Bring us more restaurants like this!
You may not need to get to Michela in particular, but I wish each of the suburban cities of Tel Aviv had one as successful as her.
Avi Efrati
21/07/2022
Thursday, July 21, 2022, 8 p.m.
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Michelle.
Pizza-pasta restaurant for the whole family (Photo: Dan Lev)
In most of the suburban cities of Tel Aviv there is really nowhere to eat original and good food.
The dominance of the big city is particularly sweeping.
Everyone goes to it instead of eating near the house.
In the Ono Valley area it is even twice as blatant.
A really big urban space, with very few restaurants.
Michelle, an Italian who has been working in Kiryat Ono for two years, did not claim to be much more than a neighborhood.
About six months ago, the menu underwent a change, and was rebuilt by the esteemed chef Yogev Yaros, who even cooked there for a while.
Although Yaros is no longer in the kitchen, his menu is completely there.
Even after the change Yaros made, Michelle remained a neighborhood in its orientation and maintained its identity as a pizza-pasta restaurant for the whole family, a paradise for carb lovers (and the horror of ketogens, of course).
It has a small, simple, modest and cozy interior space, and an additional seating area on the street.
The menu includes several "prime" (first) options based on vegetables and cheeses, several salads, eight pizza options, plenty of pastas and one portion of meat.
There were four of us, some of us hungry and some of us less.
We decided to sample from all the wings, not necessarily in the format of an orderly meal requested, but to order for each according to the degree of hunger with which he came.
Palermo Yogi Pizza.
Excellent (Photo: Dan Lev)
We started with a
portion of Borata
(NIS 64) and
a Palermo Yogi pizza
(NIS 68) for distribution.
The burata is defined as a double serving and it was indeed large.
The stuffed mozzarella ball did not drizzle cream to the glory of the Instagram testimony, but was quality and good.
Next to him came a pair of bruschettas with plenty of roasted vegetables: tomatoes and onions, kale, zucchini and pesto.
All luggage was well cared for and seasoned properly.
We marked V for one good starter and turned to a pizza that included two cheeses (mozzarella and strachiatella), orchid anchovies, capers, purple onion, fresh oregano and hot pepper.
This was not a delicate and soft margarita or fungi pizza, but an expressive pizza, whose salty, sour and spicy flavors set the tone.
Those who object to strong reasons should not order dishes like her.
We enjoyed it very much.
The dough was perfect, the topping, despite the intense flavor concept, was balanced and worthy and it was evident that quality materials were used.
We continued for one pasta -
El Arbiata
(NIS 58), a meat dish -
veal shoulder stew
(NIS 78) and two salads, for the less hungry table side:
cesarean with chunks of chicken
(NIS 64) and
panzanella
(NIS 48).
The pasta, based on penne noodles, in a spicy tomato sauce, with basil, parsley and ricotta, was good.
Not one that radiated a measure of excellence like the first two, but flawless.
The noodles were cooked just to the required point, the sauce was sufficiently crystallized and spicy, the herbs gave a proper spin, the ricotta was rich and grated Parmesan closed the corner.
Pasta in tomato sauce, the obvious basic dish, is one of the tests of any Italian cuisine.
Michelle comes out of this test with an absolutely good score, even if, as mentioned, not with honors.
The veal shoulder stew came in a boiling pan and surprised with its dosage.
It was not at all suitable, of course, for the hot weather but was astonishing to satisfy the needs of the carb-shy diner.
The meat is well tender, plenty of red wine flavors, garlic and herbs, almost disintegrated to the touch of a fork and got a spicy-bitter twist from kale leaves.
Particularly good airy gnocchi lay within it, and also subdued the "Quito" lover.
It was difficult to stand the combination between them and the meat.
I do not remember when I came across here mainly meat at double-digit pricing with the prefix 7. It is not unreasonable to state that this is one of the most worthy value for money dishes in the area.
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Veal shoulder stew on gnocchi, one of the most affordable dishes in the country (Photo: Dan Lev)
"Cesare" is an emperor in Italian and the emperor's salad, with a heart of Roman lettuce, Caesar sauce, Parmesan carvings and toasted jaba chips was really cool.
The leaves were very fresh and fresh and the sauce was meticulous and precise.
The roasted chicken chunks were delicious in themselves but the presence of the herbs in them made their match for the salad a bit odd.
It's not so connected.
The panzanella salad, with coarsely chopped vegetables, lots of rocket, olives, parmesan and lots of focaccia, was "okay".
All the ingredients were fresh and worthy but the added value we encountered in most of the other dishes was less present in it.
It's a salad that felt more standard.
We shared a
crack pie
(42 shekels) with a crispy oat dough base with milk cream on top.
Since it is not fair to judge every crack pie in comparison to that mythical Jonathan Borovich dessert at Cafe 48 (even if it is tempting to do so), we will skip the comparison.
It was a sympathetic crack pie.
Michelle is an unpretentious neighborhood Italy.
She is not trying to innovate and you can also jump on her with slippers for pizza / pasta and beer.
No, this is not a recommendation that calls for coming here specifically from the other side of Gush Dan to eat Life's pizza or pasta;
But this is a decidedly good carbohydrate Italian, which, although at its base is generic, the eating experience in it is located beyond generics.
Simple, straightforward but how many places of this quality can you find?
If in each of the suburban cities of Tel Aviv there was only one such restaurant, it would have been possible to announce the beginning of the drying up of the culinary swamps in them.
Bring us generic Italian with a specific weight and added value of a serious chef and we will be happy.
Michela, King Solomon 2 Kiryat Ono, 03-5030535
invoice:
Burrata - 64
Palermo Yogi Pizza - 68
Turn to Arbiata - 58
Panzanella - 48
Chicken Cesare - 62
Veal Shoulder Casserole - 78
Crack Pie - 42
Total: 420
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