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Darna authentic Moroccan restaurant
kosher Mehadrin
Located in a beautiful 200 years old building in the heart of Jerusalem, Darna- our home in Moroccan brings the story of the Moroccan hospitality as it was woven over thousands of years. Authentic read more
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Melech Hafalafel V'hashwarma (The King of Falafel and Shwarma), if nothing else, is optimistically named. It's hard to be sure exactly which power vested in this particular restaurant enables its dominion over the flourishing kingdom of fried chickpea balls and rotating skewered meat, but if Melech Hafalafel V'hashwarma is truly the king, then vive la read more
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Somebody should probably eventually sit down the Israeli people and explain to them that the Hebrew word "mizrachi," at least insofar as it deals with food, should probably be translated "Middle Eastern" and not "Oriental," because "Oriental" implies a cuisine entirely different from the hummus, tabouli and lamb you'll read more
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The sign says it all: Yemenite Falafel Center. Salads. Drinks. And that’s it.
It’s unassuming little joints like these, which could be five or 50-years-old, that are at the heart of Israel’s restaurant culture. Many Jerusalemites claim that Merkaz Hafalafel Hateimani turns out the best falafel in Jerusalem. They may be right.
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Jachnun is a difficult dish to explain to the uninitiated. To understand it, you must first understand melawach, a Yemenite pastry common in Israel, roughly analogous to the love child of Greek filo dough and a pancake. To achieve its metamorphosis into jachnun, a circle of melawach is rolled into a cigar shape and put into an oven on low heat overnight (it was a traditional Shabbat morning food read more
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America may have its Cola Wars, but Israelis pay no attention to a conflict so banal. Israelis, by virtue of history and geography, have been thrust into an epic, years-long conflict with no end in sight, passions flaring, tempers exploding, steely-eyed, intractable foes digging in for a long, long battle. Israelis, you see, have the Hummus Wars.
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The name From Gaza to Berlin is not, as one might expect, some sort of mysterious Israeli nod to a unknown relationship between the conflict-stricken, densely populated strip of land between Israel and Egypt and the capital of Germany (although come to think of it, both Gaza and Berlin have been squabbled over by two major surrounding powers). Instead, in a shining example of Israeli creativity read more
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Traditionally, hummusiyot are presided over by craggy-faced chickpea patriarchs seemingly frozen in time somewhere south of middle age, sternly churning out secret-family-recipe hummus to similarly weathered regulars. But that doesn't mean the young people can't have a go at it. The dudes behind Hummus Ben Sira are not only young, in fact, but reformed Bezalel artschoolniks who abandoned read more
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There are only two schools of thought when it comes to hummus in downtown Jerusalem, two poles, two Pillars of Hercules, the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara between which flows the Bosporus of chickpea delight: Ta'ami and Pinati. A true connoisseur of hummus, and it is our job at GoJerusalem.com to be connoisseurs, will tell you that Ta'ami is the superior choice.
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Who, after a significant stretch in Jerusalem, has not asked himself why he must shlep all the way up to the far reaches of Agrippas past the Machane Yehuda market if he wants a pita stuffed to bursting with delicious grilled Middle Eastern meats? Who has not despaired at the paucity of kebabs downtown? Who? Who?
Everyone, of course - but finally, someone who could read more
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The Tachanat Haruach (windmill) in Rechavia, right up Ramban Street from the Prima Kings Hotel, has gone through several incarnations in its more than 100 years: It used to serve as the Dutch Consulate in Jerusalem, then it became home to several boutique clothing stores, and now it's again being re-imagined as the home to not one, but two gourmet mehadrin kosher restaurants. Upstairs is read more
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