Video: New Year's celebrations around the world/Photo by Reuven Castro, Reuters
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 (yes, like New Year's Eve, but we realized a long time ago that almost every two weeks there is some kind of "Thursday... 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 - a moderate hope that one night of New Year's Eve celebrations will finally succeed in burying this miserable year.
Happy New Year, and enjoy!
Santa Catarina, Tel Aviv
New Year's Eve in Santa Catarina/Haim Yosef
Tomer Agay's happy restaurant celebrates 2024 with a new menu that pays homage to local producers and growers, and with celebrations into the night led by DJ Ori Lahav, one of the owners.
You can find here, among others, locus sashimi and intias with local caviar, tuna spicy nigiri from charred Persian rice, winter roots and thorns cooked in vacuum on Vichyssoise from Hamed and Rashad soup, a nice sirloin roll with "scary" balsamic vinegar from Modena, crab burekas with Hameiri cheese and poached egg in homage to Chaim Cohen and the Keren restaurant, white pizza with "a million mushrooms" and black truffles from the Golan, Local lamb chops with onions stuffed with fricky, oxtail shishberk, steak on the bone with organic baby sweet potato, charcoal-grilled red shrimp skewer with "cloud gnocchi", as well as yogurt pannacotta with "strawberries for 30 shekels per kilo" and Sabrina with anglaise sauce for dessert. Price: First round with no minimum order, minimum NIS 300 per diner from 22:00.
Santa Catarina
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Pop and Pop, Tel Aviv
New Year's Eve at Pop & Pop/Courtesy of the subjects
Shachaf Shabtai's happy restaurant will close a year, and open a year, with a Venetian mask night with lots of food and lots of cocktails, masks and costumes and Italian charm, and a performance by Gaia Sharkey.
You can find here, among other things, caviar and truffle beef Wellington, as well as desserts from the land of the boot. Price: 400 NIS for the first round, 550 NIS for the second round.
Pop & Pop
Taizu, Tel Aviv
Sylvester Batiso/Asaf Carla
Yuval Ben Naria's veteran Asian restaurant is celebrating a new year with a tasting menu for two, which aims to provide its "full experience".
You can find here, among others, steamed buns with buffalo yogurt and tomato-eggplant chutney, "Taizu Tartare" in a crispy rice cone, Oyster Gilardo with caramelized cashews and Thai chili, Mount Gao Scallop, "Bengali carpaccio" based on local fishing rod, lamb rhubarb spare mains, selective mains from wild sea fillet in coconut kefir lime crust or beef fillet and a double dessert of your choice such as mousse rice pudding and pandan, "Black Forest" and corn cream with white chocolate. Price: 480 NIS per person for reservations until 19:00, 520 NIS per person from 19:00 onwards.
Taizu
Norder, Tel Aviv
New Year's Eve in Norder/Hermetian dialect
A festive collaboration between the Tel Aviv food bar and the truffle mushroom farm in the Golan Heights has given rise to a special and intriguing New Year's Eve menu, which will be served alongside the regular menu.
You can find here, among other things, butcher's slice with fresh truffles and black garlic butter, pumpkin and bone marrow caplets in white chicken broth, lion's mane mushroom steak with tom cheese and truffles, and sabella hazelnuts with mascarpone cream and brown butter for dessert.
Norder
Menu Novigod, Villa Mare
Novigod menu of Villa Mare / Yael Bonfils restaurant
The pair of happy restaurants in Tel Aviv and Bat Yam are celebrating a new year starting December 20 (and for an entire month), with a special Russian menu, traditional decorations and plenty of alcohol.
There will be solyanka and clotted leg soup, Olivia salad and captivating salad, blintzes and red caviar, pelmeni with beef and lamb and chicken Kiev, Grandma Sarah's Wernicke and beef tongue, as well as a classic Napoleon cake for dessert, champagne, sparkling and mulled wine.
Villa Mare
Echoes of Hope, The Jaffa
Hotel The Jaffa/Amit Giron
The spectacular Jaffa Hotel opens its doors and holds a fundraising event for the orphans of October 500.
The event, titled "Echoes of Hope," will take place at the hotel in cooperation with the "Wrapped in Love" association, which was established to support war orphans, and will offer video installations full of hope and optimism and music performances defined as a "transformative experience" and a "sound healing journey." Price: 1 NIS for a regular ticket, 000,1 NIS for a VIP ticket, 350,2 NIS for a VIP All Access ticket, or 350,<> NIS for a double ticket that also includes a night at the hotel and breakfast.
Cards to Echoes of Hope
"Wrapped in Love"
Wine Bar District
New Year's Eve in Wine Bar District / Assaf Carla
The happy neighborhood bar on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv is celebrating a new year with a special, accessible bubbly menu.
You can find here, among others, Prosecco and Cava Ravantus Blanc de Blanc, champagne Moët and Chandon Brut, Kier Royale combining Prosecco and crème de cassis, and spiced Alder Royale (gin, Saint Germain, citrus and Prosecco).
Wine Bar District
Tasting Room, Tel Aviv
Sylvester Flying Room/Haim Yosef
A collaboration between the Templar Wine Bar and Binyamina Winery will kick off the new year with a celebration of local pouring and plates, and will continue into January with more delicious matchmaking.
The New Year's Eve dinner for two will cost 499 NIS and will include a bottle of wine of your choice, focaccia, roasted Saint Maur brioche, beetroot carpaccio, salmon sashimi with yuzu sauce, endive salad, burrata on cherry tomato confiture, rotolo pasta filled with spinach, leeks, chard and cheeses, as well as millepay crème shanti with toffee sauce and salted caramel ice cream for dessert.
At the same time, and until the first weekend of January, plates selected by Jonathan Shotts, my head winemaker at Binyamina Winery, will be offered, including "Local Plate Terroir" (109 NIS) and "Mediterranean Plate" (129 NIS), as well as a wine list in the winery's glasses, which will be poured from the Tasting Room taps.
Piloting Room
Serafina Viauza, Tel Aviv
Serafina Restaurant in Tel Aviv / Gil Aviram
Yaki Kabir's two Tel Aviv restaurants are celebrating a new year on both floors.
Serafina will offer specialty cocktails such as Jasmine with Aperol and Triple Sec and Jerin Gin with Midori, and specialties such as white fish sashimi with strawberry sauce, lamb chops with Jerusalem artichoke and lemon tart and white chocolate for dessert. Price: Minimum 250 NIS per diner in the first round, minimum 350 NIS per diner from 21:00.
Asian Yauza will add DJ to all this and also offer "Yucca Tuna" (three lightly smoked fish and avocado cream on a crispy Won Ton leaf), "Vigo" (Vietnamese ragu with root vegetables and home made baguette) and "Pagoda" dessert (crispy dough, matcha cream cream, anglaise-coconut sauce and fresh strawberries). Price: First round with no minimum order, 400 NIS minimum per diner from 21:00.
Serafina
Yauza
To Tala Martin, Herzliya
Sylvester Balula Martin/Oz Hayun
Efi Alaluf's sea restaurant opens a new year with a romantic fish dinner, of course, and a lot of alcohol.
You can find here, among other things, cubaniya sea fish, "octopus Lefkada style", purple calamari on the plancha filled with herbs, "Marrakech cigar" filled with long-cooked lamb meat, opposite marinara and a nice collection of rolls, with all that implies.
Lola Martin
Federic, Modiin
Federic Restaurant in Modiin/Assaf Carla
The Israeli bistro opens a new year with a meal with no minimum order, and quite a few special dishes.
You can find here, among other things, ceviche pani puri with fresh bream and melon, veal almonds with garlic and fennel cream, a slice of Flat Iron with spinach and pea cream, and also a chocolate bowl with nut brownie, patisserie cream, praliné mousse, streusel and of course hot chocolate sauce.
Federic
Nina Bianche
Nina Bianche / Nina Bianche Restaurant
Nina Bianche / Nina Bianche Restaurant
The Rehovot restaurant opens a new year with a menu led by Yarin Amira, and a lot of yellow optimism and hope for the return of the hostages.
You can find here intias tartar with yellow beets on tangerine gazpacho, corn polenta and whipped cream, leek raviolo and burnt eggplant in yellow sherry butter sauce and oregano, seared bream with carrots glazed with lemon butter and sherry, and tropical millepay with mango, pineapple and passion fruit cremo.
Nina Bianche
Brasserie 22, Petah Tikva
Brasserie 22/Haim Yosef
The intriguing new restaurant, led by a rare spring, is celebrating 2024 with Parisian ambitions and special cocktails - and at least NIS 150 per diner, in two rounds.
Brasserie 22
Per Dreyer
Sylvester at Pere Dreyer/Per Dreyer
The Tel Aviv restaurant celebrates 2024 with oysters and champagnes, from 16 p.m. until well after midnight.
Per Dreyer
Pop-up Free Spirits, Azrieli Sarona
Pop-up Free Spirits at Azrieli Sarona/Free Spirits
The alcohol company is preparing for 2024 with a dedicated store full of temptations, which will operate until the end of December in the Tel Aviv mall.
You can find here, among other things, special distillates and rare tequila, Italian vermouth and rum from Barbados, French gin seasoned with peach, as well as professional equipment for the home bartender and elaborate gift boxes.
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