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thrifty
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 Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject: Beverage Bargains |
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| Thrifty is proud to announce that he will be back in town on Friday. In order to make the most of his two weeks holidays and keep the costs down, would you post details of low price alcohol bargains. Please nothing expensive or beer that is less than 5% volume. Also no 330 ml fancy brews. |
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yaramaz
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| So, no DiaBrau? (insert various umlauts) |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:19 am Post subject: Re: Beverage Bargains |
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| thrifty wrote: |
| Thrifty is proud to announce that he will be back in town on Friday. In order to make the most of his two weeks holidays and keep the costs down, would you post details of low price alcohol bargains. Please nothing expensive or beer that is less than 5% volume. Also no 330 ml fancy brews. |
If you looking for places to drink outside, then you can try Akdeniz in Nevizade where they do 70 CL for 5 Lira, which is pretty cheap. You can always try to get a scouse discount in the shops. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:16 am Post subject: |
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Kose in Sisli is a complete dive but it charges 2.50 for a big beer.It's convenient for me as it is in between my office and the metro  |
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calsimsek
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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| The old Sanat in Kadikoy still does a big beer for less than 5 T.L |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Are there no Migros, Carrefour or sok bargains? |
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Sheikh Inal Ovar
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:52 am Post subject: |
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All this 5YTL hardly bodes well ... that's $3.5 ... you can get a pint of Australian or German lager at the local 5 Star Hotel for under $2 on their promotion night ... $3.75 other times ... and a pint of draught Guiness only costs $4.5 at regular prices ($3.25 during happy hour) ...
I know many of you would rather pay $100 a pint than have to do your drinking here, but the fact remains that those Istanbul prices aren't cheap ... |
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dmb
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:29 am Post subject: |
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| but the fact remains that those Istanbul prices aren't cheap ... |
 Remember the days of Bar Madrid when it was 40-50 cents a beer? |
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Sheikh Inal Ovar
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:44 am Post subject: |
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| And Cinar Alti for about $1 a big one ... a stinking hangover must cost a lot more these days ... |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| The good old days in Pendik when you could get a beer for 25 000-the one squat drop toilet used to be full of ruts and cracks from the decades of millions of uses. No toilet paper or soap and it had a sliding door. When you opened the door after using it the steam would seep out and this leering cross eyed waiter would walk past with a plate of steaming chips-both steams used to mingle. Oh God those were the days. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I remember that place. What was the name of it? On pay day we used to go to Jazz cafe though. |
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Golightly
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ahem...I can do worse than that...
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THE FISH BAR
The Dilhan was the pub we d frequent in my first year in Istanbul. It was situated over several floors above a fishmongers, hence us always calling it the Fish Bar. It stank like it, too. Actually, it stank of all sorts of things. Fish was probably one of the nicer smells. Inside, the decor was decidedly on the basic side, although the fishy theme extended as far as the odour did.There was netting festooned on the walls and ceilings, along with the odd pufferfish, floating blankly in a sea of booze, nicotine and fried things, as well as one or two stuffed lobsters and fishing buoys. There were also cats. One tabby had made a nest somewhere on the top floor, and seemed to be continually having kittens. In the evenings, the kittens would stare at us from the stairs, like naughty children who can�t go to sleep until theyve seen what the adults are doing. The bolder cats would actually race across the netting, running across our heads from stair to wall and back. We �d occasionally play cat racing, where we�d bet on which cat could go fastest round the nets. The furniture consisted of long wooden tables with benches and stools. This meant that whenever we were drinking, we all sat on one big, long table, shouting, singing and banging our glasses, which meant we�d inevitably have up to forty people on the same tab, which inevitably led to huge bills, which inevitably led to huge arguments .
The place was definitely on the unsanitary side. Apart from the smell, there were the cockroaches everywhere. I wouldn t touch anything apart from the booze. On the top floor were the toilets, which didn t work, and whose rank stench would ooze and dribble down to where we were sitting. These toilets were, however, preferable to the one down in the basement, in the kitchen. This one was a hole in the floor type, stowed in a kind of cupboard under the stairs. It was pitch black inside, and the smell was indescribable. It was better to try and piss in the dark: once I lit a match to try and get a better aim, and saw cockraches, shit and fish heads and guts everywhere. One look at the kitchen made me swear never, ever to eat there. Despite the smell, despite the cockroaches and cats, we all quite liked it, because it was dirt cheap, and it stayed open later than most other places. The staff were generally friendly, although the owner, Toad Mehmet, was a fat old *beep*. He looked a bit like Jabba the Hutt with a moustache. He d sit in the corner of the first floor, all lardy and constipated looking, a cigarette forlornly dangling from his mouth at all times. He hated foreigners, I think: He looked at us with a bleary eyed contempt, but we paid well. You d be lucky to get a good evening out of him. |
...Although the place that won for the rankest Turkish bog I've ever been in has to be the Quartz Bar in Bornova, Izmir. It stank of rancid meat. 'Nuff said. |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:47 am Post subject: |
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| dmb wrote: |
| I remember that place. What was the name of it? On pay day we used to go to Jazz cafe though. |
Can`t remember the name but I remember being horrified at the idea of going to Jazz cafe because the beers were double price. The students always wanted to take us to nice places where the beers were expensive and small. |
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Sheikh Inal Ovar
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:30 am Post subject: |
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| Perhaps they knew all too well that if the beers had been bigger and cheaper, we'd have been incoherent in minutes ... |
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dmb
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:26 am Post subject: |
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| What did you decide on Thrifty? |
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