A new café called Dopo has opened on a quiet side street in Tel Aviv’s Florentin neighborhood, at 16 Uriel Acosta Street, and is already drawing attention. The place fits a growing Tel Aviv trend of fashionable cafés where design and drinks matter as much as the food, with a future plan to shift into a wine bar in the evening. For now, it operates only as a daytime café, open Sunday through Friday from 8:00 to 17:00, and it is not kosher.
The café is described as very crowded, very compact and very stylish, with exposed block walls, dark wood paneling, shiny stainless steel, a large communal table for laptop users, and a grand coffee station. It attracts laptop workers, parents with large strollers and customers with big dogs, but service is reported to be fast and efficient despite the rush. The kitchen closes early, at 14:30.
The menu includes sandwiches, pastries, cakes and coffee drinks, with prices ranging from 25 to 44 shekels for sandwiches and 15 to 24 shekels for sweets. Notable items include egg salad in milk bread, scrambled eggs in the same bun, gouda with schug butter, a grilled cheese with charred onion, tuna melt, cheese bourekas, banana bread, almond and berry tart, carrot cake, cookies, butter croissant, scones served with butter and jam, and a chocolate nemesis cake.
The reviewer singles out the scones, the chocolate cake and especially the scrambled eggs as the best items on offer, calling the eggs “the tastiest in Tel Aviv.” The dish is served with toasted sourdough, scallions and crunchy cucumber for 42 shekels. The iced matcha also gets strong praise, while the Monblan drink is mentioned as highly recommended though not personally tried.
