Osmanbey is one of those vague places you pass through on your way along Halaskargazi Caddesi or when using the Metro from Taksim. Traffic-blighted and busy, it has several fine 19th-century apartment blocks to its name. Technically the Feriköy Protestant and Catholic cemeteries are in Osmanbey. The Bet Israel Synagogue, the most active in İstanbul, is beside the Catholic cemetery.
Eating
Should the urge to eat kushari take you, the Cairo Restaurant dishes up huge helpings of that Egyptian comfort food in bright and cheerful surroundings. Halaskargazi Caddesi No 122, Tel: 0543-943 6010
Sleeping
Ramada Plaza by Wyndham Istanbul. Tel: 0212-315 4444
Transport info
Osmanbey is one Metro stop away from Taksim Square and accessible, too, by buses from there. It’s a 30-minute walk from the Square, most of it flat and part of it possible through Gezi Park.
