List of restaurants in Israel explained

This is a list of restaurants in Israel. In 2007 there were about 4,400 food and beverage vendors in Israel.^[1] By 2012 about 8000 such business were reported.^[2] With the highest percentage of vegan population by some estimates, Israel is home to many vegan restaurants.^[3]

Restaurant chains

International chains operating in Israel

Israeli international chains

• Aroma Espresso Bar – espresso and coffee chain with 162 branches in Israel^[4] and branches in the United States,^[5] Canada,^[6] Kazakhstan, Romania, and Ukraine.^[7]
• Cofix – Israeli coffee house chain selling most items for NIS 5 with locations around Israel and Europe, as well as in Armenia and Kazakhstan
• Machneyuda Group – operates restaurants in Israel, France, Germany, and the UK
• Max Brenner – Israeli chocolate shop and restaurant^[8] with 36 branches in Australia, Israel, Japan, Russia, and the US
• Miznon – Israeli chain with a few restaurants around the world

American international chains

• Burger King – operating 16 locations in 2023,^[9] out of 19,000 worldwide
• Domino's Pizza – operating 57 locations around Israel^[10] out of 19,000 worldwide
• KFC – operates 16 branches in Israel out of 24,000 worldwide
• McDonald's – 225 locations^[11] out of 40,000 locations worldwide
• Papa John's Pizza – operates 25 locations around Israel,^[12] out of 5,000 locations worldwide
• Pizza Hut – operating 43 locations around Israel out of 19,000 locations worldwide.

National chains

• Arcaffe – chain of cafes in Israel with 29 outlets across the country
• Big Apple Pizza – New York City-style pizza chain with 10 locations around Israel
• Black Bar 'n' Burger – burger chain with 14 locations across Israel^[13]
• Burgeranch – fast-food chain with 107 restaurants and over 1500 employees in 2010^[14]
• Burgers Bar – sit-down, American-style bar restaurant with 30 locations across Israel^[15]
• Café Café – Israeli coffee chain with about 65 locations. Went international for a while.
• Holy Bagel – bagel store chain with 11 locations around Israel^[16]
• Roladin – largest bakery chain in Israel, with 43 locations around Israel

Regional, local, and tiny chains

• Abu Hassan – hummus restaurant with 3 locations in Jaffa
• Beit Haful^{[17] [18]} – chain of 8 Mediterranean restaurants in Southern Israel^[19]
• HaShamen – shawarma chain with 7 locations in the Jerusalem and Central districts
• Mike's Place – American-style bar with 3 locations around Israel^[20]
• Papagaio – churrascaria-style restaurant with 2 locations around Israel^[21]
• Café Rimon – chain of 2 locations in Jerusalem and 1 in Beit Shemesh^[22]

Defunct international chains

• The Cheesecake Factory – operated 8 locations around Israel until 2020. The Rishon store continues as The Factory.
• Dunkin' Donuts – At one time operated 9 branches in Israel, then folded.
• Sbarro – entered Israel in 1995. Had 25 branches at the height of its success, then folded.
• Starbucks – had 20 locations in the greater Tel Aviv region.^[23] Pulled out for lack of profitability.
• Subway – had 23 locations around Israel.^[24] Closed in 2004.
• Wendy's – operated a few years from 1987, had just a few branches.
• Wimpy – An Israeli branch started in the 1960s. It expanded to Sinai, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, and Iran before folding in the 1980s.^{[25] [26] [27] [28]}

Restaurants

Haifa & North

• Falafel HaZkenim, Haifa – famous Israeli falafel restaurant. Briefly had a branch.
• MacDavid – started as a hamburger restaurant in Tel Aviv, grew to 28 branches nationwide, now one restaurant in Haifa.
• HaOgen, Haifa – founded 1942, this is Israel's oldest pub.^[29] Since Penguin in Nahariya closed, it is also the oldest restaurant.
• Yonk – Romanian grill since 1948 in Haifa

Tel Aviv & Center

• Anastasia – vegan restaurant in Tel Aviv^[30]
• Mashya – fine dining in Tel Aviv
• Herbert Samuel – Kosher fine-dining in Herzliya. Was an Israeli chain of 3 restaurants.
• Spaghettim – Italian cuisine in Petach Tikva. Was a chain with 17 restaurants nationwide in 2010.^[31]

Jerusalem & South

• Barood – bar-restaurant in Jerusalem serving Sephardic cuisine
• Eucalyptus – kosher meat restaurant in Jerusalem
• Machneyuda – popular restaurant in Jerusalem^[32]
• Sami VeSusu – Romanian cuisine restaurant at the municipal market of Beersheba

No longer operating

• Café Hillel – cafe, espresso bar, and sandwich bar chain that closed down in 2003^[33]
• Café Kassit – legendary cafe in Tel Aviv
• Mișu King of the Kebab - Romanian cuisine in Jaffa.
• Mul Yam – restaurant that was located in Tel Aviv Port. It was founded in 1995 and burned down in 2015.
• Nizahon Restaurant – Romanian grill in Ashkelon, founded in 1949, closed in 2019
• Penguin – German-Israeli family restaurant from 1940 to 2022 in Nahariya

See also

• Israeli cuisine
• Kosher restaurant
• List of companies of Israel
• List of kosher restaurants
• Lists of restaurants

Notes and References

1. News: Only third of Israel's restaurants kosher. 29 January 2007. Ynetnews. 12 February 2019. Petersburg . Ofer .
2. Web site: מסעדות ובתי קפה: להצליח להחזיר את ההשקעה בענף הכי הפכפך. רעות. ברנע. 14 May 2012. Calcalist.co.il. 12 February 2019.
3. Web site: Why Israel Just Might Have the World's Best Restaurant Scene. Ann. Abel. Forbes.com. 12 February 2019.
4. Web site: Branches Aroma. En.aroma.co.il. 23 December 2015.
5. Web site: Aroma Espresso Bar. Aroma.us. 23 December 2015.
6. http://www.aroma.ca/branches/ Aroma Espresso Bar | Aroma Espresso Bar & Restaurant | Coffee Shop Franchise Opportunities
7. Web site: היסטוריה. En.aroma.co.il. 23 December 2015.
8. News: Strauss Group . Dun & Bradstreet Israel Ltd. . 2010 . 2011-08-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100620190613/http://duns100.dundb.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=comp_eng&duns=600008874 . 2010-06-20 . dead .
9. Web site: ברגר קינג® - רשת ההמבורגרים של ישראל. Burgerking.co.il. 14 January 2023.
10. Web site: דומינוס פיצה - מפת סניפים - Dominos Pizza. Dominos.co.il. 12 February 2019.
11. Web site: מקדונלד'ס ישראל. Mcdonalds.co.il. 14 January 2023.
12. Web site: פאפא ג'ונס - אתר הבית - Papa Johns. Papajohns.co.il. 12 February 2019.
13. http://blackbarburger.co.il/he/pages/default.aspx?ContentID=2 About Black Bar ‘n’ Burger
14. Web site: ברגר קינג עוזבת את ישראל: הסניפים יאוחדו תחת המותג בורגראנץ'. TheMarker.com. 23 December 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20100512120214/http://www.themarker.com/tmc/article.jhtml?ElementId=ad20100509_21421. 12 May 2010. dead.
15. Web site: Our Story | בורגרס בר . 2014-07-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140803095537/http://www.burgersbar.co.il/en/%d7%94%d7%a1%d7%99%d7%a4%d7%95%d7%a8-%d7%a9%d7%9c%d7%a0%d7%95/ . 2014-08-03 . dead .
16. Web site: The Official Site - Holy Bagel Talpiot האתר הרשמי - הולי בייגל תלפיות. Holybagel.com. 12 February 2019.
17. News: אוכל רחוב: פיתה-סביח-פול בבאר שבע. Walla!. המונית של קובי רובין לוקחת אותו עד לבאר שבע כדי להתענג על הפיתה של אסנת מבית הפול, שאוטמת את הרעב באופן סופי ומוחלט - המונה טעם אוכל רחוב. Kobi. Rubin. 2 November 2011.
18. News: הכירו: אוכל הרחוב של באר שבע. Lin. Levy. 6 July 2019. Yediot Ahronot.
19. Web site: הסניפים שלנו. Beit HaFul.
20. Web site: Mike's Place Bars - Nightlife Hot Spots, The Best Bars For Live Music In Israel. Mike's Place Bars. Mikesplacebars.com. 23 December 2015.
21. Web site: Papagaio - דף הבית . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140801145053/http://papagaio.co.il/sitefiles/2/5516/44696.asp . 2014-08-01 .
22. Web site: קפה רימון - רשת בתי הקפה הירושלמית. Caferimon.co.il. 23 December 2015.
23. Web site: Joshua. Alisa. מסעדות בהרצליה. Bistro56.co.il. 14 June 2016. 4 July 2011.
24. http://www.jta.org/2009/08/05/life-religion/eat-fresh-eat-kosher-subway-the-largest-u-s-kosher-restaurant-chain Eat fresh, eat kosher: Subway the largest U.S. kosher restaurant chain
25. Book: Rosenthal, Rubik . הלקסיקון של החיים: שפות במרחב הישראלי . וימפי המבורגר ישראלי משנות השישים, מבשר הפריצה המקדונאלדית [Wimpy Israeli hamburger from the sixties, the harbinger of the Macedonian breakthrough] . 118 . 2007 . . . Lexicon of Life: Languages in Israel . he . Google Books. 9789650715618 .
26. Book: Segev, Tom . ׳וימפי׳ פתחה בארץ עוד ועוד סניפים, חברה בריטית לממכר המבורגרים שלא הצטיינו אמנם באיכותם, אך יחד עם משקה ה׳סנפרש׳ גם הם כמו שייכו את ישראל אל העולם הגדול. [Wimpy has opened more and more branches in the country, a British company that sells burgers that did not excel in quality, but together with the "Sanferash" drink, they also seem to belong to Israel in the big world.] . 1967 :והארץ שינתה את פניה . Keter . Jerusalem . 44 . 1967: The country changed its face . he.
27. News: "וימפי־ישראל" פותחת מזנון במרכז טהרן . Ma'ariv . 27 July 1970 . Wimpy Israel opens a buffet in central Tehran . he.
28. ״בשנות השבעים המוקדמות השם המבורגר׳ הוכפש על ידי המתחרה, וימפי, שהוציאה שם רע להמבורגר בגלל סניטציה, הגיינה וטעם לקויים. המבורגר, באותה תקופה, היה בן חורג של הפאסט פוד הלגיטימי, הפלאפל, והוא ניסה לפלס את דרכו ללא הצלחה.״ [In the early 1970s, the name hamburger was tarnished by its competitor, Wimpy, which gave the hamburger a bad name because of its poor sanitation, hygiene and taste. The burger, at the time, was a stepson of the legitimate fast food, falafel, and he tried unsuccessfully.] . Otot [Signal] . ??? . 1998 . Israel Association of Advertisers . 209–214 . 55 . he.
29. News: המוסדות הקולינריים הוותיקים בישראל. Lin. Levy. 11 June 2023. 16 July 2018. Ynet.
30. News: Jerusalem Post. Anastasia: Trendy vegan food in Tel Aviv - review. Judging by the lines of people waiting patiently for a table at Anastasia, the vegan restaurant established eight years ago, the place is very popular with the Tel Aviv in crowd.. Gloria. Deutsch. 6 August 2022. 19 July 2023.
31. Web site: אלשיך אישרה הקפאת הליכים לספגטים בשל חובות של 12.5 מיליון שקל. מארק. שון. 27 April 2010. Calcalist.co.il. 12 February 2019.
32. News: The 10 Best Restaurants in Jerusalem. Among the 10 best restaurants in Jerusalem is the bustling Machneyuda. Haaretz. Roni. Kashmin. Rotem. Maimon. 26 August 2016. 19 July 2023.
33. http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467676458&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull