Çınaraltı Restaurant

We stopped here on a sunny day in Istanbul. The restaurant faces the water and on weekends the area hosts a street market, which has some excellent finds from hand-​crafted jewelry to old posters.
Their service is pretty good, it was a busy day when we went but were seated promptly and cared for well. They are also well equipped to handle tourists as every menu item has a picture of the food against it.
On the table were a host of starters, all of which were yummy and for mains we had a mix of fish dishes, such as the baked sea bass in a pot, steamed sea bass with sauce, grilled and fried calamari, mixed seafood ‘pot’ — all excellent. Their seafood is of top quality and the sauces, mine had tomatoes, are among the freshest any of us have had. I almost compared their tomatoes to the Italian fare to which I got some harsh glares from my Italian hubby, but he quietly agreed with me later.
The only drawback for me was they don’t serve any lavash (the big puffy balloon bread).