Norm Coffee

Norm is the brew bar coffee obsessives send each other to. Set on a quiet Cihangir corner, it skips the roaster ego and goes multi-roaster instead, rotating beans from the best names in the city — Kronotrop, Petra, Probador and beyond — so the line-up is never quite the same twice.

The kit matches the ambition. Espresso is pulled on the only Slayer machine in Istanbul, the V60 and batch brewers run a changing cast of single origins, and there's a house cold brew for the warmer months. The food is homemade and honest, but make no mistake: coffee leads here, and the baristas can talk extraction all day if you let them.

It's small, unpretentious and refreshingly free of gimmicks — the sort of room where you actually taste the difference between today's pour and yesterday's. For the cleanest espresso in Beyoğlu and a guided tour of Istanbul's roasters in a single sitting, start at Norm.