Market Pick & Mix (aka Alim Yerukim) in Ramat Gan is not “just” a salad bar from which you can pick and choose from a wide selection of vegetables, grains, legumes and cheeses to create your own custom salad. It also offers freshly baked fish, soups and vegan house specialties.
Build your own salad
The salad bar has a large variety of fresh vegetables including the obvious lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, and carrots. It also includes other options that add a lot of flavor, color and variety like baby leaves, chick peas, kinoa, green peas, sweet corn, beets, black-eyed peas as well as avocado and various cheeses.
After building out your salad fixings, you can choose from several salad dressings including vinaigrette, tahini sauce and garlic dressings. The dressings were OK, but not great.
All of the vegetables looked very fresh and were in abundance. However, I was pretty disappointed that they had iceberg lettuce, but no romaine – my personal preference. Nevertheless, the salad I “built” was a virtual mountain of healthy, refreshing veggies with many flavors and colors. It was part of the business special called Sappa Market that came with soup (or a drink) and bread – 39 NIS.
Other business specials include the San Migel Market which includes baked fish (different each day) or the chef’s salad of the day (based on pasta, rice or couscous) with soup and a drink – 52 NIS. On my visit, the fish du jour was a nice-sized portion of baked salmon with a mustard & herb sauce and the chef’s salad was mix of penne noodles mixed with salmon, vegetables and spices (see image below).
Baked salmon with mustard-herb sauce
Chef’s salad
If you’re looking for something completely different, Market Pick and Mix also offers casseroles, cooked vegan meals such as stuffed eggplant in a coconut-soy sauce.
If you’re feeling like having a natural juice hit, Market Mix has a large selection of freshly squeezed concoctions:
- Carrot
- Carrot & beet
- Apple & pomegranate
- Orange & carrot
- Lemon & beet juice
- Apple
Market Pick & Mix’s selection of natural juices
The place is quite bustling at lunch time. After ordering at the cash register at one end of the counter, you proceed along to receive the various dishes you ordered and to choose the elements you want in your salad. If you get there during “rush hour” it’s a bit of a balagan but certainly bearable.
Market Pick and Mix also offers takeaway meals. You can order your meal either on their website and have it delivered to you or you can take away your meal from the restaurant itself.
Seating
Details:
Address: 3 Tuval St, Ramat Gan
Telephone: 03-5755622
Website: http://alimyerukim.co.il/he/
Kashrut: Kosher (mehadrin) Rabbanut Ramat Gan
Highly recommended to verify that the kashrut certificate hasn’t changed
Ratings (1-5, 1=terrible and 5=awesome):
Food: 3
Service: 3+
Aesthetics & cleanliness: 3
The entrance on Tuval St.
Market Mix’s location on Google Maps
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