Tel Aviv-Yafo Restaurant Tips by Bregman

Restaurant Name: Big Mamma

The best pizza in Tel-Aviv, possibly in Israel. They specialize in thin crusted pizzas with wide selection of toppings. In addition to standard toppings like bacon, cheese, mushrooms, onion, shrimp, calamari, etc. you can also get unique ones like figs, leek and more.

Favorite Dish: Pizza

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Theme: Pizza
Comparison: less expensive than average
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter
Phone: 03-5107805, 03-5175065
Address: 13 Najara St., Tel-Aviv
Website: http://rest.co.il/RestsSites/MainPage.asp?RID=4006 (Hebrew only)

Restaurant Name: Orna & Ella

One of the best cafés in Tel-Aviv. You'll have to wait a while for a table, but it's worth it. The food is excellent and so are the cakes and tarts.

Notice: It's closed on Friday night.

Favorite Dish: Pavlova.

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Theme: Coffeehouse
Comparison: about average
Prices: US$11-20  » Currency Converter
Phone: (03) 620-4753
Address: 33 Sheinkin St., Tel-Aviv.
Website: http://rest.co.il/RestsSites/RestCard.asp?RID=1232 (Hebrew only)

Restaurant Name: Coffee Bar

A charming bistro serving good and not so expensive food. Don't get fooled by the name, it's a bistro and not a café.


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Theme: French

Phone: (03) 688-9696
Address: 13 Yad-Haruzim St., Tel-Aviv.
Website: http://rest.co.il/RestsSites/MainPage.asp?RID=2307 (Hebrew only)

Restaurant Name: Aldo

If you like Italian ice-cream, this is the place for you. Aldo, who came to Tel-Aviv from Milan, has started at one place in Tel-Aviv and now owns a whole chain.

Favorite Dish: Ice-Cream.

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Theme: Ice Cream
Comparison: about average
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter
Directions: There are several branches all over Israel. The original one is in Ben-Yehuda street, Tel-Aviv.

Restaurant Name: Nanochka

Not so ordinary combination of a Georgian Bistro (that is the former Soviet Union republic of Georgia) and a pub. The place is divided to two rooms, one has a bar and the other has tables and chairs for dining. The bar room is quite noisy with loud music, but you can still have a conversation in the bistro area.


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Theme: Other
Comparison: about average
Prices: US$21-30  » Currency Converter
Phone: 03-5162254
Address: 28 Lillenblum St.
Website: http://rest.co.il/RestsSites/MainPage.asp?RID=2954 (Hebrew only)

Restaurant Name: Stephan Brown

Used to be a fur shop in the fifties, this beautiful house was turned into a steakhouse. The place is divided into two areas: the in-house part and the garden part. If the weather is good, try getting a place in the garden.


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Theme: Steakhouse
Comparison: more expensive than average
Prices: US$31-40  » Currency Converter
Phone: 03-5604725
Address: 99 allenby St. (in the inner court)
Website: http://rest.co.il/RestsSites/MainPage.asp?RID=1292 (Hebrew only)

Restaurant Name: No name

This is not really a restaurant, it's not even a proper bakery. They have only one thing here: bagels. There are two kinds of bagels, the big, oval, soft ones which can be found in Arab places and the tough round ones. This is perfect if you feel peckish in the middle of the night. We used to go there at 3:00 AM in those long nights of studying for exams. You can be sure that no one you know ever been there, you will only find locals there. So, if you take a nocturnal stroll in Neve Tzedek, go in and get some bagels. Then you can go and look around, eating them on the street (which is perfectly normal for Israelis to do, by the way)

Favorite Dish: Bagels!

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Theme: Bakery
Comparison: least expensive
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter
Address: 11 Pinnes St., Tel-Aviv
Directions: The bakery is in Neve Tzedek, not too far from the beach. Just walk in Pinnes street and look for the flashing light, go into the yard and tkae the second door to the right.

Restaurant Name: Mul Yam

This is not for backpackers! If you are looking for some hummus and fallafel you better go somewhere else. This is a luxury sea-food restaurant, regarded by many to be the best sea-food restaurant in Israel.

As the name suggests, the restaurant sits on the water. Mul Yam in Hebrew is against the sea. Also, written in Hebrew, the restaurant name is almost identical to the word for mussels.


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Theme: Seafood
Comparison: most expensive
Prices: US$41 and up  » Currency Converter
Phone: (03) 546-9920, (03) 546-9930
Address: Hangar 25, the Old Port, Tel-Aviv
Directions: Mul Yam is located on the beach at the old port of Tel-Aviv. If you enter from the south gate on Yordey Hasira street, you should go (or drive) a few hundreds metres to the north until you'll reach hangar 25.
Website: http://www.rest.co.il/RestsSites/MainPage.asp?RID=2998 (Hebrew only)

Restaurant Name: Lechem Erez (Erez Bread)

There are branches of Lechem Erez in several places in Israel, and quite a few in Tel-Aviv. All of them offer great breads and some light dishes. Even the simplest dishes are guaranteed to be of the best quality. You owe yourself a visit to one of the branches.

In Tel-Aviv you can find Lechem Erez in the following addresses:


50 Dizzengof st.
34 Ha'Barzel st.
44 Sheinkin st.
52 Ibn Gabirol st.
73 Yehuda Ha'Maccabbi st.
14 Zisman st. (City Tower, Ramat-Gan)


Favorite Dish: Shakshuka

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Theme: Local
Comparison: about average
Prices: US$11-20  » Currency Converter

Apart from the many restaurants of Tel-Aviv, you might want to try the Herzliya Pituach ones. Started as a modest alternative where people went as the parking was easier tan Tel-Aviv, this is now a major competitor. On a very small area, right next to road number 2 (turn left on Ha'Sira Junction), you will find dozens of restaurants. On top of these restaurants, there are now even more in the new marina which is on the same street, at the other (western) end.


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Theme: Other

Directions: Herzliya Pituach, the industrial zone of Herzliya.
Website: http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/d29/1a136a