Cocktails, wine bars and dives: drinking in Tel Aviv for grown-ups.
Cocktail bars, wine bars, dive bars and gastropubs: drinking in Tel Aviv for grown-ups.
Bellboy inside Hotel Berdichevsky in Tel Aviv pours creative cocktails in playful vessels, with Butler, a 12-stool bar with one bartender, hidden behind it.
DrinkCocktails in playful vessels, from a red fist to a miniature bathtub of bubbles
FoodBar snacks
TipButler, the 12-seat bar hidden behind Bellboy, needs a separate reservation and pours classic cocktails with oysters.
Fantastic inside the PLAY Sea Port hotel in Tel Aviv blurs bar, restaurant and theatre, with surreal cocktails and live music on Wednesdays.
DrinkSurreal, theatrical cocktails built around the bar's literary theme
FoodInternational kitchen menu
TipHappy hour runs daily 18:00 to 20:00, with half off drinks and a quarter off the food menu.
HaMinzar on Allenby Street has poured cheap draft beer since 1992, open from 08:00 until 04:00 most nights and round the clock on Thursday and Friday.
DrinkDraft beer at neighbourhood prices
FoodSimple, affordable bar food
TipMismatched furniture and a young crowd; go after 02:00 for the true late-night regulars.
22 Rothschild on the corner of Rothschild and Nahalat Binyamin in Tel Aviv prices everything, drinks and burgers alike, in multiples of 22 shekels.
DrinkCocktails priced in multiples of 22 shekels
FoodBurgers and bar food, also priced in multiples of 22
TipA late stop on the way to or from the clubs nearby; it opens at 20:00 and runs to 05:00 on Friday nights.
Dudu Bar on the Nahalat Binyamin pedestrian stretch keeps a casual, unfussy dive-bar mood on a dressed-up street in Tel Aviv, pouring cheap draft beer.
DrinkHouse wine and cheap draft beer
FoodBar snacks
TipThe 20 percent discount window runs 18:00 to 20:00 most nights, before the street fills up outside.
Mike's Place on the Herbert Samuel promenade in Tel Aviv is an American sports bar with regular live shows, pub quizzes and sports screenings by the beach.
DrinkDraft beer with a big screen sports lineup
FoodBurgers, nachos, chicken wings
TipHappy hour runs 17:00 to 19:00 Sunday to Friday with half off all alcohol.
Molly Bloom's on HaYarkon Street was Israel's first Irish pub and still runs live Irish bands and rugby broadcasts near the Tel Aviv beach today.
DrinkGuinness, Kilkenny and a full whiskey shelf
FoodShepherd's pie, fish and chips, Guinness beef stew
TipSports fixtures fill the room fast; book ahead for a big match.
Herzl 16 runs a cafe by day and a bar by night around a large, green courtyard in central Tel Aviv, with live concerts and DJ sets on most weeks.
DrinkCocktails on a plant-filled back courtyard
FoodAsian-inspired small plates
TipArrive early for a courtyard table; happy hour pours select drinks at ₪28 from 17:00.
Berlin in Florentin on Chayim Vital Street keeps drinks cheap and the music loud, the kind of Tel Aviv bar where one beer turns into a full night.
DrinkCheap beer and a nightly DJ or live act
FoodBar snacks
TipSunday happy hour runs half off every drink; the crowd builds fast after 22:00.
Emesh on Lilienblum Street, in the space that once held Nanuchka, runs a backyard, a dining room and a dance floor without changing venues in Tel Aviv.
DrinkCocktails across three linked rooms
FoodShareable plates
TipThe upstairs gallery hosts private events; the backyard is the early-evening room.
Bicicletta on Nahalat Binyamin runs a seafood-leaning gastrobar around a big urban courtyard, cooking with produce from the Carmel Market nearby.
DrinkCocktails and boutique draft beer
FoodSeafood-led tapas and sharing plates
TipThe backyard is the pick on hot nights; happy hour runs 20 percent off 17:00 to 19:00 weekdays.
223 on Dizengoff Street has run as a New York style cocktail bar since October 2008, pouring classics at any hour of the night in Tel Aviv's Old North.
DrinkClassic cocktails stirred with quality spirits, in an American bar opened in 2008
FoodComforting bar snacks
TipHappy hour runs 18:00 to 20:00 every day, with the full menu at a flat ₪35.
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