Take a successful event with a tradition of a few years, force it to go on a two-year break, and arrive with a videographer for the first evening to document what the union between them looks like.
This is how we felt last night (Monday) on the opening night of the "Tel Aviv Eat" festival at Charles Clore Park in Tel Aviv, which returned, in a more invested version and produced by the Tel Aviv Municipality, at the end of two years of forced corona break.
Maybe it's the start and the first day's opera, but it seems that unlike the regular tradition of grumbling at big events about load, heat, no absorption or anything else, but yesterday it was not, the weather worked out, the queues (except for Aharoni) were not so long And those that did run efficiently and even the cellular network did not collapse.
Chefs, of all sexes and generations, luxury restaurants in front of street food, Mass in front of frozen yogurt, Oren Asido in his first year in front of Israel Aharoni and Haim Cohen who took part in these events in a variety of incarnations - everyone seemed to miss the audience and the audience.
A good and pure atmosphere that really, without cynicism, can be said to have not been seen for a long time.
Should Corona be thanked for that?
The festival will run until next Thursday and will start every evening at 18:00, Charles Clore Garden (near the Dolphinarium), Tel Aviv
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