New Jerusalem Restaurant and Kosher Certificate Without Chef's Team Granite and Navon Offering Fine Vegetarian Dishes • Get to know the plant

• Vegetable-based dishes

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  Yahav Jacob

Chefs Assaf Granite and Uri Navon have decided to appeal to a new audience who cannot eat in the Jerusalem "Mehanyoda" but want to taste the experience offered by the popular group. This is a kosher vegetarian restaurant (without a certificate) that is currently open in the market, adjacent to the mythical restaurant, and contains about 80 specially designed places.

"This is a project that my partner, Uri Navon, started from the initial stage, this is his baby. In my opinion, this is our most beautiful restaurant to date," says Granite. Whoever will be the head chef reminds us all of the chef games, too, is Assaf Seri, a partner of the two.

"The restaurant is entirely devoted to vegetables, and it comes to fruition that the words vegetarian and vegan should not scare anyone. This is a crowd that in very few places in the country receive the attention it deserves. Chefs have a tendency to warp a face when cooking a vegetarian dish, but in fact what is the difference between customer For people who have different restrictions on food for health, religious or other reasons, it should not interfere with the chef who is truly creative. It's important to say that this is a restaurant for everything, because a lot of vegetarian restaurants in the country are a bit of cafeteria that have been slightly downgraded to other dishes. Not the case here, ”Granite says.

"We realized that 80 percent of our kitchens in Israel and around the world are built on vegetables. Once we realized that, it made sense to open a restaurant that respects vegetables, which also seems most natural and logical to open the vegetarian restaurant by the market."

Missing such restaurants in Jerusalem?

"Yes. We have a lot of people around us who just tell us to give us the chance to eat your food. We go out to cook kosher at events or places we host so we have experience, we don't have the official certificate but none of our restaurants are open Saturday out of respect for the neighborhood. "

Among the dishes you will find an adaptation for dishes that are served with meat such as vegetarian Cuba (NIS 68), Arabis with tahini (NIS 53), pumpkin asado with horseradish and pistachio caramel (NIS 52), smoked cigar (NIS 26), smoked cauliflower steak, cream Cauliflower and cheeky pepper basket (NIS 52).

"There are a lot of things that don't make sense to do them without meat like a Cuban dish," Granite says. "But we are not looking to make substitutes, we are looking to make delicious food. A lot of our food is sectarian-homey that we give a restaurant-chefs direction, and sometimes it is expressed in such dishes but the idea is to take vegetables at their peak, in their best condition and bring Them to the plate perfectly and interestingly. "

The current menu consists of starters such as roasted eggplant and raw grilled broula (NIS 14), egg salad (NIS 10), a kitchenette (NIS 12). Dishes from the tabun such as lasagna roots and cheeses (NIS 54), cobella and grated tomato, a hybrid between challah and Yemenite cobra (NIS 32). Cold stripe with colored beets, balsamic, chili and pomegranate and truffle scones (NIS 44), hot strip with the famous polenta, mushroom ragu, asparagus, parmesan and truffle oil (NIS 48) and with desserts, beet tart, cheese mousse, lime Andene (NIS 42).

"When I read the first menu that Ori and Asaf wrote, I looked and said that if I didn't really know I wouldn't notice that there is no fish, seafood or meat here, there is a lot of interesting food. There is cheese and eggs, although there are many vegan dishes."

Is that because you are interested in developing it?

"Yes, I am very curious to see the reaction from the audience and this is also the first time that we are opening a place that will run throughout the day, from the morning with pastries and breakfasts, which is really lacking in the market, and then lunch and dinner will be served as a restaurant for everything."

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