Cafe Martini, Tel Aviv (Yaniv Granot)
Seemingly, a completely routine date night.
A man and a woman, a basket of bread that could have stayed in the kitchen and a bottle of red wine, clinking forks and distant looks.
Salt.
pepper.
A pasta that fogs the senses.
Seemingly, a normal date night, almost everyday.
Italian restaurant, red food, a conversation that used to come up and now died.
But this date is the date, and the night, of Parker Posey and Benicio Del Toro, and also of Mark Zeliger.
The main motto of the American portrait photographer is ridiculously simple - "Capture something that no one else has been able to capture."
In this case, for example, he used the momentum of the movie "Basquiat", pulled the two players to the table, spread a red and white checkered map, and had what is probably the sexiest date night in history.
"A good picture needs no explanations", he explained himself a few years later.
This picture mesmerizes the small toilet cubicle of "Cafe Martini" and justifies all its non-explanations.
Come in, come out, go back to your date night.
No need for explanations.
Posey and del Toro's date night
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No combination in the new bar-restaurant should work.
There is a wall-to-wall red and flowery carpet and mottled and elevated seats, barstools that are impossible to move without help from heaven and smooth marble tables, porcelain walls on the sides and chandeliers from the ceiling, a flashy interior and a green exterior.
Eclecticism will not suffice here, neither will extravagance.
Nothing in this story should work with each other, and yet, somehow, everything does.
Happy on the plate, happy in the glass, happiest in the air
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Italian autonomy.
Martini coffee (photo: Walla! system, Yaniv Granot)
without signing a passport.
Martini coffee (photo: Walla! system, Yaniv Granot)
"This place was the right place to fulfill our dream, which is an Italian food bar in Tel Aviv with a feeling of Italy from the past"
The main idea that led the people of DNA Concept Israel was a relaxed takeover of the corner of Dizengoff and Gordon streets in Tel Aviv, and the establishment of an Italian autonomy out of nowhere, one that will take you in its time machine to the sixties and seventies there, and here.
They took the time and invested in the same design, planted olive trees and lemon trees, placed overflowing pots and huge planters, and in the end got before their eyes a Riviera, and a siesta and also a fantasy that came true.
"This place was the right place to fulfill our dream, which is an Italian food bar in Tel Aviv with a feeling of old Italy," explained Eli Fischer, part of the group that also manages the famous Miss Kô in Paris, "We want people to feel comfortable sitting here at any time of the day , settle down and smile."
Dolce Vita is in the air.
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There's burrata and artichoke gratin, deep-fried tallaggio cheese fingers with shatta aioli and dark fig jam, as well as Israeli bravado, which is also Israeli genius, of course, in the form of flaky arancini in cacio a papa sauce
This goal is of course not only achieved through the dolce vita present in the air, but also, and quite mainly, with the help of a dream team assembled to provide a flawless food-drink complex.
Idan Peretz's food menu starts with an Italian brioche that surprises with its airiness and you smear your fingertips with happy olive oil, as if to mark the way.
There are also organic carrots and a wonderful colorful plate of artichokes a la Romana and pecorino and ricotta and garlic confit and burnt eggplant and cherry tomatoes (42 NIS), there is burrata and gratin artichoke feli (52 NIS), deep-fried Talaggio cheese fingers (39 NIS) with shata aioli and jam Dark figs and Israeli bravado which is also Israeli genius of course, in the form of flaky arancini in cacio a papa sauce (NIS 42).
Three salads continue the vacation and five medium-sized pizzas, based on a magnificent dough from Raz Rahab's house and "baked" by him, make you extend it a few more days.
The pasta does the rest.
happy colors
Martini coffee (photo: Walla! system, Yaniv Granot)
rake and close your eyes.
Martini coffee (photo: Walla! system, Yaniv Granot)
If you want, show addictive doughs.
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This dish includes a quartet of variations on the classic Caccio a Pepe with crispy breadcrumbs (NIS 48), basil spaghetti with pickled lemon, blue cheese gnocchi and spaghetti bolognese that actually uses vegan "meat", and prepares you for the justified spotlight that begins to shine on "Mama Yona" ".
The wonderful Yona Sasson (Topolino from Jerusalem, Luca Valino from Tel Aviv) completes Peretz with experienced hands and fingers, and does it from a work station that opens to the yard through a transparent glass partition.
If you want, show addictive doughs.
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Sasson emphasizes flavors in the menu section called "Mama Yona's Corner", and rightly so.
It includes three dishes - "nettle candies" filled with ricotta, pequila tortellini and semolina gnocchi with tomato sauce and fresh thyme - but these are the cornerstones of the house.
Any house.
the criminal section.
Martini coffee (photo: Walla! system, Yaniv Granot)
The food was concluded with a display of dessert purpose that somehow succeeds in a balanced line on the tightrope between tradition and twist.
Tiramisu biscotti, for example (NIS 39) will come with a large tray up to the table, and will be served to you on a plate with a huge, asymmetrical and multi-tasting spoon.
A lemon tart will raise a rum with soft brown meringue and on almost all the tables around will appear profiteroles stuffed with fresh vanilla ice cream, and Calzone Nutella.
There are also three happy affogato variations, with Nutella and chocolate mousse if the corruption wasn't enough to pile up, or with red fruits and pistachio cream, and there are also huge trays of desserts for friends who know how to celebrate, and who know how to order in advance.
The hand, and the heart.
Martini coffee (photo: Walla! system, Yaniv Granot)
A legend of mixing.
Martini coffee (photo: Walla! system, Yaniv Granot)
On the side and in the center, at the beginning and in the middle and even at the end, the alcoholic energy of Moore Coral, a local mixologist who just happened to be born in Israel, and in fact is a justified international star, chatters.
She assembled an impressive and professional bartending team, which rides on a rich martini menu.
Part of it is enjoyed with frolics (rum on Xaviage infusion with espresso and date honey, for example, or a rum mixture with pistachio, oranges, absinthe and salts), part of it salutes the classics (a perfect vesper based on gin, vodka, kina, white vermouth and a lemon twist, or martinis with gin, red vermouth, maraschino and orange bitters), and part of it, according to the new design, will become a kind of speakeasy for connoisseurs, in the form of a secret menu for those who like to go and sip.
high peaks.
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The corner of the bar of Cafe Martini succeeds in turning a flexible but not grasping neck to give a fairly accurate panorama of what is happening.
Old couples in a square meeting and a pair of girlfriends who fill in gaps, a larger group that prefers air, and specially ordered furniture that allows one of the tables to be both inside and outside, and to enjoy both worlds.
This wandering gaze also captures a team that wants to help without being forced, kitchen staff who are proud of what goes on behind the swinging wooden door and so many good martinis that at some point you realize how many of the pots and carpets and tigers and flowers actually come from the same place, to the same place - the Italian Riviera on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, which is also the perfect date night.
Cafe Martini, 130 Dizengoff, Tel Aviv, 077-9386465
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