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Smash Burger: No mess, no fuss.

Simply one of the best hamburgers in Tel Aviv

It is not clear what will be left of Allenby Street soon.

It is very clear what will survive him

It will yield money

09/18/2022

Sunday, September 18, 2022, 08:40 Updated: 08:41

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the fort

Smash Burger (Photo: Walla! System, Yaniv Garnot)

The purple light rail line currently only runs at the Allenby Street metatowers.

The visualization shows carriages and rails and stations, wide sidewalks and spacious shops.

She ascends to the bird's flight, above the green and healthy trees, and descends back to the ground easily, with clean air in her lungs and dim memories of what has always been the dirtiest street in Tel Aviv.

it is very sterile, faded in color and strange in wardrobes - no one really dresses like that on this street, and in this city in general, and it is clear that the designer has just returned from the trip he always wanted to do in Scandinavia - but it is a dream.

Or at least the beginning of a dream, and these do not dream with cynicism.

Until it comes true, this train travels mostly in court, and the brutal and sweaty phase of closing the street and digging it up from the inside out still hasn't taken our souls.

Until it comes to fruition, Allenby is still a design-social-culinary minefield, and every step of it is a scene that was cut from The Load of Pain because it was too realistic.

Unless, of course, you go up the stairs and enter the house of Amir Ben Shetrit.

Many tried, few succeeded.

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Disconnect yourself from Allenby, and sit down to eat without constantly looking for sanitizer with your eyes and hands

Ben Shatrit's hamburger fortress opened its doors in July of last year, woke up on its own only four months later, and has been operating excellently ever since, but quietly relative to the scene and the field, and the industry as a whole.

It's fine, everyone who needs to know knows, and if you don't know, now you know.

I am writing a fortress, because there is no other way to describe what is going on here, and because this is the feeling that takes over you already on the sidewalk.

Stairs, as mentioned, separate levels from the dust and soot, a lot of wood inside gives a feeling - yes, I dare say it - pleasant, and in general they managed to do here what many have tried over the years, and very few succeeded - disconnect yourself from Allenby, and sit down to eat without looking for any Order sanitizer with your eyes and hands.

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Not just an experience or atmosphere.

Smash Burger (Photo: Afik Gabai)

Smash Burger has only been around for 14 months, and less than that in its improved format, but Ben Shetrit himself has been living food for almost two decades.

He managed and organized, refined and planned, worked twenty hours a day seven days a week, and in general made it very easy for his friends and relatives, because they always knew where to look for him, and where to find him.

He has funny-in-retrospective stories about a father who "kidnaps" him so he can get treatment in an emergency room, and a relationship with a retired hostess that has more twists than a Netflix romantic comedy, and a Hollywood ending of course.

But mostly - for us, of course, after all, voila!

Food - he has a hamburger.

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Almost neglected, unjustly.

The wings of Smash Burger (photo: Walla! system, Yaniv Garnot)

Hammer provided.

Smash Burger's onion rings (photo: Walla! system, Yaniv Garnot)

Somehow it turned out that we all benefited, because there is no sexier opening line in Hebrew than "come taste first, then we'll talk"

The original show, Corona and all, was a ghost kitchen of course.

Something "thin and bulky", as he defined it.

Somewhere along the way it fell, sometime along the way this Smash Burger was created, and only then did Ben Shetrit realize that he was no longer selling an experience or an atmosphere, but something much more basic - and measurable.

Somehow it turned out that we all benefited, because there is no sexier opening line in Hebrew than "come taste first, then we'll talk".

The menu includes - as of now, more expensive sausages, surprises and things are expected, and in general it seems that every moment something is being tried behind the counter - five versions of Smash (classic, spicy, cheesy, giant and NYC), a crispy chicken sandwich and a vegan burger ( from pea protein), at prices that start at NIS 50 for a sandwich only, and end at NIS 88 for a Giant meal (half a kilogram of meat in a bun), with a side dish and a drink.

Apart from these, there are crispy wings or buffalo wings with spicy sauce, onion rings (NIS 25), Caesar salad and "salad smash", potatoes and home fries, and of course chips, cheese cake or flour-free chocolate fudge and even a happy exit In the form of gummy candies, without a doubt one of the most successful Waltz Manzi crackers in town.

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Value for money is an understatement.

Smash Burger (Photo: Ran Biran)

Chill with your ecstasy, you must be saying.

Let's taste first, and then we'll talk, is still the answer

The New York version of the smash includes, like its friends, two 100 gram meatballs.

Both come off the grill in the MW class, and together create an ideal point of contact of smoking and goos, tenderness and hardness.

Between them, a generous amount of cheddar cheese melts, and around it an ecstatic storm of emotions takes place, consisting of garlic aioli, caramelized onions, fresh lettuce, and tomato-onion-pickle.

Chill with your ecstasy, you must be saying.

Let's taste first, and then we'll talk, is still the answer.

The crispy-fried-chicken-chunks (NIS 39 per sandwich, NIS 55 per meal. Yes, significantly lower than the norm in the city and its surroundings, or "value for money", as Ben Shetrit understatedly defines it) does all this with aioli Addictive Philadelphia, coleslaw and four chunky chunks, coated in tri-crunch.

The opening of the jaw is slightly challenged, but in the end everything comes together in a juggling-textural and excellent-tasting bite.

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In the end it all comes together.

Smash Burger (Photo: Walla! System, Yaniv Garnot)

Adir.

Smash Burger (Photo: Walla! System, Yaniv Garnot)

We usually don't bother with burger desserts.

Here it is far from the story

On the side, wings (7 units for 29 shekels, 14 units for 39, a price that anywhere else would be a Ponzi scheme) were almost neglected, excellent, crispy as well but ones that knew when to get off the heat, good fries, and also a private hammer in the form of onion rings Authenticity, with Philadelphia sauce of course.

Before we went to the sofa, the chocolate cake also managed to warm up.

We usually don't bother with burger desserts, a default of "we have to have something sweet" that usually doesn't meet any burger standards.

Here it is far from the story - fudgy, very thick, has a hard time giving up to the spoon, and barely gives in to the spoon, but deep and bittersweet, and the stamp of what we wanted.

That and gummies of course.

Napkins are needed.

The wings of Smash Burger (Photo: Afik Gabai)

waiting for the train

Smash Burger (Photo: Afik Gabai)

The strange afternoon when I entered the place surprised me with several groups of children who had just finished school, and were celebrating another day of values ​​on the wooden tables.

It turns out that there is a neighborhood "summer deal" here that magnetizes them from the classroom door directly to the wooden table, and pours them a hamburger-chips-lemonade for NIS 35.

There are quite a few famous myths about "it costs more for me", but that is not the story here.

Because Ben Sheetrit doesn't want to blow things up, doesn't want to pretend and certainly isn't interested in making statements.

Years of military fire were replaced by years of food-fire, and they all led him right here.

"I sacrificed a lot, but I wouldn't change my path one millimeter," he shares.

Still, we managed to get a statement out of him, and that's the only one that matters.

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