This is an essential post. It is a list of our favorite restaurants and foods to eat in Israel. Next to the name of every restaurant, food, or cooking experience is it’s location and what kind of food it is.
Tacos Luis (Mexican restaurant), downtown Jerusalem
Havit (a gastro pub), Mitzpe Ramon
Kadosh (French bakery and restaurant), downtown Jerusalem
Falafel Oved (falafel), Jerusalem
Harvey’s (Texan BBQ), downtown Jerusalem
Aricha Sabich (sabich), Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem
Cooking in the north with people through a program called Galil Eats
Anita (yogurt/ice cream), Shabazzy Street, Tel Aviv
Food tour of Machane Yehuda, Machane Yehuda
Cafe Calo (Israeli cafe), Jerusalem
Jackos Street (gourmet meat), Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem
Ezra (Israeli grill with selatim), Jerusalem
Moussoline (ice cream), Jerusalem
Cachapuria (cachapuri/khajapouri), Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem
Ima borekas (bakery), Jerusalem
Marzipan (bakery), Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem
Rebar (healthy shakes), Everywhere
Dawini (pita bar), Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem
Half orange half pomegranate fresh squeezed juice, any fresh juice stand
1868 (gourmet meat), downtown Jerusalem
Israeli hotel breakfasts, every hotel
Shoko Basakit (chocolate milk in a bag), yotvata (that is the brand that I like), any store
Mini popsicles (the brand is called zפרי/priz), some grocery stores
Modern (meat), attached to the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Papagio (Brazilian meat restaurant), Jerusalem
Chicken thighs (pargiyot in Hebrew), every restaurant makes them well
HaAchim (Israeli fusion), Tel Aviv
Machneyuda (fresh food from the shuk), Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem
Miznon (gourmet sandwiches), Tel Aviv
Sushi restaurant attached to the gas station, Caesarea
Uri Buri (gourmet fish restaurant), Aco/Acre/Akko/Ako/עכו however you spell the name of the city (I don’t know why but it is usually spelled with a ‘r’ even though you don’t pronounce the ‘r’)
Yemenite place (I think it is called Lahuhe), Tzfat
Cooking with Yael, Nachlaot Jerusalem
So… we ate so much good food in Israel, that my top 25 restaurants are more like top 30+. It is actually quite impressive how much eating we accomplished this year. We went to many more restaurants that did not make it into this post.
Also, lots of the restaurants are in the shuk (Machane Yehuda) because most of the good restaurants in Jerusalem are there.
I hope this is helpful for planning your future meals in Israel.
– Naomi
P.S. I am not adding photos, except for one, because there would be over one hundred and it would take me a while to find all of the photos.
These are what the popsicles look like