Tel Aviv Restaurants

Aubergine
Extremely grand and elegant setting on the third floor of the luxury David InterContinental hotel, offering skillful French cuisine, with many vegetarian options. Attentive service.

12 Kaufman Street
Tel: (03) 795 1111.
Price: $$$$

Café London
Big, crowded, easy-going, and right beside the beach, this huge open-air eatery offers a very wide selection of dishes all day and all evening. There is perhaps an emphasis on quantity rather than quality, and the service can be very laid back, but it has an ideal location on the promenade.

Herbert Samuel Boulevard, beside Sheraton Hotel
Price: $$

Gilly's
A Jerusalem dining favourite that moved to the Tel Aviv waterfront, offering top quality beef with salad, plus a range of first-class fish dishes, in a big warehouse-style environment with great sea views.

Hangar 26, Tel Aviv Port
Tel: (03) 605 7777.
Price: $$$$

Max Brenner Chocolate Bar
It is chocolate with everything at this fantastic, attractive, fun restaurant, one of several worldwide branches of this chocoholics' paradise, serving a surprisingly wide and appealing menu. Finish with coffee or choose from three kinds of hot chocolate.

45 Rothschild Boulevard
Tel: (03) 560 4570.
Website: www.maxbrenner.com
Price: $$$

Shaul's Inn
On two levels, with dark wood furnishings and a warm, folksy atmosphere, this is a long-standing favourite for high-quality meat dishes in the quiet streets of the atmospheric Yemenite quarter near Carmel Market. Try, for example, delicious breast of lamb stuffed with herbs and pine nuts.

Eliyashiv Street
Tel: (03) 517 7619.
Price: $$

Yotvata b'Ir ('Yotvata in the city')
Across the road from the beachside promenade, this popular, relaxed restaurant serves a wide range of dishes at affordable prices, with several vegetarian choices, but specialises in dairy products from Yotvata kibbutz in the Negev.

80 Herbert Samuel Boulevard
Tel: (03) 510 4667.
Price: $