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Restaurants

in Jerusalem

Mantra, a gourmet chef restaurant and wine bar located in the prestegious Feingold courtyard in the heart of Jerusalem, is housed in a pastoral 120 year old structure complete with a romantic outdoor courtyard. Head chef Yaakov Elisha invites you to enjoy a culinary experience of delectable meat, seafood and fish dishes, alongside fresh hand-made pasta. The desserts, also made on site, will leave read more

Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market has no shortage of places where you can grab a falafel or shwarma to go, but the newly opened Jacko's Street, the market's first chef restaurant, brings the level of dining in the "shuk" to a new level.

The decor and ambiance of the restaurant is half the experience at Jacko's Street. From the warehouse-chic style brick read more

Inside the upscale Crowne Plaza Hotel is Kohinoor, an elegant but relaxed Indian restaurant serving authentic cuisine from the Persian-influenced northern subcontinent.

Rina Pushkarna, Kohinoor's co-owner and head chef, was born in Delhi to a Jewish family and married into a Brahmin family at age 16. Her husband was a captain in the Merchant Marines, so for nine years, she read more

Opened in 2005 in a sizable lot located adjacent to the capital's defunct train station, and part of a growing restaurant/bar empire in the city, Colony has emerged as a Jerusalem hot spot, so much so that it has seduced other bars into planting themselves nearby and transforming the area into the city's most popular bar compound.

Colony certainly raises the read more

B'Shaarayich is a quality dairy restaurant located in the Old City of Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter, overlooking the Cardo and a stones-throw away from the Western Wall.

The renovated restaurant is spacious, incredibly clean and air conditioned, and promises exceptional, professional service. The dairy menu is varied, offering dishes including pizza, pasta, focaccia, read more

An appropriately named Jerusalem soul food landmark, Chatzot (midnight) serves up Jerusalem's favorite meat dishes until the late night (which, for this sometimes-sleepy town, is about midnight). Walk down Agrippas Street past the market and chances are you'll get hit by the drifting aroma of fried onions, sizzling oil and spiced meat – that would be Chatzot.

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Located on Emek Refaim Street in Jerusalem's German Colony neighborhood, La Boca is the city's only restaurant specializing in Central American and South American kosher meat dishes.

Spanish-speaking cultures of the Americas are not often considered a cohesive unit when it comes to their culinary heritage, but at La Boca, which bills itself as a "Latin" read more

Black Bar 'n' Burger comes packed with a pretty bold claim for a chain in a country not known for burgers: "the best burger in town. Any town." The Jerusalem branch of Israeli chef Tzachi Buchester's ever expanding national chain of burger joints, the kosher Black Bar 'n' Burger occupies prime real estate on Shlomtzion HaMalka Street, done up in primal reds and blacks read more

***Touro will be closed for Passover from April 14-21. Happy Passover!***

Touro is a new, trendy restaurant located near the Old City in Mishkenot Sha'ananim. The restaurant's namesake, Yehuda Tura, was an American Jewish businessman and philanthropist who donated money to Montefiore, enabling him to build the Mishkenot read more

A Mediterranean bistro-style restaurant set amid pastoral surroundings, Brasserie adds flair to a classic menu concept. Fish kebabs are served with pickled lemon slices and soft goat cheese, seafood cannelloni comes in "bloody Mary" sauce, the roast beef club sandwich is brought to life with arugula leaves, gnocchi is stuffed with ricotta and spinach, and the roasted read more

Sushi Rechavia has big shoes to fill. Its flagship Azza Road location occupies what was once Cafe Atara, a Jerusalem landmark, favored coffeeshop of urban politicos and intellectuals for decades. But times change, and Sushi Rechavia's supplantation of Atara is proof that Japanese cuisine has made it in the capital. Although it is sad to see Atara go, the trend of niche ethnic menus replacing read more