Kornmehl farm was founded on the eve of Rosh Hashanah by Anat and Daniel Kornel, two graduates of Israel’s School of Agriculture. The farm overlooks the desert mountains with its goat pens being placed in a more nascent fashion in front of man made terraces. This has been a herding technique used in the area for the last 4000 years. The restaurant cheese selections offer patrons the farm’s interpretation of iconic cheeses. The health and contentment of the goats is key to the quality taste of it’s goat milk. The farm restaurant offers a variety of housemade cheeses and fresh breads for spreading as well as a few other comfort food staples like rice pudding, focaccia, and knafe.
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Idi
Idi, located in the seaside city of Ashdod, is a restaurant name that carries culinary weight both inside and outside of Israel. This restaurant began with the dream of a former diver in the Israeli pipeline industry, Idi Israelowitz. After years of trials and tribulations with trying to open several establishments in Israel, as well as a stint at the famed Cordon Bleu in Paris he opened Idi in 1995. His dishes place an emphasis on fine seafood and seeks to provide diners with good food and good fun. The Idi experience includes red tuna steaks, fried calamari, and plenty of high quality wine and spirits to wash it all down.
Luna
Restauranter and Chef Luna Zreik serves honest and authentic Arab cuisine made by fine Christian women. Every week the women of her community come together and offer up their coveted recipes for her kitchen and customers. This is the secret of Luna’s successful operation, the roots of her community. Luna’s dream restaurant has been a long time coming. She originally went to school for special education but after a decade in the field decided to drastically alter the course of her life and opened a chain of cafes bistros where Luna currently stands today. After she felt she knew everything there was to know about the managerial side of things, Luna manifested her dream restaurant incorporating recipes she had been keeping in her head for years.
HaMitbach Shel Ima
Meet Or Yehuda, the originator and owner of HaMitbach Shel Ima. In her kitchen Or is the queen of Israeli soul food and her flavorful dishes pay homage to her family’s Libyan roots. Many loyal customers come here for a taste of mothering. Patrons say that eating Or’s food is like being back in their own homes. Or will even let you peek into the pots to choose what looks good to you.
Elhanan Bread Culture Cafe and Bakery
Located on Kibbutz Mishmarot, Chef Opha Eldad Shmueli has mastered the art of yeast manipulation and dedicated a great deal of time to perfecting the art of baking sourdough bread. His focus is on returning to natural methods of cooking, using local ingredients. Even the location of the bakery is out of the main drag of industrial activity located on Kibbutz Mishmarot between Pardes Hanna and Caesarea. A boutique bakery they have Breads, pastries (sweet and salty), Sandwiches, cakes, cookies, and quiches. Basically everything under the baking sun. Even sufganiyot for Hanukkah.
Frikasse Zehava
Another choice spot in Tzfat for some amazing food is Frikasse Zehava. For the last twenty-three years, Zahava, owner and frikasse expert, has carried on her parents’ tradition of making these golden Tunisian delicacies. Zehava’s Frikasse is undeniably kosher, meaning she received a kosher certification from Israel’s rabbinate making her kitchen kosher till the end of time. Her frikasse is served with shakshuka, couscous, spicy peppers, white potatoes, roasted eggplant, caramelized onions, and hard-boiled eggs.
Meshek Melamed
At Meshek Melamed the first, second, and final concern is developing practices and principles that stand as the antithesis to industrial farming. Every animal lives a free range life, with no added hormones, and possess a general demeanor of happiness. The better the living conditions and disposition of the birds the better tasting the meat. This is something that visitors of Meshek Melamed can taste for themselves by visiting the farm deli and general store. The customers know that everything on their plate was sourced not but ten minutes from where they are sitting. The menu is seasonal, dictated by the will of the vegetables and chickens such as lecho, goulash and jerboa alongside the main dish, organic rotisserie chicken.
Lotte
Part of the Machneyuda group, Lotte, is located in the Galei Kinneret Hotel, considered to be an institution of culture and resilience. The story of the restaurant’s namesake Lotte Eisenberg begins when Lotte came to Israel in 1947 and established the Galei Kinneret Hotel. Through war and several assasinnation attempts Lotte managed to keep her business above water and has hosted a range of historical figures, celebrities, writers, heads of state, and various dignitaries. Today the restaurant that bears her name has made a commitment to the same level of excellence that Lotte Eisenberg pursued with a menu that pays homage to her memory and love of Gallilean food culture like Knerret sardines served with Turkish salad and lemon aeoli.
Ronen HaTemani
Tucked away in the mystical city of Tzfat is a restaurant with no official title but plenty of visitors. Simply known as Ronen’s Place or sometimes Lahuhe Original, Ronen the Yemenite, chef and owner, is whipping up some classic Yemenite dishes with plenty of warmth and personality. Ronen has plenty of personality all his own and from the moment you interact with him it is clear he wants his patrons to have a good time. Maybe too good of a time, serving a lovely combination of wine and qat, a plant that gives one a distinct high or buzz. There is also plenty of singing and dancing to go along with the meal.
Ishtabach
Ishtabach is a compact, unassuming locale serving fresh Kurdish pastries in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda Market. The widely popular bakery-style restaurant is the brainchild of Chef Oren Sasson-Levy, who obtained inspiration from another realm. In the midst of a two-month coma, his grandmother came to him in a dream to explain he could achieve phenomenal success with anything he put his heart and soul into.
Oren decided to open a restaurant in her honor—and the phenomenally successful project has now fulfilled her legacy. Patrons pack out the quirky, tightly packed space on any given night to devour his delicious baked pastries and sip frothy beers. Unsure what to order? Try the signature Shamburak, a hearty Kurdish pastry chock full of veggies and exotic meats.
