Tel Aviv Port food festival pairs unusual dishes with free waterfront entertainment
Port Chef, a food festival at Tel Aviv Port, runs from June 15 to June 19 and brings together the port’s restaurants with popular food creators for a lineup of inventive dishes. Prices will range from 25 to 45 shekels per dish, served at designed street-food stalls set up beside the restaurants and along the waterfront. The event is free to enter.
Among the most notable collaborations, Yechi Zino of Pescado will join Julia with a sea sigar and tuna challah. Omer Miller and Agadir will debut keto smash burgers and keto roast beef at what the article calls Israel’s first keto eatery. Michal Epstein and Shake Shack will launch two desserts in their world premiere, while food influencer David Gadzh and The White Tent will offer “priksbicha,” a fusion of frikase and fresh sea-bass ceviche.
Other participants include Yonit Zuckerman with Lehem Basar and Rachel on fish-kebab challah and asado prena, and Dor Peleg with Pizza Formans on two Neapolitan panuozzo sandwiches. Food blogger Neta Slonims will team up with Maison Kayser for a French dessert pop-up led by a molten dark-chocolate wheel inspired by raclette, plus four desserts: choux with vanilla diplomat cream and hot chocolate, caramelized crispy baguette with vanilla chantilly, dark chocolate, olive oil and Atlantic salt, and berry and Dubai mille-feuille with pistachio chantilly, caramelized kadaif and crushed pistachios.
The dessert cart from Pat and Puff will sell Dubai croissants, cornflake crack croissants and maritozzo filled with gelato, alongside Italian gelato from Gelalucci. Also on site will be Oshi Oshi with Asian dishes and Chicken Crispy with fried-chicken street food.
A separate “All Toast” festival in the port market will feature 15 stalls reimagining the Israeli toast, from mufleta in a toaster to a Beirut-style kaak. Beyond the food, the port will host a Paris-themed “Champs-Élysées” area with chanson performances, a French wine gallery, boutique cheeses and a romantic lock bridge, plus an American country zone in the north of the port and a family area called “Stall on the Beach” with beach chairs, film screenings, workshops and children’s activities. Festival hours are Monday to Thursday from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., and Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
