Atmosphere & Design - Orange, yellow and red tables, jazzy music, darkish atmosphere - All in all, rather New Yorkish I think. Sitting there felt like being teleported to the middle of a Woody Allen film. But worst (details further on) this place is WEIRD !!  And oh - the forks have the longest teeth I have ever seen. What's the deal with that?

Service -  In one word? it's WEIRD. Our waitress was so unbelievably weird she kept saying terrible stuff by mistake (like commenting on the chef being oh sooooo slow and service being bad, not to mention the time she almost shouted on my partner for looking at the menu trying to decide on a cocktail. Scared the hell out of him I might add..) and the worst is yet to come.

Price -  314 NS not including tip for two cocktails, one first course and two main ones plus two desserts and one coffee.

Recommended dish - Like, hello ?! 

This place's nicest thing is the bread basket (yes you guessed it, it's also weird. But - in a good way). They have all sorts of bread sticks, little crunchy pizza cracker thingies, parmesan and herbs muffins and nice warm olive bread. But even here they must ruin everything - it costs 16 NS and is not enough for two hungry people. The sweet potato gnocchi in  caramel and chicken liver sauce with broccoli, tasted great at first, but after four more bites felt so terribly heavy in my stomach I thought I would explode right there and then. The desserts - Peanut butter tarrin, peanut butter and banana ice cream had almost no taste at all. My partner's fruit salad was ok.

Be especially careful of the local cocktails, ranging from weak (frozen apple sour) to plain bizarre (amaretto sour, combining the taste of sweet and bitter almonds with lemon and other unearthly elements). The most horrible thing was that my partner, once having a sip of his amaretto cocktail, became strange himself. We are certain the alcohol amounts (about 0.5% of the entire glass in my opinion) had nothing to do with it. The man just was not himself for the next hour or so laughing oddly and laying helplessly on his sit while giggling like a 13 year old girl. The next reasonable thing to happen being a pink elephant coming out of the kitchen in a chef's suite complaining the air condition had gone off or something. 

      

But... Sagi and Heli loved the place. I must add though, that they didn't have any of the things we did but only had desserts and coffee after a movie. 
 

or  ? I just can't decide.. 
Maybe you can tell me your opinion..
 

After a return visit... I decided the place indeed is strange as hell, but the food was ruther good and the service was much better. hmm.. My chicken confy with spring rolls stuck in it was designed beautifully, but was a bit to fat and heavy for me. We had the special chocolate dessert and the "regulr" chocoate desserts who were both reach, tasteful and all in all - great. The bread basket was missing the great little muffins which was a great disappointment. All in all, dinner was much fun and I have to change my review to a shining

Atmosphere & Design -  Now moved to the old "Ooh la la!" location, it is less homey than it used to be, but still friendly and much much fun for little groups. Lots of tables ensure you will find a place to sit at all times.

Service - Courteous and gracious. 

Price -  At about 100 NS per person you would make little happy sounds all the way home, this including desserts, saki and green tea. They also have all sorts of business meals ranging from 29 NS (for noodles, soft drinks and dessert) to 100 NS (for a couples dim sum combination).

Recommended dish -  Hmm.. let's think. Nice hand made noodles in all sorts of combination with different meats. As for dim sums, I love the shu mai (open dough) filled with spinach and peanuts, everything with shrimp in it and all puffy bau puffs (steamed filed yeast dough). I like the steamed dim sums rather then the fried ones. Ooh, I also love the saki and plum wines.

In conclusion...  Cool cool cool. We went there again for our independence day celebration with the all knowing Noam L. plus it is one of the greatest take away's in Tel Aviv.

You can view their deliveries menu online if you wish

Service -  The "Ha-Barzel" branch keeps a courteous and smiley attitude even at the crowdest lunch hours when hounded of hungry hi tech employees swamp the place with their trembling coupons.

Price -  Coupons get you a light lunch, salad or antipasti, lemonade and piece of cake.

Recommended dish -  The fuccacha with kabbab in yogurt sauce is great. They usually have good pizzetas and I am told the pasta is also good. The earl grey tea cake is yummy as well as the pumpkin cake with walnuts and raisins.

If you are buying to take home - take the plum and chocolate rich cake. Oh mama! They also have a wonderful feta cheese.

In conclusion...  Nice enough. I also have to check the Herzelia branch, which I am told had become a very classy restaurant.

 

Atmosphere & Design -Hi techy, clean and classy all in one place. They have a few levels, nice big tables, some attractive looking products (wine, sushi stuff, china etc) shelves and very nice china. They only lack in matching spoons, which ruins the overall picture.

Service -  Go young dark hair waiter go! Yes, our main courses took a rather long time to arrive, but he gave us complimentary miso soups and drinks and was very polite and helpful all in all. The owner is also quick to offer help when necessary.

Price -  We each left about 130 NS (in coupons) there, but that was because we really pushed it. A coupon (33 NS) will get you miso soup or salad, plain little sushi combination or noodles and drinks. Actually, all courses in the menu that are less then 46 NS are included in this business lunch. Anyway, we left about 360 NS for three people eating  sushi like there's no tomorrow, drinking some saki and feasting on a great big bowl of ice-cream for dessert (again, all soups and soft drinks plus green tea were in courtesy of the house).

Recommended dish -  The super gormet roll (three color inside out), the garage pyramid roll (a beautiful inside out), yellow tail sashimi and the campio (pickled Japanese pumpkin). The green tea ice-cream was nice and very generous in size, though a bit to frozen in my taste. 

Refine from taking the tobiko (flying fish eggs, small, black and very enjoying) and the dennis roll. I thought the salmon skin roll was the worst I have ever had (reminded me of fried canned tuna) but Hannit thought it was the best she had ever had, so..

In conclusion...  The best option for coupons in the Atidim area in my opinion and a very nice competitor for the Sushi Bar all by itself. They also do deliveries. Yum!

Something to think about - I don't like Japanese restaurants who don't place a knife and fork on the table along side the chop sticks. Why embarrass those who need conventioal means of getting to their dinner?

A few more take aways and one visit later... Not only did their quality decrease dramatically (their take away rolls had dropped from yummy to disgusting in only one month) but in our last visit there one of us found a 2.5 cm fried bug in his salad. The place manager spanned about 2 minutes trying to decide, along with the waitress, if it was a grass hopper or a very big spider instead of just getting the thing off our table. Me and the poor bug-finder-guy were sick to our stomachs. We receievd two desserts for free as lame compensation attempt, which was too little too late (2 desserts for 7 pople?). I am never going back tere again, you can count on that.

Atmosphere & Design -  "French inspired Japanese food" (or was it the other way around?). Nice looking from both the inside and out. Big tables, big bar, big menus. 

Service -  They have something  to learn in this field I think. Not very fast, not very helpful, not very nice. 

Price - Expensive: 428 NS for soft drinks, saki, martini cocktails,  first, main and last courses and warm drinks. 

Recommended dish -  Dennis filet and risotto, banana roll dessert.

In conclusion... Simply not worth it. I hear it used to be great before Mika left to Docsa (better go to Docsa..) now it's plain outrages.