A Dining Room with a View…

The night before I got randomly tear-gassed in Taksim Square in Istanbul, I enjoyed an Ottoman-inspired feast at Rami Restaurant, which doubles as a museum for the impressionist paintings of Rami Uluer (who died in 1988). Though I chose to eat my manti on the top floor of the restaurant for a prime view of the majestic Blue Mosque, I took another peek from a window on the first floor on my way out…and snapped this picture…