Aatmosphere & Design - The location for rock and jazz shows in Herzelia (and it's about time too). The place has this London-Tel Aviv high tech place feeling. Looks good (with small tables, nice stage and all sorts of nude concrete and pipes hanging from the ceiling). 

The shows are great but teh sound is far far too high.

Still - a surprise waits for you - they want to fill all the places as fast as possible before the show begins, so they sit strangers together and considering the tables are very small - this is completely outrageous. We had to breath our table partners cigarette smoke all night long.

Service - Impatient and annoying. My water never arrived.

Price - High .58 NS for two beers and a little olive plate. 

Recommended dish - They have Murphy on tap and Grolsh beer. Both pretty hard to find. We didn't check the food.

A strange thing - The menu does not include french fries which is very strange for a music pub. 

In conclusion...  Go there for the music. Note - this is no place for romantic dates.

Atmosphere & Design - The most Manhattanish design and Atmosphere I have seen in Tel Aviv. Very stylish bar and tables (some with soft couches). Mostly white, with the colorful frozen cocktails on the bar which add a little color. The staff is handsome and a huge picture of a TV anchor domains the lower platform (please don't ask me why). 

The place is also gay friendly (though defiantly not a gay bar).

Service - Oh, the hair styles on the waiters.. Most of them look (and conduct themselves) like they just came out of the Shooki Zikri spring catalogue. They are also gracious and helpful and can certainly handle statements like "well.. I feel like something cold and crunchy to drink but I am not sure what..".

Price - The dishes vary from 20-40 NS, cocktails cost about 35 NS. Desserts, about 20-30 NS.

Recommended dish - Good cocktails (nice cosmopolitan, strange and amusing frozen ,melon thing). 

As for the food - the little goat cheese rolls are great. They're warm, crunchy, spiced with nice herbs and taste great. The chicken and cheese tortilla with tomato salsa and sour cream is great. The sweet potato and goose kische is nice too. 

For the sweets, they have nice brulle cream cake and all sorts of nice chocolate or cheese cakes. Look sweet and round (it is very fashionable these days to make round desserts for some reason..).

In conclusion... My new favorite place. Take your romantic (and sexy) dates there.

Atmosphere & Design - I have no idea why I never wrote on them before, since I have been going there for years now. This is the place to see and be seen. Everybody is pretty and mostly famous. 

I recommend sitting in the back porch. It's much more fun and also saves you from the cigarette smoke inside.

Service - A verity of cute young men will serve your food and will be quick to advise, recommend or switch dishes if necessary.

Price - Everage-high Tel Aviv coffee place price (for example, 184 NS for 2 girls sharing a starter, two main dishes, two cakes and soft and warm drinks).

Recommended dish - So much to recommend, so little space..

For starters, the sweet potato pancakes with sour cream sauce (the place's famous dish). Guaranteed to make you moan in delight.

To continue, I recommend the lasagna, the cheese and lamb cabab or why not enjoy the big plate of sweet potato pancakes? (mmm..)

For dessert you have a wide verity of wonderful cakes of all sorts starting with the famous saki and belgium chocolate cake (my favorite), the verity of lovely fruit cakes or the poppy seed cake with hot chocolate sauce. Don't forget to as for a side dish of home made ice cream (cinnamon, vanilla or almond - creamy and heavenly).

In conclusion... This is the best place on Shenkin street by far and one of the best coffee places in the country. Their cakes (also sold for takeout) are fresh, rich and are sure to be a success.

One last word. For the 4 years I have been going to this place, I have craved the chocolate and orange marmalade cake they have on their menu. I always ask for it and it is never available. Does this mystery cake really exist or is it merely a  metaphysical entity haunting my tortured spirit? One day I will know..

Atmosphere & Design -Small, friendly and very Parisian (the little round tables, the table cloth etc.) with a nice glass cake and pastry display (looks yummy).

Service - Nice and helpful.

Price - Like all other coffee places in Tel Aviv (ranges from 30-50 for main dish).

Recommended dish - The antipasti starter palette for two is nice. The sweet potato kische was nice. I had a veggie lasagna, which was slightly bitter and wasn't very good. Later on that evening I had a little diarrhea attack. Connected or not? history will tell.

The cakes look great, but we were not able to try them due to my feeling too bad and wanting to go home..

In conclusion... A shame - the place looks so cute.. Go there for the lovely atmosphere and maybe a cake and a cup of coffee. 

Atmosphere & Design - A Japanese restaurant and sushi bar. Very high tech. Black furniture, cool atmosphere. The sushi bar is lighted with blue neon. All in all, it reassembles a new 2001 black Volkswagen Golf with blue lighted dash board. Nice.

Service - Quick and professional. 

Price - Oh my god! Elad and I left 568 NS including tip. The price is very high considering the small portions (Onami costs less and their portions are bigger). This includes the house recommended dish costing 100 NS, three alcoholic beverages, one dessert and plenty of sushi.

Recommended dish - All the sushi are very fresh.

The starter dishes we took were great - lovely shrimps rolled in cucumber in vvinegar sauce and good (yet slightly slicky and gooey) pickled sea weed salad.

The best sushi are the salmon and avocado roll, the muscle sashimi is very entertaining (yummy yet so small a portion it is sure to make you laugh). The house dish of rice balls covered in sashimi (red tuna and salmon) in tchini sauce (yes I said tchini sauce) is cotravential - I thought it was too spicy (hot hot hot) and not very good at all, Elad thought it was wonderful and devoured it whole.

The beverages were good - the house cocktail (plum wine and red martini) was yummy, the Kirin beer is great (thought expensive - 22 NS for a little bottle) and their plus wine is sweet and nice (though I had better).

We ended with the orange gaya - a white chocolate concentrated mouse with chocolate chips, covered in nut chocolate and served with orange sauce. Nice, but as usual in these places, not very Japanese.

In conclusion... Slightly better than Onami, yet more expensive and the portions are much smaller. Onami is better value for money, but this place is still much more stylish, and considering the great decrease in service, waiting time and freshness in Onami I would say - try this place, it's great.

Atmosphere & Design - Hard to find a sitting place at noon, tables out and in. Your typical high-tech area nice and clean restaurant.

Service - Not very nice maybe (well it's hard to chat when you have 1,000,000 hungry programmers to serve) but quick and helpful. 

Price - A coupon will get you a schnitzel, 2 side dishes and a soft drink. You can choose between adding another side dish or coffee. Sounds like too little food? Do not worry - it is plenty.

Recommended dish - I had the mustard schnitzel which was yummy - fresh, crunchy and just the right thickness. The side dishes of fresh green salad, crunchy french fries and wonderful sweet and ordinary mashed potatoes with fired onions. Yum yum!

Also, note the nice verity of sauces on each table - ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard and mustard honey sauce. Better skip the orange juice though.

In conclusion... I get hungry just thinking of it..

Atmosphere & Design - Wood tables and chairs, huge fish tank (never fails to present a true wild life drama, watch out for the snake!). You will usually find a table even in the crowded lunch hours.

Service - Shlomi the owner is friendly, quick, professional (and so are the other staff). Never fails to provide for a few more buns when you need them.

Price - The usual are coupon will provide for a starter, a main course and a soft drink. For the price of 48 NS you will get an extended business deal - with an ostrich fillet dish.

Recommended dish - The pate in cassis sauce is a lovely and light starter (even though its texture is more of chopped liver than of real pate). The green salad looks good too. Along with the starters you receive a nice bunch of fresh out from the oven round herb spiced buns - lovely!

As for the main dishes, served with fried potatoes (sweet and crunchy) I recommend the ostrich fillet in wine sauce (costs a bit more, but is worth it). The chicken breast and sweet potato dish is also lovely.

In conclusion... Excellent and great return for your coupons (if you have them..). I recommend going there without coupons too - just imagine what you can get for a full price.. Plus I am willing to bet their desserts are great too.

Atmosphere & Design - Based in a pretty restored old house, they  have no reservations services, no menu and no idea of how a waiter should service his customers. The hall where you wait to be sited is small, crowded and has only two sits. The rest rooms are dirty and have no mirrors (completely out of place in a place where one would like to be able to see if he has been sitting with lettuce stuck in his front teeth for the entire evening).

Service - Excuse me? Waiters roaming around in training outfits and listening to your conversation is not my idea of service. There is no patience, no desire to assist, no courtesy what so ever (not from the staff and not from the shift manager).

Price - 212 NS not including tip (which I didn't want to leave at all, but my partner insisted) for a half bottle of wine, warm drinks, two main courses, two desserts (the starters are included in the price of the main course).

Recommended dish - In the beginning you receive a table full variation of salads, but: the pickles are tasteless and the rice filled vine leaves (in my opinion) came from a can. You also receive half a chala for wiping the tchini and ikra (mayonnaise and herring eggs paste). Nice.

As for main dishes, I received a nice amount of crystal shrimps in a wine and garlic sauce which felt (and looked) like it was made out of powder and water. His lavrak fish was yummy, but after an hour he called me and said he has diarrhea (God knows if there is any connection, but still..).

Desserts - a useless malabi and an OK cheese cake served with blueberry marmalade ended the evening.

In conclusion... Terrible service, average food - I hope the Herzelian branch (2 Sapir st Herzelia Pituach) is better.