LOCATION

The Istanbul Food Workshop is situated in one of the oldest and most intriguing parts of Istanbul; on the shores of the Golden Horn where the villages of Fener and Balat meet. The Tahtaminare Mosque, built in the earliest days of the Ottoman Empire sits immediately across the street. The Tuesday food bazaar of Balat begins less than one hundred metres down the road. Original bakeries of both bread and biscuits are found metres away. Other landmarks of interest in the immediate area include the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, the Rum Boy's School, the Bulgarian Church and the Ahrida Synagogue.

A few minutes ride east along the Golden Horn will bring you to Eminonu and the Spice (Egyptian) Bazaar, trading districts since the days of Byzantium. Along the side of the Spice Bazaar you will still find a few of the fruit and vegetable stores to invoke a memory of centuries gone by. A time when the streets would have been brimming with fresh produce stores packed with goods brought from the ships docked at the water's edge.

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