Igra in the Economy: Here Farm To Table is made real

The pair of Inar Ben Raphael and Tamir Michaeli, who brought Munnar and Igra Rama to our lives, do it again this time with Igra in the economy, a crazy restaurant in Melamed economy, which takes the Farm To Table concept one step further

Igra in the Economy: Here Farm To Table is made real

At the end of 2018, duo Inar Ben Rafael and Tamir Michaeli opened Igra Rama, a new restaurant on Brenner Street, in central Tel Aviv, not far from the Carmel market. They did so while the Munnar restaurant (which is no longer theirs today), operated as one of the esteemed Indian restaurants in the city. In Igra Rama, the pair served a menu stripped of papers. Focusing on fish, they put local raw materials at the center of the stage with minimal care and simple serving. There are crabs, seafood and fish only from our sea, according to the seasons and according to availability, alongside vegetables and fruits from small growers, and on the beautiful courtyard tables are very Israeli dishes like white wine flakes with speckle pecorino, or zucchini and cheese, or bread crumbs, Fried and placed in tomato soup. Ben Raphael and Michaeli's affection for local and seasonal food is now being translated into the new restaurant they have opened, which takes the worn term Farm To Table and shines it.

Diana's mythical chef returns with a new restaurant

Iraga dishes in the farm (Photo: Yael Laor)

Teaching Farm (Photo: Yael Laor, Yael Laor)

The new restaurant, Iggra Farm, is a product of Ben Raphael and Michaeli's friendship with Eric Melamed, owner of Melamed Farm in Moshav Kfar Hanagid, one of the only people in the country involved in organic poultry farming. Apart from the chickens he grows in the Free Range method, he also deals with various field crops, vegetables, leaves and plants, and everything is organic. Until a short time ago, Melam kind of operated a small booth inside his factory shop, where he served only rotisserie chicken and grilled potatoes, but if you get there today, it's already a completely different restaurant, created from scratch and Tamir. Iggra Farm offers a country menu around the farm's organic poultry, but also grows and sells locally grown vegetables, boutique dairy cheeses, and local floured breads. Like the Baghira Rama Tel Aviv, the menu offers "things we prepare for the family at home," dishes of vegetables "most of which are grown in the farmyard, but not by us without intermediaries and suppliers," the menu says.

Egg Salad and Czicki (Photo: Reut Sahar)

Igra in the economy teaches (Photo: Reut Sahar, Reut Sahar)

After dealing with endless vegetables in Vegan Indian Munnar, and with lots of fish at Igra Rama in Tel Aviv, Chef Ben Raphael makes a sharp turn toward the chicken. On the menu, he offers five wonderful chicken dishes, starting with a chicken that goes through a vacuum and then goes into the oven and comes out soft and golden alongside tomatoes and roasted sweet peppers (NIS 68), continues with Caesar chicken, roast chicken breast on Caesar sauce, with a sponsor and hot bruschetta Pecorino (NIS 62), or wings on Turkish spinach (NIS 46), a chicken breast with brown egg and tahini (NIS 66), and a confectionary confectionary salad with fresh onions, full of herbs and spicy chili (NIS 45) . When you decide which chicken you are going for, you can indulge in all the small dishes on the menu, a wonderful egg salad loaded with fried onions, cucumber cucumbers from crazy yogurt or long-cooked zucchini with pecorino and more (NIS 18). Apart from all this there is a wonderful flake dish packed with pecorino and caramelized leeks (NIS 46), a bonfire potato with eggplant aioles with dill and banero (NIS 29), a farm salad of all marble vegetables, fresh, brewed and roasted with feta cheese and roasted almonds (NIS 46). , And more.

Inside the restaurant you can buy the vegetables that grow on the premises (Photo: Yael Laor)

Teaching Farm (Photo: Yael Laor, Yael Laor)

Iggra Farm is not only a restaurant, it is also Melamed's high-quality organic chicken factory, and inside, all the vegetables grown on the farm, olive oil and local cheeses are sold, only Israeli wines, some of which are hard to find elsewhere. The restaurant's tables are on the outside terrace, overlooking the green fields adjacent to the restaurant, to a huge lawn where children can run around, under the large trees and pastoral quiet of the Governor's Village, only half an hour from Tel Aviv. Igra in the economy is currently open only at noon, offering a relaxed mid-day respite, or a family visit with the kids on Friday at noon. It will also open on Saturday.

Igra in the economy, the Goddess 56 Governor's Sector, operating hours on Thursdays 12: 00-16: 00 and Friday 11: 00-16: 00, 08-9123329

Landscape overlooking the vegetable beds (Photo: Yael Laor)

Teaching Farm (Photo: Yael Laor, Yael Laor)

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The courtyard of the restaurant (Photo: Reut Sahar)

Igra in the economy teaches (Photo: Reut Sahar, Reut Sahar)