RESTAURANT GUIDE 2010 Dear Friends
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2010 RESTAURANT GUIDE RESTAURANT Dear Friends, I am pleased to present the first edition of the Diplomatic Club Restaurants Guide as a service to the diplomatic corps. The aim of the Guide is to assist foreigners who come often to Israel or are living in Israel without knowledge of Hebrew to have proven information in English, French and Russian. We are greatly indebted to the restaurants that have agreed to be listed in the Diplomatic Club Restaurants Guide. We too understand the difficulties of living in a foreign country and hope that this service will prove helpful to diplomatic staff and their families. Sincerely yours Julia Verdel General Manager IMPORTANT NOTE Any entry in the Diplomatic Club Restaurants Guide is a public information service only and is not intended to serve any other purpose. Information in the directory will be updated and re-published once a year. While it is intended to be as accurate as possible, the publishers are not responsible for inevitable changes that occur with time. CONTENTS: Tel Aviv and Jaffa ............................................................................. 3 Jerusalem and Area ........................................................................ 19 Herzliya & the Coastal Plain .......................................................... 23 Haifa and the North ........................................................................ 27 Eilat and the South ......................................................................... 31 Restaurant Guide Tel Aviv and Jaffa 3 THE DIPLOMATIC CLUB RESTAURANT GUIDE AWARDS 2011 We Are Looking For Excellent Recommendations for Eating Out Options in Israel OK, so we are back on the subject of eating out in Israel. Just keep in mind that this list from The Diplomatic Club Restaurant Guide is completely free of commercial and business interests, and while traveling in Israel try and update your info and get fresh eating out tips… You think it’s all over and, well, it is. Voting has now opened for the The Diplomatic Club Restaurant Guide Awards 2011. Our panel of food experts will announce their final decisions at a glittering ceremony on April 13, 2011 and the results will be published in full the day after. That’s all the information you’re getting – no clues, no hints, no nothing. Just visit the restaurants from our list and send us your opinion about the restaurants according to the categories: Best Menu Best Service Best Wine list Most Reasonable Best Chef’s Work Best Restaurant Design To get the best service we kindly ask you to find a minute and fill this form out with the name of the restaurants, and fax to :03-5620212 Name ___________________________________ Position __________________________________ Name of Embassy/Consulate/Organization _______________________________________________ Mail address _______________________________________________________________________ Tel: _______________________ Mobile: ___________________E-mail_______________________ Best Menu (name of restaurant) _______________________________________________________ Best Service (name of restaurant) ______________________________________________________ Best Wine list (name of restaurant) _____________________________________________________ Most Reasonable (name of restaurant) __________________________________________________ Best Chef’s work (name of restaurant) __________________________________________________ Best Restaurant design (name of restaurant) ______________________________________________ 4 Tel Aviv and Jaffa Restaurant Guide TEl Aviv, JAffA ANd NEArby SuburbS fAr EasterN Moul Yam, Tel Aviv Port. (03) 546-9920. Daily 12:00-16:00 and 19:30-23:00. Combining French Giraffe Noodle Bar, 48 Ibn Gvirol St. (03) 691-6294. classicism, American modernism and Mediterranean Daily 12:00–01:00. Justifiably popular noodle bar. charm, certainly one of the very best restaurants in the Stir -fried chicken and cucumber in noodles, sashimi country. Oysters, shrimp with mussel- flavored butter, noodles. Fun dining. dishes with langoustines, coquilles St Jacques or lobsters. Superb wine list, excellent service. Kai, 4 Barzel St., Ramat HaChayal. (03) 644-6485. Sun-Thurs 12:00-16:00, 19:00-01:00; Friday afternoon; Shaked, 90 Hashmona’eem St. (03) 561-0546. Saturday from19:00. Sushi on moveable belts in a Daily 12:00-24:00. Old-fashioned enough to be thought mass-market but pleasant setting. Standard but good of as homey, with good starting mezes and on, to crisp sushi at reasonable prices. Best for lunch. calamari, shrimp in butter and garlic and a very good selection of fish carpaccio. The Officers’ Club, 21 HaArba’a St. (03) 685-1155. Daily 12:00-16:00 and 19:00-01:00. Modern and quasi- frENCH industrial in style but quite attractive. Try the fish and seafood soup, the gyozo dumplings, the tempura style Carmella ba Nachala, 46 HaTavor St. (03) 516-1417. calamari, and the yao-che beef (fillet in a meat stock with Sun-Fri 09:00-23:00, Sat 13:00-23:00. French- spices and brandy). Giraffe Officers’ Club — a fantasy Mediterranean cuisine in a charming setting. Roasted about a British or French officers’ mess hall in Southeast pear with blue cheese, shrimp seviche, baby calamaris Asia — is the diamond in Giraffe’s restaurants crown. with thyme and citrus and then potato gnocchi with The restaurant is designed using the same influences at porcini sauce, bass in oregano-tomato sauce, grilled the base of our other Giraffe restaurants but in a slightly lamb skewers. upscaled and more refined manner, we have dared to go even further with the décor and menu, and we are Catit, 4 Hichal HaTalmud St. (near the corner of very proud of the result — a contemporary Western Yehuda HaLevi St). (03) 510-7001. Daily 12:00-15:00 interpretation of an Asian culinary getaway experience. and 19:00-23:00. Established in 2002, and quickly built a reputation as a must- visit restaurant, that offers The Sushi Bar, Hilton Hotel. (03) 520-2222. outstanding dining in a beautiful historical building. The Daily 18:00–23:00. Good sushi and sashimi in a chef, Meir Adoni, became known for his sophistication sophisticated setting. Kosher in the combination of the finest ingredients, creating a unique gastronomic in an elegant, intimate and attractive Sushi Bar, 20 Ashtori Haparchi St. (03) 546-0575. setting. The restaurant offers a la carte menu, fixed Sun-Thurs 12:00-24:00, Fri and Sat from 17:00- 24:00. menus and a great wine list. Excellent and exciting in Reasonable sushi and sashimi. Best deals are the fixed every way. priced meals. Cordelia, Simtat HaZcuchit (near the corner SUSHISAMBA TLV& Brazil, 27 Ha-Barzel St., Ramat of Yeffet 30), Jaffa. (03) 518-4668. San-Sat Ha-Hayal, (03) 6444345, 12:00 to 02:00; merges the 12:30-16:00 dinner 19:00-24:00. Creative cuisine in energies, magic and soul of Japan, Peru & Brazil into a very appealing setting. Shrimp in porcini mushroom one big kitchen Carnival. Only at SUSHISAMBA you sauce, truffle tortellini in yolk dough, sea bass with can dine and enjoy Brazilian music, Japanese sushi with vegetables and wheat filling ,sirloin with eggplants Peruvian touch and flavor and a lot more. Delivery from 12:00 to 23:00 to Tel-Aviv, Ramat Ha-Sharon, Givataim Dallal, 10 Shabazi St., Neve Tzedek. (03) 510-9292. and Ramat-Gan. Daily 12:00-23:00. A Mediterranean haven set in a beautifully renovated building. As first courses, tartare fiSH ANd SEAfOOd of amberjack, carpaccio of pickled sirloin and as main courses the trio of Dallal burgers (one classic, one with Deca, 10 HaTa’asia St. (03) 562-9900. Sun-Thurs mozzarella cheese and one with pastrami), and any of 19:00-24:00, Sat from close of Shabbat. On a run- the fish fillets, each with an appropriate sauce. Good down street but once inside, an appealingly modern desserts. setting. The restaurant menu is based on a milk product cuisine and most of the dishes make use of products Kimmel, 6 HaShachar St. (03) 510-5204. from the ocean. Deca cuisine is full with Mediterranean Daily 12:00-24:00. Appealing ambiance, good service flavors, from contemporary Israel. and distinctly Mediterranean flavors. Liver pate with Calvados, raviolis with goat cheese, veal Marsala, chocolate cake with Grand Marnier Restaurant Guide Tel Aviv and Jaffa 5 MESSA MESSA EN Messa is one of the most prestigious restaurants in Israel, offering the spectacular "Alta cuisine" of Chef Aviv Moshe, showcased in a highly-distinctive interior design that has redefined the parameters of Israel’s lei- sure milieu. The menu is assembled with techniques from Provencal cuisine, with a strong emphasis on local produce along with the meticulous use of fine raw materials. fr Messa est l’un des plus prestigieux restaurants en Israël et propose une spectaculaire Alta (haute) cuisine par le biais de son chef Aviv Moshe. Une décoration intérieur résolument différente qui redéfinit les paramètres des loisirs en Israël. Le menu est un savant assemblage empruntant les tech- niques de la cuisine Provençale, avec une forte emphase qui privilégit la production locale et un travail méticuleux des ingrédients bruts. ru «Месса» — один из самых престижных ре- сторанов Израиля, представляющий зрелищную «высокую кухню» шеф-повара Авива Моше в весь- EN Designed by red-hot local architect Alex Meitlis, fr Conçue par l’enthousiaste architecte local ru Месса была оформлена новым местным ма примечательном интерьере, задающем новые it's impressive and innovative white-on-white dining Alex Meitlis, son impressionnante et innovante salle à архитектором Алексом Мейтлицом. Впечатляю-