GALATA MARİNERO — Restaurant in Istanbul

After island hopping and the coffee at Barbaros, we returned to the old town and decided to have dinner here - this side of the pier/corridor under the bridge is calmer than the other side - the piers and crowds.

Fishing 🎣 lines and pedestrians are the same as the other side.

All the restaurants have one or two solicitors. They hawk the ‘fresh seafoods’ pretty aggressively, keeping the fish 🐠 and lobsters 🦞 etc in a bin with ice. I didn’t ask if these died seafood is what they called fresh. In my diction or my little life, fresh means still kicking and screaming.

The serving staff is way too eager to bring out the wine: we were discussing what to drink, so told him to give us a few minutes. He returned with a glass of white wine. I didn’t order it but took it, to avoid him the trouble.

The bread and tapenade are good. The light colored olives 🫒 remind me of Mulatto.

Two fish courses are ok and my sea bass has scales - it’s a turn off for me.

The knife 🍴 is really dull, can’t cut an olive nor the red bell pepper.

Brief fireworks 💥 (?) at around 8:51 - it was so short, that when I took out my phone,...

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