The Middle Eastern restaurants in Jerusalem are an homage to Jerusalem's prime location in the Middle East itself. Whether you want a felafel, shwarma or sabich, we have picked the right ones for you here
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An appropriately named Jerusalem soul food landmark, Chatzot (midnight) serves up Jerusalem's favorite meat dishes until the late night (which, for this sometimes-sleepy town, is about midnight). Walk down Agrippas Street past the market and chances are you'll get hit by the drifting aroma of fried onions, sizzling oil and spiced meat – that would be Chatzot.
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An unpretentious bastion of Israeli workingman's food in solidly blue-collar Machane Yehuda, Sima has been serving up traditional Middle Eastern meat fare "just like mom's" since 1969. A recent renovation hasn't changed the character of the restaurant at all, and it continues to attract a diverse crowd of local residents, workers, tourists read more
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Housed in an expansive stone building where Agrippas Street meets Ben Tzvi Boulevard, Ima proclaims its culinary weltanschauung with its name alone. It means "mom," and Ima's food is unabashedly simple and homestyle, just like mom theoretically used to make.
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Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem's ever-lively and bustling shuk (market), can be a pretty raw place at times, as one might expect of a Middle Eastern outdoor market. And one of the rawest places inside the shuk itself is the Iraqi Shuk, so-named for the country of origin of many of its merchants. It is a small aisle lined with dinged-up green wooden booths holding precariously balanced mountains read more
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Even though it's wedged between the winding European-esque alleys of Nachlaot and the transplanted shtetls of Geulah and Meah She'arim, the neighborhood around the Machane Yehuda market is an unvarnished slice of Middle Eastern living – which makes the neighborhood's main thoroughfare Agrippas Street the best place in town to sample authentic read more
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A pre-state institution on Ha'eshkol Street only a few meters away from the the combating shoppers and screaming merchants of the Machane Yehuda market, Rachmo has been serving up Iraqi/Kurdish Jewish soul food since the 1930s. Housed in a somewhat oddly-shaped corner building, Rachmo's a little scuffed around the edges, a little dingy, and it won't win any awards for décor read more
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Jerusalem is home to a great many family-owned working-class Middle Eastern meat restaurants, particularly in the area around Agrippas Street and the Machane Yehuda market, which is crammed with Iraqi/Kurdish culinary establishments. Some of these working-class Middle Eastern restaurants have achieved a near-legendary status in the Jerusalem dining scene.
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An upstart established on the corner opposite from the venerable Jerusalem workingman's meat restaurant Sima on Agrippas Street, Sami attempts to siphon off some of the neighbor's crowd with a similar name and an identical menu.
It's nothing fancy, but it's large enough for sit-down dining with family or friends, and it does read more
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The Jews of Iraq and Kurdistan, an ancient community dating back to the Babylonian exile who mass-immigrated to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s, have made a massive contribution to the development of Israeli cuisine. Kubeh, dumplings filled with spiced ground beef and served either cooked in soup or deep-fried, are a mainstay of the Israeli diet and the most recognizable recipe from the Iraqi/Kurdish read more
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The Machane Yehuda market is not only the best place in Jerusalem to stock up on fruits, vegetables, meats, spices and all culinary (and non-culinary) needs. The shuk, and the residential areas immediately surrounding it, are also home to some of the best places in Jerusalem to find traditional, homestyle Middle Eastern fare – many of the area's restaurants are famous throughout Israel read more
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Occupying a significant portion of the Machane Yehuda market's main aisle toward Agrippas Street, Lev Zahav (Heart of Gold) betrays its loyalties right off with a glass case at the front of the store brimming with skewered meats. Spacious, with both indoor and outdoor seating, Lev Zahav serves up pretty much exactly what you would think: skewered meat, roasted meat, grilled meat and just read more
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