Arnavutköy

At the narrowest, fastest-flowing point of the Bosphorus, Arnavutköy keeps a quieter seaside-village feel than Bebek, with a row of wooden waterfront mansions and bay-windowed Greek houses in the back streets. Fish restaurants and tea gardens by the pier fill in the evenings; watch the sunset at Akıntıburnu. Twenty minutes on foot along the shore to Bebek.