This is a list of restaurants in Israel. In 2007 there were about 4,400 food and beverage vendors in Israel. [1] By 2012 about 8000 such business were reported. [2] With the highest percentage of vegan population by some estimates, Israel is home to many vegan restaurants. [3]
Burgeranch, also known as Burger Ranch, is an Israeli fast-food chain. In 2010, the Burgeranch chain included 107 restaurants with over 1500 employees, competing primarily with McDonald's Israel and Burger King Israel. In October 2014 there were 79 restaurants in the system and in 2022 there were 64, according to the company website.
A kosher restaurant or kosher deli is an establishment that serves food that complies with Jewish dietary laws (kashrut). These businesses, which also include diners, cafés, pizzerias, fast food, and cafeterias, and are frequently in listings together with kosher bakeries, butchers, caterers, and other similar places, differ from kosher-style businesses in that they operate under rabbinical supervision, which requires the observance of the laws of kashrut, as well as certain other Jewish laws, including the separation of meat and dairy.
Wimpy is a fast-food chain that was founded in the United States. It found its success internationally, mainly in the United Kingdom and South Africa. It has changed between being a table-service establishment and counter-service establishment throughout its history.
Café Hillel is an Israeli chain of coffehouses and restaurants. Established in 1998 by Koby and Yossi Sherf, the chain has 25 locations across Israel. The German Colony location of the chain was the site of the 2003 Café Hillel bombing.
Aroma Espresso Bar, or simply Aroma, is an Israeli coffeehouse chain with 162 locations around the country, and several locations in the United States, Canada, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.
McDonald's Israel is the Israeli master franchise of the fast food restaurant chain McDonald's. Previously operated and licensed by Alonyal Limited, McDonald's Israel is the largest of Israel's burger chains with a 60% market share. It was the first Israeli outlet to be opened in 1993 and a major competitor of the local restaurant chain Burger Ranch. The world's first kosher McDonald's was opened in Mevaseret Zion in October 1995. After a sales decline attributed to consumer boycotts as part of the BDS movement, McDonald's Corporation announced in 2024 that it would buy Alonyal pending regulatory approval.
Mike's Place is an Israeli chain of bars, with three bars around the country.
Café Café is a chain of cafés in Israel. In February 2010, Café Café had 112 locations, making it the largest coffee chain in the country at the time, overtaking Aroma Espresso Bar.
Ramat Aviv Mall is an upscale shopping mall at 40 Einstein Street, in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. At a rent of $1,804 per square meter, it is Israel's most expensive mall and the 35th most expensive mall in the world. It houses many renowned international fashion brands including Louis Vuitton, Emporio Armani, Montblanc, H. Stern, Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Tumi, Longchamp, Tag heuer, Ralph Lauren, Carolina Herrera, Giorgio Armani, Chanel, Rolex, Nespresso, Hugo Boss and many others. Its gross leasable area is 17,800 square meters (192,000 sq ft) and it has 140 stores in two retail floors. Above the shopping is an office building called Ramat Aviv Mall Tower. The entire project—tower and mall—has a gross area of about 80,900 square meters (871,000 sq ft) The mall is valued at 1.699 billion shekels, or 470 million dollars.
Landwer Coffee is the first coffee roaster company opened in Israel and the second largest in the country. It was originally established in 1919 in Germany. The company also owns the Cafe Landwer restaurant chain.
Burger King Israel is the Israeli franchise of international fast food chain Burger King. Burger King first entered the Israeli market in 1993. It eventually closed in 2010, after the franchise owner Orgad Holdings purchased local chain Burgeranch and converted all Burger King locations in the country into Burgeranch locations. In July 2013, it was announced that Burger King was attempting to re-enter Israel. Initial discussions with its original Israeli franchise owner Yair Hasson were unsuccessful, and it finally secured re-entrance to the country by entering into a deal with a French company. The first restaurant, under the new franchise group opened in February 2016, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. As of 2024, there are 17 branches in the country, including 13 in Tel Aviv and its suburbs. Out of all these locations, 10 are Kosher branches.
Papagaio is a Brazilian steakhouse (churrascaria) restaurant, with two locations in Israel: one in Herzliya and one in Jerusalem. Papagaio, which opened their first location in Tel Aviv in 1997, is a Brazilian steakhouse with kosher menus.
Black Bar 'n' Burger is an Israeli hamburger and bar chain with 14 locations around the country. The chain provides 12 different burger varieties, all named after people in American pop culture. They provide vegetarian burgers as well as offering gluten-free buns, in an attempt to expand their customer base. The locations have large bars with a wide variety of beers, cocktails and liquor.
Domino's Pizza Israel is the Israeli subsidiary of the pizza chain Domino's Pizza, run by master franchisee Elgad Pizza with 33 branches throughout Israel.
Cofix is an Israeli coffee shop, bar and supermarket chain established in 2013 by Avi Katz, which uses a fixed price menu system. Most Cofix branches are in city centers, and other popular areas, but some are located in or next to educational institutions, such as Haifa University
The Eucalyptus is a Jerusalem fine dining restaurant. It is noted for its use of biblical ingredients and the use of wild plants and roots foraged from the nearby hillsides, and for preparing traditional and innovative Levantine, Arab, and Jewish cuisine.
Ethiopian Jewish cuisine is the cuisine of the Beta Israel. The cuisine of the Ethiopian Jews is similar to the cuisine of other Ethiopians, with some variations.
Ori Shavit is an Israeli writer, journalist, blogger, restaurateur, restaurant critic, and animal rights activist. She runs a popular vegan food blog, "Vegan Girls Have More Fun." Shavit has been noted for her workshops and lectures on vegan cooking and her advocacy for animal rights and veganism.
Alon Blue Square, formerly Blue Square, is a private Israeli holding company, owned by Moti Ben-Moshe, and based in Yakum. It was founded as a retail chain, but subsequently branched out into real estate and other fields.
Haim Cohen is an Israeli chef, and cookbook author.
The new restaurant from the Machneyuda group will pull its influences from North Africa through the Levant, according to chef Assaf Granit. Jerusalem's Machneyuda restaurant group is opening its second restaurant in London, it announced.
Miznon, a Tel Aviv-based Israeli restaurant, planted its first roots in Texas this weekend in the center of Deep Ellum. The renowned chain is the creation of chef-with-a-dream Eyal Shani, who started his culinary venture with a small restaurant in Tel Aviv in 2011. But the humbly-born concept has grown quite impressively into over 50 locations in eight countries across the world, including Singapore, New York City, London and Melbourne.url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/restaurants/minzon-pitas-and-cauliflower-opens-in-dallas-18997889
המונית של קובי רובין לוקחת אותו עד לבאר שבע כדי להתענג על הפיתה של אסנת מבית הפול, שאוטמת את הרעב באופן סופי ומוחלט - המונה טעם אוכל רחוב
וימפי המבורגר ישראלי משנות השישים, מבשר הפריצה המקדונאלדית [Wimpy Israeli hamburger from the sixties, the harbinger of the Macedonian breakthrough]
׳וימפי׳ פתחה בארץ עוד ועוד סניפים, חברה בריטית לממכר המבורגרים שלא הצטיינו אמנם באיכותם, אך יחד עם משקה ה׳סנפרש׳ גם הם כמו שייכו את ישראל אל העולם הגדול. [Wimpy has opened more and more branches in the country, a British company that sells burgers that did not excel in quality, but together with the "Sanferash" drink, they also seem to belong to Israel in the big world.]
״בשנות השבעים המוקדמות השם המבורגר׳ הוכפש על ידי המתחרה, וימפי, שהוציאה שם רע להמבורגר בגלל סניטציה, הגיינה וטעם לקויים. המבורגר, באותה תקופה, היה בן חורג של הפאסט פוד הלגיטימי, הפלאפל, והוא ניסה לפלס את דרכו ללא הצלחה.״ [In the early 1970s, the name hamburger was tarnished by its competitor, Wimpy, which gave the hamburger a bad name because of its poor sanitation, hygiene and taste. The burger, at the time, was a stepson of the legitimate fast food, falafel, and he tried unsuccessfully.]
Judging by the lines of people waiting patiently for a table at Anastasia, the vegan restaurant established eight years ago, the place is very popular with the Tel Aviv in crowd.
Among the 10 best restaurants in Jerusalem is the bustling Machneyuda
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