Balat roastery in a heritage Ottoman building on the Golden Horn.
A window seat by the water looks over the Golden Horn, with the old stone sea wall outside the glass, where people work on laptops. The building on Miralay Nazımbey Caddesi splits into linked rooms over two levels. The bar sits inside a brick archway on hexagonal terracotta tiles, and the pastry counter is in a whitewashed room under a barrel vault.
Single origins include a natural Ethiopia Sidamo grown at 1,850 to 2,100 metres and a washed Caturra from Santa Helena in Colombia, and the roastery sells its own clay mugs.
