The Capital of Baked Potato (Kumpir), “Ortaköy“
Baked potato gets married with fresh butter and parmesan cheese and he invites the garnishes to the marriage and finally miracle food “baked potato” extracts with its great flavor. It is known by everyone that the most beautiful baked potato of Istanbul can be found in Ortaköy. Of course, going to Ortaköy District located in Beşiktaş just for eating baked potato, it will be unfair because the district has many historical buildings.
Ortaköy is located in Beşiktaş while following the coastal road of Beşiktaş to direction of Bebek District (Baby). Ortaköy has been the main theme of many documentaries and books for many years with its natural and historic beauty. The district has one of the least suffered human circulation districts in Istanbul in terms of resident people.
Ortaköy can be visited just for the unique view of Bosporus, you can reach the beach among the narrow streets and you can be witness silver made by skillful hands on the both sides of the street stalls. You can find all sorts of ornamentals in these stalls but these are the enemies of wealth because you want to buy all the great ornamentals.
When street ends and sea is seen, Ortaköy Mosque welcomes you with its all magnificence. Ortaköy Mosque is one of the most precious works of Ottoman architecture; the perfect image of the mosque will fascinate you absolutely, also when you enter inside of the mosque you will be affected by tiles made by hand skill and carpets.
Ortaköy Pier, right next to Ortaköy Mosque, continues to permit to take passengers ferries ignoring the previous years.
When you return back to the sea, you see lots of restaurants and cafes with rich menus. These venues welcome their visitors. If you want you can drink a cup of coffee or eat rich meal while you are watching the great view of Bosporus or you can take a ticket for boat tour of Bosporus.
If you don’t go to Ortaköy even though you are living in Istanbul, you should know that you are missing a view, one of the most beautiful places. But unfortunately, the beauty of Ortaköy has been destroying by people every day so tomorrow you could be late to see the beauty.
