Winona Forever, Tel Aviv (Yaniv Granot)
All the openings (and closings also, I wish we didn't have to), new menus and limited edition dishes, festivals and holidays, special meals and once-a-year events (we wanted to write New Year's Eve, but we realized a long time ago that almost every two weeks there is some kind of "The... International", and in our places that's reason enough for event).
A chef who is a guest and a chef who also hosts, a restaurant that dresses up and a team that changes places, why not, actually. A dish that gets its own roof (and walls), but also a "hole in the wall" is worth enough for us to report. Eilat and Haifa, the Sharon and the Shefela, and Tel Aviv (but by no means only it).
In short, get Israel's food news. And this time - intensive passport stamping converged for an exciting culinary week. And that's just the first course.
Enjoy!
The River Café in Elena
Summit meeting. Shadmi (right) and Tzur (Photo: Dana Friedlander Oren)
The veteran and wealthy Londoner, a real institution since 1987, arrives on the green ground floor of the Norman Hotel in Tel Aviv, for what began as a reunion of friends, and is expected to reach a two-time culinary peak.
Omer Shadmi and Daniel Zur, Elena's chef duo who previously worked at the Italian-British restaurant, have developed both a professional and social relationship with Israeli chef Shuli Wimmer and head chef Danny Bohen, and make sure to visit the "midrasha", as they call it, with every passport stamped within the kingdom's borders.
Bohan is now paying tribute, with a pair of shared – and rare – dinners (Monday and Tuesday, May 8-9, returning at 19 p.m. and 00 p.m.) at the Tel Aviv hotel.
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Planned market rotation. Toe (Photo: The River Cafe)
According to the plan, the menu will reflect "a connection between the DNA of the restaurant in Tel Aviv and the parent restaurant in London, where there is no fixed menu but two different menus every day that are adapted and installed according to the daily produce in the markets."
To put it a little more pragmatically, these include peach risotto and prosecco, "bania cauda" ("hot bath" in Italian, which is also a dipping sauce), spaghetti botrega, papa al pomaduro, pannacotta and other surprises that will come true after an intensive urban market tour.
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Tel Aviv New York Dinner, Jonathan Sharvit and Nadav Greenberg
Tel Aviv visit. Greenberg (Photo: Gil Aviram)
Another summit meeting will connect the finalist of "Chef's Games" and the Israeli who is waiting together with the New York restaurant Shmone for a Michelin star.
The special evening (Tuesday, May 9) will take place at the lounge restaurant in Tel Aviv, and will implement a "reciprocal dinner" of the two, after sharing a delicious activity between them as part of Tel-Aviv Groove events in the Big Apple, a few months ago.
Dumplings with shrimp. Tel Aviv New York Dinner (Photo: Gil Aviram)
Reciprocal encounter. Sharvit (Photo: Gil Aviram)
The menu will include seven courses and dessert, and will be accompanied by pouring Binyamina wines by sommelier Efi Katz, also part of the Tel Aviv Grove events.
You can find here, among other things, the opening "Mea Shearim and Broadway Corner" which is a Jerusalem kegel with black pepper, sour cream and local caviar, Intias tartar with cucumber consoma and almond milk, Smolina dumplings with crystal shrimp, and a main of lamb spribers cooked for six hours in grapes and bones. Price: 350 NIS (wine not included).
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