Baylan is a historic patisserie in Kadıköy, founded in 1923 by a confectioner of Albanian-Greek origin and a fixture of the Asian side's café culture ever since. It belongs to the genteel old world of Istanbul pastry shops, with attentive waiters, marble tables, and a shaded garden courtyard that makes a calm retreat from the market bustle a few streets away.
Its signature is the kup griye, an invented-here sundae of caramel, croquant, ice cream, and cream that locals have been ordering for generations. Beyond that, the cabinets hold fine chocolates, pastries, and cakes in the Franco-Levantine tradition. Come for an afternoon coffee and dessert and a taste of how Kadıköy's older bourgeoisie has long taken its sweets.