The entrance to Dave Bagels on Pines St.

At Dave Bagels you will find bagels and baguettes that can be filled with deli and other meats. The restaurant is under the top-notch kosher mehadrin supervision of Badatz Harav Rubin.

Dave’s is a street food joint so don’t expect ambiance per se, but the atmosphere is pleasant but simple.

The dining area

The main two types of food at Dave Bagels are meat sandwiches and salads. You can order a sandwich with different types of bagels or baguettes, white or whole wheat, regular or toasted.

What’s unique about Dave Bagels is that they offer American-style deli meats like roast beef, corned beef, spicy beef and turkey breast in addition to chicken breast, schnitzel, chopped liver, meatballs, egg salad or omelets that your sandwich can be filled with.

After getting the basics completed, you can choose between the variety of sauces and vegetables you want added to your creation.

Deli meats on display

Baguette with corned beef

Salad and vegetable fixings

You can also order salads with different types of meat, and there are also specialty dishes such as spicy chicken wings, cholent, chicken nuggets and jumbo hotdogs.

The menu, restaurant details and directions appear below.

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Restaurant Details

Restaurant’s name: Dave Bagels
Address: 3 Pines Street, Davidka Square, Jerusalem
Phone: 02-650-0727
Opening Hours: Sun-Wed 10:30 – midnight
Thursday 10:30-02: 00
Kashrut: Badatz Rabbi Rubin
It is always recommended to check that the Kashrut Certificate has not changed and is valid

Menu

Meat menu

Salad menu

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Grill Bar’s Entrecote Steak

The business menu offers a selection of chicken, steak and fish dishes ranging from 65 to 79 NIS. Each meal comes with a variety of house salads, house-made pitta, a side dish and a soft drink. See the complete menu below.

The evening menu is much more extensive. The chicken dishes include various skewers, stir fried chicken liver (with mushrooms and onions), chilli chicken wings and chicken salad (just to name a few). The meat offerings are also not lacking and include entrecote steaks of different sizes, sirloin steaks, lamb ribs among others.

Fish lovers will find Sea Bream, St. Peter’s, Salmon fillet and Grey Mullet all broiled over coals.

Most meals come with a side dish of your choice.

You can find the restaurant’s contact details, the menus and directions below.

Lamb Ribs

Sinta Steak

Chilli chicken wings

Grill Bar’s Menu:

Grill Bar’s business menu

Grill Bar’s main menu

Restaurant Details:

Restaurant Name: Grill Bar
Address: 1 HaSoreg St.
Telephone: 077-885-7778
Hours: Sun-Thurs 12PM-11PM
Kashrut: Rav Machpud
It’s highly recommended to verify that the kashrut certificate hasn’t changed

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The pizzas come in either large or medium sized pies with a large selection of toppings, and you can even order pizzas with whole wheat in several sizes (see menu below). For those interested in other options besides pizza, the menu offers salads, pasta, desserts and drinks.

If you’re looking for a New York style pizza, ie a thin crust pizza, in Jerusalem then Big Apple Pizza is one of the best options in town.

Restaurant Details:

Restaurant Name: Big Apple Pizza, Ben Yehuda Branch
Address: 3 Luntz St, Jerusalem
Telephone: 02-625-6252
Hours: Sun-Thu: 10:30 – 00:00 | Fri: 10:30 – 15:30 | Sat. night: 30 min. after Shabbat – 01:00
Kashrut: Jerusalem Rabbinate Mehadrin
It’s highly recommended to verify that the kashrut certificate hasn’t changed

Big Apple Pizza’s Menu:

Big Apple Pizza Menu

Deliveries:

Big Apple Pizza offers pizza delivery in Jerusalem. The phone number for deliveries is 1-700-700-105 (minimum order 70 shekels)

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Its breakfast menu offers a typical “Israeli breakfast” (eggs, cheeses, salad and a choice of bread), as well as pancakes, meals with various varieties of eggs, shakshoukas and more.

Salad offerings include a warm Asian salad, Grilled Fish, Italian salad and New Californian Roquefort.

For fish and Italian food lovers, Cafe Rimon has a nice selection of pastas (canneloni, four cheese lasagne, calzone to name a few) and fish dishes include baked whole Bream, Salmon filet, Mullet filet and even fish and chips.

Cafe Rimon is under the strictly kosher mehadrin supervision of Rabbi Machpud.

See the contact details, menu, and directions below.

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Restaurant Details:

Restaurant Name: Cafe Rimon
Address: 4 Lunz St, Jerusalem
Telephone: 02-624-3712
Hours: Sun-Thurs 8AM-11PM | Fri 8AM-12PM
Kashrut: Machpud & Jerusalem Rabbinate Mehadrin
It’s highly recommended to verify that the kashrut certificate hasn’t changed

Cafe Rimon’s Menu:

Cafe Rimon’s Breakfast Menu

Cafe Rimon’s Appetizers

Cafe Rimon’s Salad Menu

Cafe Rimon’s Pasta Selection

Cafe Rimon’s Fish Menu

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Ephraim is a young and very bright do-it-yourself entrepreneur who made aliya from New York. He learned to become a professional beer brewer by reading the 50 some odd books in his library and by lots and lots of experimentation. Even today, Ephraim says he’s constantly trying out new tweaks to his various brews, that goes for his sausage sandwiches as well. But I’ll describe all the culinary stuff more in detail below.

Ephraim Greenblatt, master beer maker, beer judge and smiley host

Ambiance

As my wife and I strolled down HaEgoz St. in Mahane Yehuda looking for Hatch, we walked slowly past staring at the place, thinking to ourselves, “Nope, that can’t be it.” At the time, the restaurant had no signs and kind of looked like a work-in-progress hang out. Ephraim noticed our bewildered looks and gestured and I told him we were looking for Hatch and he said “You’ve arrived.”

When we arrived, Hatch was only 3 weeks old so it truly was still in the work-in-progress stage.

In any case, Hatch is a brewpub that serves street food so don’t go there wearing your tux (if you have one).

Both secular & religious beer lovers come to Hatch

Hatch draws Haredi clientele as well

Hatch’s home-brewed beer & home-made sausages

Cuisine:

While we looked forward to partaking of some exquisite beers during our visit, we came to have a meal while we were at it. And have a meal we did.

House-Made Sausage Sandwiches

We started off with the Louisana-style Po Boy sandwich which includes a house-baked bun and garlic sausage, lettuce, tomatoe, red onion, tartar sauce and a mildly spicy tomato salsa. The combination of the garlic sauage with all the other ingredients was superb.

Po Boy Sausage sandwich with tartar sauce & spicy salsa

The BBQ chip sandwich is filled with a smokey sausage, potatoes, pickles, caper, a bbq spice and mustard and barbecue chips. Yum.

BBQ Sausage Sandwich – smokey sausage with delcious extras in a house-baked roll

The Weisswurst sandwich is a mouthwatering combination of Weisswurst sausage, lettuce, parsley, lemon zest and a honey mustard sauce.

Hatch’s Weisswurst sausage sandwich with honey mustard sauce

And last but not least is the Tunis sandwich. The sausage’s meat is seasoned with harissa, cumin, caraway, and coriander seeds, and although you might think that with all those Mediterranean spices the sausage might be spicy – it isn’t. As you can see in the photo below, the sausage is accompanied by fresh kohlrabi and coriander which make it a true Mediterranean delicacy.

Tunis sausage sandwich with kohlrabi and coriander

Hatch’s Micro-Brewed Beer

I never had any knowledge of the beer brewing process or the different types of beers. After my visit to Hatch, I am still uneducated about beer, but I not longer consider myself completely ignorant. For Ephraim Greenblatt, beer brewing is not just a business, it’s first and foremost a hobby, maybe even an art, and he gladly fielded all of my uneducated questions.

Taking the beginners course Beer brewing 101 would make you aware of the fact that beer is made using four basic ingredients: barley, hops, yeast and water. Beer brewers can create a beer with a particular flavor by altering the types and relative quantities of the various ingredients.

On the evening of our visit, Hatch had three distinctly different beer offerings. I say on that evening, because Ephraim is constantly updating his brews and his sausage sandwiches and so what you taste on one visit may not be what your find on your next visit. That’s part of the creative atmosphere at Hatch.

In any case, these are the beers we tasted:

• Belgium Tripel beer: has 7.5% alcohol (most over-the-counter beers have 5%) and boasts a rich, fruity flavor due to the Belgium yeast in the brew. This was my favorite both because of the marvelous taste and the elevated joy factor caused by the higher alcohol level.
• American Amber:  a slightly more bitter beer because the flavor of the yeast is a bit more dominant (5.5% alcohol).
• Double IPA – of the three beers I tasted, this one had with the highest level of yeast, but the malt balanced it out and it was quite tasty.

Service:

The service at Hatch was superb – quick, super friendly and professional.

A Humorous Kosher Moment

In the video clip below, taken from the security camera at his restaurant, Ephraim can be seen giving a lecture to 20 mashgichim (kosher supervisors) who came to Hatch the week before my visit to understand how beer is brewed. Ephraim quipped that with so many supervisors at his restaurant at the same time it was the most kosher restaurant in the world.

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Restaurant details:

Name of restaurant: Hatch Brewpub
Address: 28 HaEgoz St., Jerusalem
Phone: 052-221-4443
Hours: Sun-Thurs 1PM-Midnight | Fri & Motzei Shabbat seasonal hours
Kashrut: Jerusalem Rabbinate Mehadrin, Chatam Sofer, the meat is Badatz Kehillot
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Menu:

Hatch’s constantly updating menu

Directions:

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The entrance to Nahman

Ambiance

Nahman is located right off the Music Square – more about that in a minute – and its outdoor seating has a beautiful front row seat to all the wonderful atmosphere in the square. Bright, colorful umbrellas serve as a “sun canopy” high above, covering the entire square and providing a delightful, fun atmosphere.

The charming alley leading to Music Square

Harp-shaped fountain in the square

Nestled in the midst of Nahman’s tables is a harp-shaped fountain which provides beauty as well as the soft, soothing sound of flowing of water.

The pièce de résistance of the relaxing atmosphere though is the live music produced by the musicians appearing in the square. When my wife and I arrived, a solo pianist was playing and a bit later a three person ensemble, called the Solomon Brothers, performed until 11PM. The music starts at 12PM daily and goes through until 11PM. Yeah! The volume of the music was pleasant, but not overbearing, and it didn’t interfere with our conversation.

The Solomon Brothers band at Music Square

The indoor seating area is beautifully designed with wall decor, classy lighting, the bar with its floating liquor shelf, the sleek black taboun oven with its visible flames, the arched window with the view out to the square, and even the hand washing area looks aesthetic.

The arched window with the view of the square

Liquor and wine bar

Nahman’s taboun oven

Cuisine

After we were prepped by all the marvelous ambiance, we were revved to focus on our culinary requirements.

The menu offers a nice selection of starters including a variety of salads like Caesar salad, Buratta salad, and Green Salad. The Green Salad caught my eye with its inviting combination of fresh spinach leaves, endive and salad roquette coupled with apples, dates and feta cheese. All these flavorful ingredients are topped with a date-honey balsamic vinaigrette.

We ordered the Mediterranean Ceviche which is a tender, tasty appetiser of raw sea bream, eggplant, slim slices of toasted bread, cherry tomatoes and touches of labane, all arranged artistically on the plate.

Mediterranean Ceviche

We also ordered the Arancini which are rice balls filled with mozzarella cheese served with a flavorful tomato sauce.

For the main course we ordered the fillet of sea bream which is baked in sage butter and served with green beans, shallot onions and baked potatoes. The fish was very tender and tasty and the vegetables were gently seasoned with herbs.

Baked sea bream

We also ordered the eggplant lasagna which is filled with antipasto eggplant and tomato sauce together with plenty of mozzarella and parmesan cheeses. The lasagna was topped with fresh green basil and parmesan cheese.

Eggplant Lasagna

Lastly, we ordered the Margarita pizza. I know, I know, that’s a lot of food, but we didn’t even get close to finishing the pizza, and we took most of it home in a doggy bag – or in our case a people bag. The Margarita pizza is baked in Nahman’s taboun oven and the crust is superb. The pizza is covered with plenty of mozzarella, tomato sauce and parmesan and is worth every single calorie!

Pizza margarita

Service

The service at Nahman was top notch. Our waitress was quick, attentive and always arrived with a smile. Our food arrived quickly, and when we wanted to order additional drinks we had no trouble getting served.

Summing up the evening, I would definitely recommend Nahman for its excellent cuisine, its enjoyable ambiance, particularly with the live music, and its great service.

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Restaurant Details

Name of restaurant: Nahman
Address: 12 Mevo Beit David, Music Square, Jerusalem
Phone: 02-992-0540
Hours: Sun-Thurs 9AM-11PM | Fri 9AM-2PM
Kashrut: Jerusalem Rabbinate Mehadrin
It is always recommended to check the kashrut certificate and the expiration date

Menu:

Main menu

Breakfast Menu

Directions:

Nahman is located in Music Square. Go to Yoel Moshe Salomon St. and then turn into the alley called Maavar Beit HaKnesset. That will lead you into Music Square. The Waze link below will take you to Hillel St. so you can find parking, and then go by foot to Nahman.

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Urbun Cafe, the same youthful spirit, but it’s mehadrin

The owner and operator of Urbun Cafe, Josh Admon, grew up in a secular Jewish family in Westwood, LA. That’s not far from Pacific Palisades where I grew up. Josh decided to drop out of college and enroll in culinary school to follow his dream of learning to become a chef. After several years of working in restaurants in the US, he decided to come on a trip to Israel, and here he got turned onto his Jewish roots at Aish HaTorah and he now lives with his growing family in a Jerusalem suburb.

Urbun Ambiance

Urbun Cafe is a two minute walk from Mahane Yehuda. It’s located on a small side street together with several other ethic and alternative-type restaurants. Seating is cafe style and the restaurant boasts indoor seating for those who want a bit more privacy and outdoor tables for those who like people-watching and enjoying the fresh, outdoor air.

There’s soft music playing in the background which provides a pleasant, relaxing atmosphere.

Cuisine

Urbun’s menu offers a variety of hot buns with toppings and a selection of coffees and other beverages.

The buns are prepared by the house and can be ordered with different scrumptious toppings. Some of the toppings include blueberry bliss, pecan pleasure (peach jam with fresh ginger with crushed lotus cookies) & peanut better cup (warm peanut butter sauce and bitter-sweet chocolate chips) to name a few. See the complete menu below.

Blueberry bliss – a hot bun topped with blueberry jelly and espresso sauce

Service

The service at Urbun is friendly and fast. Josh makes sure everything is running smoothly and is always happy to respond to customers questions or to help out.

I would highly recommend Urbun for the food and the other plusses I mentioned above and also to support this young entrepreneur who wants to provide an outstanding cafe experience to Jerusalemites while maintaining high kashrut standards.

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Restaurant Details

Name of restaurant: Urbun
Address: 5 Ha-Shikma St
Phone: 054-292-0932
Hours: Sun-Tues 8AM-5PM, Fri 8AM-3PM
Kashrut: Jerusalem Rabbinate Glatt Mehadrin
It is recommended to check the kashrut certificate and the expiration date

Menu:

Urbun’s Bun Menu

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If you’re wondering about the restaurant’s name, the term trattoria refers to a less formal, Italian-style restaurant and Haba is the name of the family that established the restaurant (the Haba family is well-known for their bakeries in Jerusalem).

Entrance to Trattoria Haba on Yafo St.

The truth is, I walked past Trattoria Haba many times on my visits to Mahane Yehuda, but whenever I glanced into the place as I hurried by, all I saw was a beautiful variety of breads and baked goods. I mistakenly thought that this was “just” a bakery. I’m not one to go out of my way to buy baked goods. I guess I’m more of a meat and potatoes type of guy.

You might ask how then did I discover Haba – the restaurant? Well, the answer to that is simple – I didn’t discover it. My wife did! We had just finished a very disappointing dinner experience at another restaurant nearby, and we were strolling back to our car when Haba caught my wife’s eye. Maybe I should listen to her more often…

We poked our heads in to take a look and the place was packed. That’s a tell-tale sign that it’s worth investigating further! We asked to take a look at the menu, and it looked really inviting. As we went on our way, I made a mental note for us to visit Haba in the future. Last week I decided that the time had come, and we weren’t disappointed at all.

The Ambiance

The decor at Haba is casual but with some really charming touches. The wall directly to the left upon entering is painted a bright yellow and is covered with professionally designed signs in Hebrew and English touting the “Catch of the Day,” “Pasta Fresca” “Drink in or Take Out” – is that a funny translation from Hebrew or what? Beneath the signs are wooden bins filled with colorful fresh fruits and vegetables.

The adjacent wall is lined with shelves with bags of coffee beans, wine bottles and specialty breads prepared in Haba’s bakery upstairs. The front counter is covered with baguettes, gorgeous pastries and specialty items such as strawberry jam, cherry tomato spread, pickled lemon cream – all made by the house.

The chairs and tables are cafe style, they’re not fancy, but they fit in with the overall feel of the restaurant. Towards the back of the restaurant there is a door that leads to a small outdoor seating area situated in the shuk of Mahane Yehuda. There is quite a bit of additional seating upstairs, but most people seem to prefer sitting downstairs.

Outdoor seating in Mahane Yehuda

Wine bottles on display add a classy touch

The Cuisine

Although the atmosphere at Haba is pleasant, what’s really impressive is their cuisine. Haba’s breakfast menu is not extensive, but it has a lot of variety and the dishes are well thought out and presented with flair. Among the dishes are a healthy quinoa salad, shukshuka, and Trout Benedict (eggs benedict served on a bed of steamed spinach, toasted challah and trout accented with a delightful hollandaise sauce).

Baladi Eggplant with tahini and harissa sauces & crispy focaccia

Haba’s menu for the afternoon and evening has a rich selection of Italian dishes. For a starter, we ordered the Baladi Eggplant which is roasted and deliciously seasoned. The eggplant is surrounded by dabs of tahini and harissa sauces and garnished with chopped tomatoes and chopped parsley. All this deliciousness is rounded off by a crispy, seasoned focaccia baked by the house

For our main courses we ordered the Open Lasagna and the Leek and Potato Latkes.

Haba’s lasagna, filled with swiss chard ragu and grilled zucchini, is baked in a savory, creamy tomato sauce and is topped with tarragon and pecorino cheeses. The lasagna is not heavy on the pasta, but the flavors are exquisite.

Open Lasagna in creamy tomato sauce topped with tarragon and pecorino cheeses

The leek and potato latkes are served with a healthy portion of mujaddara rice with lentils and leeks topped with a tasty yogurt sauce. The dish came out piping hot, and it was truly delectable.

Leek and potato latkes with mujaddara and yogurt sauce

Among Haba’s other offerings are pizzas and focaccias baked in the restaurant’s taboun, spinach fettuccine, the risotto of the day, cheese tortellini and salads to name a few.

Burrata cheese salad

Sea Bream fillet on fettuccine with lemon butter sauce

Haba is famous for their breads, and their desserts looked mouthwatering, but we were stuffed by all the food, and we’ll have to taste those melt-in-your-mouth yummies on another visit.

Baguettes & specialty breads baked in house

A few of the many house desserts

Service

The service at Haba was quite good. We were given menus very quickly, and the waitress returned soon after to take our orders. Everything arrived on time: our drinks, the first course and the main courses. The waiters and other staff were all extremely friendly and helpful. I must note that on the evening of our visit the restaurant was experiencing a very slow night (we noticed that there were very few people walking around downtown in comparison to usual).

During peak hours the restaurant gets really hopping, and it’s best to reserve a table ahead of time because otherwise you may have to wait to get seated.

Parking

Since Haba is downtown, finding parking on the street is extremely difficult. However, there are three large parking lots nearby – one is located under Mercaz Clal on Kiach St, the second one is on Agrippas St. and third one on Mordechai A’liash St.

Restaurant rating:

(1 = poor 5 = Awesome)
Ambiance: 3+
Food: 4+
Service: 4
Cleanliness: 4

Restaurant Details:

Name of restaurant: Haba
Address: 119 Yafo St., Jerusalem
Phone: 02-623-3379
Hours: Sun-Thurs: 7AM-11PM | Fri 7AM-3PM
Kashrut: Jerusalem Rabbanat Mehadrin
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Red Heifer offers a variety of steaks which include:

• Rib eye (350 & 500 grams)
• Filet mignon in cabernet mushroom sauce
• Chef’s steak with a coffee & brown sugar rub
• Slow Braised Pulled beef in mustard beer sauce

Other offerings include meats, poultry, fish and pasta.

Restaurant Details:

Restaurant Name: Red Heifer Steakhouse
Telephone: 02-624-0504
Hours: Sun-Thurs 5PM-11PM
Kashrut: Rav Rubin
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Red Heifer’s Menu:

Red Heifer’s Menu (Part 1)

Red Heifer’s Menu (Part 2 – Steaks & Meats)

Red Heifer’s Menu (Part 3)

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Piping hot lasagne

Piccolino’s Ambiance

Piccolino is located in downtown Jerusalem in the Nechalat Shiva neighborhood, not far from Zion Square. It wasn’t always located there though. Previously it was known as Ticho House, a venerable and delightful restaurant which was located in a charming courtyard setting belonging to the Ticho House museum on Rav Kook St., not far from its present location.

Piccolino’s entrance from Yoel Moshe Salomon St.

Often times the relocation of a restaurant is a death knell for it. The challenges of finding a new, pristine location and of notifying existing customers about the new location are significant.

Outdoor seating

The owners of Ticho House renamed the restaurant Piccolino and found a delightful sight that like the previous spot offers both indoor and outdoor dining. The new location’s ambiance is classy and tasteful beginning with the rounded arches of the doorways, the Jerusalem stone on the inside walls, the little touches like flowers in vases on the tables and even the hand washing area which is quite charming with its straw baskets with real hand towels.

Classy washroom area

There are evenings when Piccolino engages musicians to play live music which can include a pianist or a small band.

Outdoor seating in the uncovered courtyard

Piccolino’s Cuisine

There are a large variety of dishes one can order as a starter before the main course. Two very delicious dishes that one shouldn’t pass up on are the foccacia with assorted dips (pesto, matbucha, tahini, olive tapenade — all of which were lovely) and the Borata salad which does not appear on the menu but is worth every bite. It is a spring green salad tossed with a tasty vinaigrette crowned with a luscious ball of soft mozzarella cheese filled with an amazing cream. A real treat!

Foccacia with colorful and tasty sauces

Borata salad with cheese crown

The Eggplant Parmesan is made with sliced, un-breaded eggplant cooked in a savory tomato sauce with plenty of mozzarella and parmesan cheeses served piping hot. The best word to describe this dish is — yummy.

Eggplant parmesan

Another mouth-watering dish is the spinach cannelloni which are tubes of pasta filled with spinach, cheeses and double cream. It also came out really hot and it is well worth the calories.   

Spinach cannelloni

Piccolini’s lasagne is a true culinary experience with its abundance of creamy cheeses, rich tomato sauce and well-orchestrated spices. It is a healthy portion as are the rest of the offerings.

For a creamy mushroom pasta dish, try the Mushroom Pappardelle which has various types of mushrooms with a rich sauce made of olive oil, garlic, butter, parmesan cheese and lemon.

Mushroom Pappardelle

Other delicious dishes include various types of fish like citrus or roquefort salmon, or sea bream straight out of the mediterranean. For people with lighter appetites there are a number of distinctive salads with lovely combinations of vegetables, olives, cheeses and seasonings. It is worth mentioning the attention paid to the details of each dish with small artistic touches and beautiful variety of colors making the offerings pleasing to the eye as well as to the taste buds.

A review of Piccolino would not be complete without mentioning their sinfully delicious desserts. The oreo cake, which does not appear on the menu but can be requested, consists of two layers of “chocolate heaven” sandwiching a mouthwatering cream filling. This yummy “edifice” is topped with a drizzle of caramel sauce adorned with chocolate lattice work.

Yummy Oreo Cake

The house cheesecake is one of best tasting I’ve tasted in years. It is rich and light at the same time. It is artfully presented with a garnish of sliced nectarines and raspberry fluff.

Rich, delicious cheese cake

Service

The waiters were helpful, knowledgeable about the menu and very quick. I have not seen another restaurant where the entire staff was engaged in full-steam-ahead customer service and attention to details like at Piccolino; that included the waiters, the bar man and even the manager who was actively serving customers. Around 7:30pm, the restaurant began to fill up and soon after that it was packed to full capacity. There was a clear feeling in the air that everyone was enjoying the dining experience.

Restaurant Details:

Telephone: (02) 624-4186
Address: 12 Yoel Moshe Salomon St., Jerusalem
Hours: Sun-Thurs 10am-Midnight | Fri 9am-3pm
Kashrut: Jerusalem Rabbinate Mehadrin
It’s always recommended to verify that a restaurant’s kashrut certificate hasn’t been changed
Piccolino’s Website: www.piccolino.co.il

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