Istanbul Traditional Turkish Dinner and Dervish Experience
Description
In this authentic and top rated experience, discover 800-year-old cultural dervish show in a local place with small groups, enjoy a traditional Turkish dinner in a 140-year-old unique family restaurant, meet with fun people from around the world and explore Istanbul like a local! Make sure to come hungry. - Dervish experience is marked under Unesco Heritage, it is a must thing to do in Turkey. You will be impressed with the mesmerizing dervish performance. - Try a large variety of Turkish Food in a restaurant that is preferred mainly by locals, discover more than 10 different dishes. - Sample authentic street foods, including hidden gems. - Vegeterian, vegan and gluten free options are available. - Price is all included, you will not have to pay any extras. - No need to haggle with taxi drivers—tour includes drop-off close to your hotel. - Numbers are capped at just 15 travelers for a more intimate experience.
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Itinerary
We will be meeting in front of Sirkeci Train Station. After sharing our tour itinerary, we will try several street foods on the way to the historic dervish venue. There will be a very short walk to the dervish show and before the performance we will give you brief information about the background of 800-year-old dervish performance, which is also marked under Unesco heritage and one of the must things to do in Turkey. The dervish show duration will be 1 hour.
Following the dervish performance, our private transfer will take us to a 140-year-old kebab restaurant and we will taste the wonderful Turkish Food. (Unlimited Dinner: you will try 5 different kebabs, meze (tapas), salads, drink). Dinner will be finalized with tea/special coffee and traditional dessert. Notes: Vegetarian, vegan or gluten free option is available, please send us a message after reservation. (10 types of Turkish style vegeterian mezes) The price is all inclusive. You will not pay any extras.
We will split after the dinner 21.30-22.00. We will organise a private car which will drop you to a location close to your hotel.
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What's included
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- We have dishes to suit all your food preferences.
Reviews(673)
Amazing performance it can get you very relaxed but it is a religious performance. The food afterwards was amazing as well just note no alcohol is served but plenty of tea and coffee which was fine.
Absolutely lovely evening! The traditional Turkish dinner was delicious, the group was lively and fun, and the whole experience was relaxing and really well organized. I would happily do the tour again, maybe not necessarily the Dervish experience, but the rest of the tour, 100%! The Dervish experience lasted about an hour, which was a little too long for me. To be fair, I was seriously jet-lagged and had the hardest time keeping my eyes open. I'm pretty sure everyone in the auditorium knew I fell asleep! 😂 It actually made the night even more memorable because my group had a good laugh about it over dinner afterward. Overall, a wonderful experience, great company, and a really fun way to spend an evening in Istanbul!
Very interesting cultural experience in the Old Town of Istanbul with the whirling Dervish, followed by a nice dinner at a traditional restaurant; Zeynep, our tour guide, is very friendly and helped us enjoy the experience
Zey was a wonderful and gracious host taking us around Istanbul for a snack, the Dervish experience and then a wonderful meal. It was our last night in Istanbul and it was a wonderful end to an incredible trip. Thank you, Zey.
It was a great unique experience thanks to our host Sule, the communicationa upon booking and the WhatsApp group and accomodating everyone's requests, the Dervish experience is unique unlike anything I have ever heard or seen, very professional in a beautiful converted old Hamam building, the food snacks at Ali Usta, where i will be going back delicious! and the Turkish Delight too. I didn't know what to expect for the dinner and when we go to the Fatih area next to the beautiful Viaducts the restaurant was huge and it was full of locals I never would have found this and the meal, amazing! best food I have had in Istanbul and the variety is huge, including roast lamb, chicken, Adana, pilav, showstopping Kunefe, Aryan and more. Highly recommend and very personable host, friend for life! Great little souvenir too!
The dervish experience was wonderful, we had front row seats, probably because Viator books so frequently. The dinner was after the dervish and not all that great. A couple of dishes were really good, but on the whole it was not one of my favorite Turkish dinners.
Our guide Sule was very kind and very professional. Thank you.
great tour - enjoyed very much - the guide was super professional, cind, carrying about every detail and needs of everyone at the group. definitely will do it again if l'll have the chance.. thank you 👋
First you see the Dervis "show", then you're provided transport to restaurant of guides choice (ours was outstanding). Because of taxi situation, they'll probably provide drop-off in a safe area near your lodging
Very nice evening in a small group with a lovely guide Sule. She was helpful, caring and also very professional. I suggest this experience to everyone. Especially if you want to have relatively short experience with culture & eating. I had a layover in Istanbul and I didn't want to see the typical tourist attraction and stand in lines just to take photos but this was just perfect evening activity for tired traveller.
