Tel Aviv for foodies

Best restaurants

Tel Aviv eats late and eats often. The city does not have one cuisine; it has a coastline, a Levantine pantry, waves of immigration, and a long argument about what to do with all of it. What follows is twelve restaurants worth planning a day around — a French brasserie that never closes, a fish counter that runs on ice and lemon, a sushi room off a boulevard, a hummus kitchen that shuts at 17:00, a pasta room that splits its day at King George, a burger grill at the north end of Dizengoff, an Italian bistro on Bograshov, a burger service that never goes dark, an Italian dining room on Kaplan that closes cleanly at 22:00, an all-day breakfast kitchen on Kalman Magen, a Mediterranean room on Ha'Arba'a that runs to 02:00, and a serious grill on a quiet Jaffa-side block. Skip the beachfront terraces built for cruise passengers; the addresses below are where the city actually eats.