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Baka Bakery, Habima Square: The ideal starting point for your next picnic

The baking empire of Shir and Coral Goren moves slowly and consistently around this city, and we have no desire to resist the occupation

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• Habima Square

• pizza

• Fukacha

• Focaccia

• Corned beef

Yaniv Granot

Sunday, 28 November 2021, 06:50

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Real estate space. In Baka Bakery (Photo: Idan Meltzer)

You have to be a very specific person so as not to linger these days in front of the amazing Tel Aviv pictures of Yael Rosen. These were recently removed from the albums and warehouses, slightly dusted and hung in the only place where they are supposed to hang - Dizengoff Street in the city, between the renewed square and Ben-Gurion Boulevard.

The move - a beautiful initiative by the municipality, under the title "Dizengoff in black and white" - features about fifty photos of Rosen, all from the golden age of this section of streets, and she herself increases to do and pampers on her Facebook page with more, no less exciting frames.

have things that have not changed - smoking in cafes, for example, or as mandatory flip-flops for city men. There are a few, jumping on you sharply from the gray picture and shouting the loot - the style that is not flip-flops, the buses (line 6 to the Hilton anyone?) And especially this marvelous historical venture called "Sidewalk".

This is, presumably, because I have already forgotten, a uniform and relatively smooth engineering sequence designed well in advance to allow pedestrians on the street to move safely between roads. The images do not focus on this magic, and rightly so, but it is present in all of them. In some of them you can actually see it and attribute an important part of it to the frame. It's weird, I know, mainly because I'm looking at a couple of girlfriends walking down the street and come yelling at them through the picture, and through the decades that separate us now, to be careful of the scooters.

950 meters separate this square, the starting point of the exhibition, and the bright extension of the Habima Theater. One is crowded with people and poor on benches, the other is laden with little ones and weak in the shade. Both promise to be urban refuge points on a street that loses some control over itself, and both fail to sustain to the end. I would not recommend, for example, any parent to leave their children to roam free in one of them. In fact, I would not even recommend the parent himself to roam free there.

But hey, at least there are pretzels.

Two excellent sandwiches in Tel Aviv

Handmade pastrami, and hills of roast beef

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The Golden Age.

The photos of Yael Rosen

The fifth branch of "Babka Bakery" was located a few weeks ago in Habima Square, closing a desirable urban continuum from the very far north (ie, Moshe Sneh Street in the city, not the Golan Heights) which is the premier location, and opens doors to what is surely a series of very niche but multiple target audiences Very - morning people, new mothers, garden collections, and even just passers-by who have been given another worthy option on their walking route.

Sisters Shir and Coral Goren recruited Brother Gal, went here for wide opening hours (wakes up already at 7:00 and is ready for the onslaught of coffee and pastry rushers, closes at 23:00 and is ready for the onslaught after the performances on stage) and is relatively rare, also extended to sit and watch For all this now with satisfied eyes, though lacking a few hours of sleep.

The result is, right now, the ideal starting point for your next picnic.

3 bombs at 200 meters

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Mythological, and rightly so.

The pretzel of Babka Bakery (Photo: Walla !, Yaniv Granot)

The perfect carb is already happening here, and now things are being put together, built and disassembled, tried and wrong and mostly successful.

The branch itself a wide range of real estate and allows a leisurely wander relatively even in Corona. Conceptual, is divided into several sections. Material, everything begins and ends with playing dough in the family, and if desires you to participate in.

There are shelves of pretzels loaded with configuration sausage rolls (5 20 ), Bites or bagels, and in flavors ranging from traditional to oval (beetroot) and healthier, there are deli refrigerators with spreadable salads, alongside large boxes of salads assembled right now on the spot, as well as several showcases, which make the choice even harder.

The latter offer personalized cakes, including a great lemon tart and extreme chocolate creation, as well as sandwiches from the same pretzels, the size of a corner bracket that climbs to the top.

One of them, based on corned beef (and with pesto aioli, purple onion, kalamata olives, onion jam, manchego cheese and greens, NIS 32), highlights the empty and large cannabis that is currently being painted here.

That is, the perfect carb is already happening here, and now things are being put together, built and disassembled, tried and wrong and mostly successful.

Good, rare urban wiping

When the hand of the north comes to Tel Aviv once a week

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Fresh, hot, romantic.

Baba Bakery's Focaccia

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There is no way to get through here without exaggerating and getting carried away, but when it comes to food it is fun exaggeration and harmless drift

And so, one of those innovations is a colorful focaccia table. The fresh, rectangular and long dough comes out of the nearby oven, happily accepts the toppings - classic tomatoes and mozzarella (NIS 32), for example, or goat cheese with spinach and onions (for the same price) or does well without them (focaccia laden with seeds or sesame seeds at 15 Shekels). The same oven shifts gears in the afternoon (and soon even earlier) with Babka's familiar pizza menu (personally for NIS 38).

You can end it all with those showcase desserts, self-service cookies from the tall bakery carts or with the soft and devotional yeast cakes laid out as a calorie explosive charge in the center of the space, waiting to be activated by the diet-saboteurs hiding within each of us.

In short, there is no way to get through here without exaggerating and getting carried away, but when it comes to food it is fun exaggeration and harmless drift.

Or in other words: come and load up with as many people as possible and for as many people as possible, or come alone, because there is no Tel Aviv "shring" that makes more sense than that, nor is there a more justified "I do not share".

Such food does not require too much talk

Arrive early, on the opening day all the food is finished within two hours

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A little more refuge.

The killing of Babka Bakery (Photo: Walla !, Yaniv Granot)

The normalcy depicted in Rosen's pictures does not rely on any manipulation.

She does not jump or shout, at most she puts a light hand on her shoulder and shows you what a city can be like - people, smiles, life.

Something like fifty years after this lens fluttered unhindered, we're still looking for just that, and we are inevitably pushed from the broken street to squares that provide a little more refuge.

Luckily the Goren family is there to pick us up.

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