I am helping organize a wine/food trip to Israel. My goal is to visit 2 or 3 wineries per day. It will be a classy experience as the ministry of tourism is involved. Highlights include : A dinner at the home of the US Ambassador. Potential meet and greet with the PM. Helicopter over the Old City of Jerusalem and a Private Yacht lunch on the Mediterranean. My goal is to keep the cost (including airfare, meals, lodging, etc ) under $7,000.
We had outstanding meals at North Abraxas and Kitchen Market. We had a very good meal at Claro. We also had a fun, but less serious meal at Manta Ray.
I thought North Abraxas was the most exciting meal I had in Israel. That said, it’s very casual and almost bizarre from a service standpoint. Let’s call it “cutting edge” service and if you’re a stickler for proper service it can be very off putting.
Fantastic trip, wow - Jay, this is going to be spectacular, I’m sure. Is your crew doing a video feature on the trip, I hope, for those of us who can’t make it?
I was there in May, and we hit a couple great restaurants in Tel Aviv. First is the best hummus I’ve ever had at Gargar Zahav on Levinksy St. I can’t remember the name of this place we had an excellent dinner, but it was a bit north of the old train station. I’ll try to find it again later.
I am going to TA in a couple of weeks, so you’ve just given me a few more places to go! (I was there a little over a year ago.)
Oasis ( http://oasistlv.co.il/?page_id=533 ) is a really good restaurant. Cheffy. Good emphasis on local produce/meat. She would probably love to do a dinner for you.
For something a little different, there are two cocktail bars of note. Imperial flirts with Top50 listings. It is really good. Spicehaus has a pharmacy-themed cocktail bar that is a blast.
I would add Goocha to a good restaurants list, at an ‘accessible’ price range compared with the others.
Please note, you do have to be ‘tolerant’ towards a bit of Israeli attitude (e.g. the waiter sees friends walking in would join their table and you’d be abandoned for few minutes, people smoke near the no smoking sign and would offer you a cigarette or a drink in exchange to ‘just leave me alone and let me smoke’ etc.) But the food is a notch above.
that’s definitely one of the best restaurants in Tel Aviv. Would also recommend you check out Sarona Market in Tel Aviv - it’s like a public market full for amazing shops and eateries. It’s becoming the Foodie it place in Tel Aviv…
Sorry, I think I accidentally unsubscribed to this tread. Strange. We are shoot for early October. 12-15 people max. My goal is $6500 (all in). I hope to have itinerary in 2 weeks.
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