11 editor picks in Tel Aviv.
11 splurge places in Tel Aviv, editor-picked. tasting menus and the full big-night-out treatment in Tel Aviv. All Tel Aviv food.
OCD in Jaffa seats 19 around an open kitchen for Raz Rahav's tasting menu of 16 to 20 plates, blending Israeli and Jewish flavours with haute cuisine.
TipThe price rises to ₪760 per person from 1 October 2026. Book well ahead; the room is 19 seats.
Hiba is chef Yossi Shitrit's fine-dining room on Menachem Begin, serving a seasonal tasting menu of ten to fifteen courses in two seatings a night.
TipDinner runs Monday to Friday in two seatings, 18:00 and 21:00; wine pairings cost ₪240 classic or ₪420 for rarer regional bottles.
Pastel sits inside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on Sha'ul HaMelech, where chef Teddy Kagan runs a seasonal kitchen with a terrace over the sculpture garden.
TipClosed Sundays. The Friday schedule splits into a lunch and a separate evening seating.
Popina in Neve Tzedek is chef Orel Kimchi's open-kitchen dining room, sorting seasonal produce into pickled, steamed, baked, roasted and slow-cooked plates.
TipThe kitchen closes at 23:00 but the room stays open for the last table. Closed Saturdays for now.
Dok is brothers Asaf and Yotam Doktor's eight seat counter in Tel Aviv, an all Israeli locavore menu that changes most nights with what the farms deliver.
OrderThe beef tartare with mayonnaise or the wild snapper, whichever the counter is serving that night.
TipOnly two small tables and eight counter seats; book well ahead for a weeknight slot.
Shila moved to Montefiore Street, Tel Aviv in 2025, where chef Sharon Cohen still centres the room on a crudo bar and two aquariums of live seafood.
TipNo Shabbat closure. Thursday nights run latest, with the kitchen open to 01:00.
Toto occupies the Museum Tower next to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, where chef Yaron Shalev runs an Italian and French menu built on oxtail tortellini.
TipA fixed-price lunch of starter and main runs at midday; the oxtail tortellini and chestnut gnocchi are the long-standing signatures.
HaSalon is Eyal Shani's Wednesday and Thursday only dining room off Ma'avar Yabok, a daily-changing menu run from his own farm and local fishermen.
TipOpen only two nights a week; reservations are the only way in and go fast.
Mashya inside the Mendeli Street Hotel is chef Bar Tsanger's dining room, a French-trained cook who names the Carmel Market and old Jaffa as his references.
TipMembers of the hotel group's VIPrima club get 10 percent off; breakfast and lunch run on separate hours from dinner.
The restaurant at Hotel Montefiore in Tel Aviv runs a French Vietnamese brasserie menu from breakfast through to a late dinner on Montefiore Street.
OrderThe hamachi tartare or a bowl of the sea bream in lemongrass cream from the evening menu.
TipBreakfast is one of the busiest sittings in the city; book ahead or arrive right at opening.
The Fisherman's Restaurant in Hangar 1 at Jaffa Port has served classic fish cooking on the waterfront since 1973, facing the fishing boats in the harbour.
TipAsk what came in that morning rather than ordering from the printed menu; the freshest catch changes by the day.
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