A round-up of new food openings highlights several notable launches across Israel this week, including a Jordanian-style shawarma place near Bloomfield Stadium, a new wine bar in Tel Aviv, a forest meat-and-fire concept at Ein Hemed, a specialty bakery in the south, and new branches in Kfar Saba and Eilat.
At Burger Station 23 opposite Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Younes Osroff opened Shawarma Station, serving a Jordan-inspired shawarma made from Black Angus veal and lamb, wrapped in thin Druze lafa baked on a saj with garlic sauce and cut into bite-sized pieces for 72 shekels. The menu also includes shawarma masahhan for 90 shekels, chicken shawarma for 60 shekels, veal shawarma for 65 shekels, and hummus with shawarma for 75 shekels. The non-kosher spot is at 23 Sharet Yisrael Street, near Gate 5 of Bloomfield Stadium.
On Montefiore Street in Tel Aviv, a new wine bar called She has opened from the afternoon, founded by chef Oran Rot and his partner, Shir Bakshi. Its menu includes trendy pastas, fish, bruschetta, leafy salad, ceviche, sashimi, vegetables and cheeses. Also in Tel Aviv, Ooma Thai Bar opened on Bograshov Street as a kosher Thai bar serving from noon, with cocktails, cold and hot starters priced at 38 to 48 shekels, grilled dishes such as satay skewers, and wok dishes including pad kaphrao and pad thai served in a giant omelet pocket.
Near Ein Hemed, Komzitz is running periodically as a meat feast in the forest with shared long tables, smoked and grilled meats, fire performances and live music. It operates once or twice a week, with dates announced on its Instagram account, and costs 295 to 300 shekels per diner, including starters, main meat courses, desserts and soft drinks, but not alcohol. In the south, Giluve bakery opened in Moshav Kokhav Michael, with handmade breads on Tuesdays and Fridays and coffee and sweets on Mondays and Wednesdays, founded by young baker and reservist Tal Vinokur.
Other openings include Martinet Breakfast Club, which has turned the Martinet culinary bar on Achuzat Beit Street in Tel Aviv into a weekday morning cafe from 7:30 to 15:00, and Biscotti’s tenth branch in Kfar Saba, a 130-square-meter cafe-pastry shop that cost about 1.8 million shekels to open. BBB also launched a new express-format branch in Eilat for about 1 million shekels, with self-service screens and a menu of burgers, tortillas, kids’ meals, sides and salads.
