a pleasure for us to serve you and your friends on your special occasions with our superb menus and experienced personnel.

Catering
And our outside catering group, which aims to provide boutique service, can organize sit-down dinners for up to 1500 people.

A La Carte Restaurants
Serving in two separate venues for summer and winter, Feriye A la Carte Restaurant can serve dinner for up to 400 and cocktails for up to 1000 persons in summer, and dinner for up to 60 and cocktails for up to 120 persons in winter.

Feriye Cafe
Located inside the Kabataş Culture Center, Feriye Café offers a splendid view of the Bosphorus and the historic Feriye Palace in a contemporary architectural setting. A full café-bar and restaurant open throughout the day, Feriye Café is a venue tailor-made for art lovers and cinema buffs for its proximity to the Feriye Movie Theater.

Feriye Bar
An inseparable part of Feriye Restaurant, Feriye Bar offers a select café menu all day long and special refreshments at tea-time throughout the summer months. You can also watch the sunset over Seraglio Point or the moonrise over Çamlıca Hill from Feriye Bar, where our distinguished guests enjoy music and the inimitable Istanbul silhouette before dinner.

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WEB SITE : Feriye Restaurant

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E-Mail : feriye@feriye.com
Phone : +90 212 227 2216 / +90 212 236 2522
Fax : +90 212 236 5799

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BEYKOZ COSTAL SOCIAL FACILITY

Burunbahçe, Beykoz - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°06'47.4"N 29°05'10.5"E / 41.113159, 29.086252



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Opened in 1999 on the shore of Çubuklu where the Bosphorus strait meets the Black Sea, the Beykoz Social Facility welcomes its guests with a view of Bosphorus on one side and the shade of green trees on the other.

Offering a unique restaurant decorated with Ottoman ornaments, the Beykoz Social Facility becomes an unforgettable part of your memories.

The Beykoz Coast Social Facility, where you can enjoy delicious dishes along with a view of the Bosphorus, is a unique place with an outdoor space of 1,050 m2 and restaurant area of 1,300 m2.

With a capacity to accommodate 640 people at the same time, the pearl of the Bosphorus, the Beykoz Coast Social Facility, welcomes you with its approach to high quality service and friendly staff at any time you wish to get away from a stressful day or spend time as a family.

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WEB SITE : Beykoz Coast Social Facility

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Phone : +90 444 1 034

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TOPKAPI PALACE KARAKOL RESTAURANT

Topkapı Palace, Fatih - İstanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°00'34.9"N 28°58'45.2"E / 41.009684, 28.979236



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EXTERIOR GUARD POST BUILDING

Karakol Restaurant, which serves as an A La carte Restaurant and Cafe in two halls, one being for the summer and another one being for winter, is to organize and host business meetings, dinner receptions and private receptions. Karakol Restaurant, which offers cafe - bar and restaurant services at any time of the day, hosts its distinguished guests in a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere and entertains its guests with special tastes at one of the most favorite venues of Istanbul.

The "Exterior Guard Post" building located in the 1st Yard of Topkapı Palace and the Imperial Walls, which were had built by Sultan Mehmed II, the Conqueror, in the 15th century, is situated between Saint Irene and the Imperial Walls. The front yard of the premises faces the 1st Yard of the Palace. The backyard of the guard post embraces the ruins of Saint Samson Hospital and old people's home, which had been built during the Byzantine era, and the excavation works of which started in 1947.

Even though people had lived in shanty housing structures of suspended ceilings and partitions built in the premises and even inside the building as well as the yard, where the archaeological ruins from the Byzantine were located, for a long time; the Minister of Culture and Tourism, immediately intervened the situation, which was definitely not suitable especially on a path way visible by thousands of visitors of Topkapı Palace Museum, and decided the "Exterior Guard Post" and the surrounding structures to be restored, arranged and made available for public service.

The restoration project of the "Exterior Guard Post" premises were operated as a high quality restaurant and café, conducted researches for competent restaurant and café management and operation companies, which could meet the high quality management expectations, and eventually awarded the contract to Feriye Restaurant amongst a list of other select companies.

Topkapı Palace, the 1st Yard, Exterior Guard Post
Saint Irene, which is located within the 1st Yard of Topkapı Palace, was had built by Emperor Justinian in 548 and is the only surviving church with an atrium from the Byzantine era. Since it was included inside the Imperial Walls and used as an armory and a warehouse of possessions, it was named "Cebehane".

In 1846, Ahmet Fethi Pasha founded the very first Ottoman museum with the collected artifacts, which were arranged in two lines as "Mecma-i Esliha-i Atika" (the Collection of Antique Weapons) and "Mecma-i Asar-i Atika" (the Collection of Antique Artifacts), and the museum was named the Imperial Museum. The ancient church, which was used an armory, was then used as the Military Museum for a while in 1908.

The structure, which left unattended thereafter, was repaired and made a part of and brought under the control of the Directorate of Hagia Sophia Museum. On the southwest of the Monument of Saint Irene are some ruins from Samson Xenodochion. The said part, which is located between Hagia Sopiha and Saint Irene is not at all mentioned during the recess period of Byzantine.

The structure is located on the southwest of Saint Irene, between the ancient church and the walls inside the yard, which is accessible through the Imperial Gate inside Topkapı Palace. On the northwest of the structure are some ruins, which are located between the ancient church and the walls and under the ground level, and which are dated to the Byzantine era and are believed to belong to Sampson Xenodochion and the cisterns extending toward the southeast direction. The structure, which was initially used as the exterior guard post for Topkapı, has been used as as accommodation facility for the staff in the near past.

During the early years of the Ottoman domination, the ruins were covered. The date of the process is, however, not known. Nonetheless, the field is shown as the wood yard on a miniature painting of the Hunername of 1585. Evliya Celebi describes it as follows; "The woods of the seniors are delivered from this field. This huge wood yard is located on the interior side of the Imperial Gate and inside the walls and has the capacity to embrace five hundred ships of woods".

According to the travel book of Evliya Celebi; the field was used as the Wood Yard Guild and as the Caners' Guild and Aslan Hane in the early times of Ottoman rule. In the 19th century, a guard post of stone was built on the field, which was then being used as the Water Carriers' Guild.

Saint Irene, the First Church of Byzantine
Saint Irene is the greatest church of Byzantine. The ancient sources suggest that Saint Irene was built during the reign of Constantinus I (324 - 337) in the early 4th century on the ruins of the Roman temples of Artemis, Aphrodite and Apollo. Saint Irene, which is located within the same yard as Hagia Sophia, was burned along with Sempson Zenon, which was located adjacent thereto, during Nika Riots of 532. In the aftermath, Emperor Justinian had Saint Irene as well as Hagia Sopia rebuilt. Even though the construction was started in 532, the date of completion is not known definitely.

The strong earthquakes, which occurred in the 8th and the 9th centuries, caused considerable damages on the church. Saint Irene, which was referred to as the Patriarchate's Chapel by the Byzantine, became a part of the domain inside the Imperial Walls, which surrounded Topkapi Palace, after the conquest of Istanbul. Thus, since it was not converted into a mosque, it did not undergo any significant architectural modification. It was used initially as the internal armory and subsequently as the arsenal of the Ministry of War.

Constantinus, while he was reconstituting the city, had a forum, a palace and a hippodrome built for his name and he also had the Church of Saint Irene built on the Roman temples in 330s. Hagia Eirene, the original name of the church, means "Holy Peace" and was named after a female saint, who lived in the same era. The original name of the saint was Penelope.

Penelope devoted her life to spread the doctrines of Christianity. She was thrown down to a well full of snakes by the pagans, but she survived. She was then stoned, and tied to horses and dragged, but she survived. Subsequently, the pagans converted into Christianity after witnessing her miracles, and Penelope was named Irene. Thus, Emperor Constantinus named the first temple of the monotheistic religion after her as Saint Irene or Hagia Eirene.

Saint Irene is the only church with an atrium from the Byzantine. Atrium is what a cloister, which used to be characteristically located in the center of ancient Roman temples, was called. Saint Irene still maintains the characteristics of the ancient Roman temple, which used to be its predecessor in location. However, the Saint Irene, which currently stands on the same spot, is not the original one.

The original Saint Irene, which was a wooden structure, burned in 532. The people, who rose in riot when Emperor Justinian prohibited polytheistic beliefs, burned both Hagia Sophia and Saint Irene on behalf of Zeus. Even though Justinian had Hagia Sophia and Saint Irene rebuilt, Saint Irene burned once again in 564, and was repaired. The church underwent the third repair when it was damaged by the earthquakes.

When the Sultan Mehmed II, the Ottoman Sultan, conquered Istanbul, a new era began. The exterior walls of Topkapı Palace, the construction of which was started upon the Sultan's entrance to the city, was planned to pass between Hagia Sopia and Saint Irene. In time, Saint Irene started to be used as the internal armory, where the weapons were maintained and repaired.

Saint Irene was the first museum of Ottoman Empire. The first museum of the Empire was opened in Saint Irene in the 19th century when the weapons kept in the armory became antiques. The double-leaf stairs, which enable the access to the galleries, were constructed when the structure was turned into a museum. The Ottomans added the inscription, dated 1726, and the said stairs to the ancient church.

Since icons were prohibited in Byzantine for religious concerns, during the repairs after the earthquakes, which damaged Saint Irene, no embellishments were worked on the walls. Currently, no motifs have survived other than the cross, symbolizing Jesus, on the abscissa, which used to be covered by the Ottomans through the use of a flag, and a several-step pulpit, symbolizing the Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified, located thereunder.

The structure has not undergone any significant modifications since it was not transformed into a mosque after the conquest of Istanbul in 1453, and was used as the armory and the warehouse of possessions for a long time. Ahmet Fethi Pasha ensured the artifacts, which constituted the very foundation of Turkish museology, to be exhibited in Saint Irene in 1846.

The Church was, then, named as Müze-i Hümayun (the Imperial Museum) in 1869. Nevertheless, the artifacts were moved to Çinili Kiosk in 1875 due to space concerns when the space of Saint Irene remained insufficient. Saint Irene was used as the Military Museum for a while after 1908. The structure, which was thereafter left unattended, was then made a part of and brought under the supervision of the Directorate of Hagia Sopiha Museum.

Ahmet Fethi Pasha ensured the artifacts, which constituted the very foundation of Turkish museology, to be exhibited in Saint Irene in 1846. The Church was, then, named as Müze-I Hümayun (the Imperial Museum) in 1869. Nevertheless, the artifacts were moved to Çinili Kiosk in 1875 due to space concerns when the space of Saint Irene remained insufficient. Saint Irene was used as the Military Museum for a while after 1908. The structure, which was thereafter left unattended, was then made a part of and brought under the supervision of the Directorate of Hagia Sopiha Museum.

KARAKOL RESTAURANT

The Concept of Karakol Restaurant
Karakol Restaurant, which serves as an A La carte Restaurant and Café in two halls, one being for the summer and another one being for winter, is to organize and host business meetings, dinner receptions and private receptions. Karakol Restaurant, which offers café - bar and restaurant services at any time of the day, hosts its distinguished guests in a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere and entertains its guests with special tastes at one of the most favorite venues of Istanbul.

Fields of Activity
- Restaurant and Café
- Event Management
- Outdoor and Indoor Catering
- Gastronomic Training
- Ottoman Cuisine Researches and Practices
- International Publicity Event Organization
- Congress and Event Organization

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WEB SITE : Karakol Restaurant

MORE INFO & CONTACT
E-Mail : info@karakolrestaurant.com
Phone : +90 212 514 9494

These scripts and photographs are registered under © Copyright 2017, respected writers and photographers from the internet. All Rights Reserved.