List of restaurants in Israel

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 vegans, Israel has many vegan restaurants.[3] Israel's main American fast food chains include: McDonald's, Burger King, Domino's Pizza, Pizza Hut, Papa John's Pizza, The Cheesecake Factory and KFC (opens its first location in Israel in March 2019).

Israeli breakfast served at Café Café

Restaurant chains

Israeli chains

Max Brenner chocolate bar in Herzliya

Kosher McDonald's in Ashkelon

• Aroma Espresso Bar – espresso and coffee chain with 125 branches in Israel[4] and branches in the United States,[5] Canada,[6] Kazakhstan, Romania, and Ukraine.[7]
• Café Café – international Israeli coffee chain with about 150 locations
• Cofix – Israeli coffee house chain selling most items for NIS 5 with locations dispersed over Israel and Russia
• Max Brenner – Israeli chocolate shop and restaurant[8] with 36 branches in Australia, Israel, Japan, Russia, and the US

International chains

• Burger King – operating 11 locations as of 2020.[9]
• Domino's Pizza – operating 57 locations around Israel until 2007[10] out of 16,000 worldwide
• KFC – operating 2 locations as of 2020 with plans to open a third location.
• McDonald's – had 180 locations, closed on 7 August 2003[11] out of about 38,000 locations worldwide
• Papa John's Pizza – operating 4 locations as of 2020.[12] out of about 5,000 locations worldwide
• Pizza Hut – operating 90 locations as of 2020.
• The Cheesecake Factory – operating 8 mall kiosks as of 2020.[13] out of 210 locations worldwide

National chains

Burger Ranch in Ashdod

• Arcaffe – is a chain of cafes in Israel with 29 outlets across the country
• Big Apple Pizza – New York City-style pizza chain with 11 locations around Israel[14]
• Black Bar 'n' Burger – burger chain with 14 locations across Israel[15]
• Burgeranch – fast-food chain with 107 restaurants and over 1500 employees in 2010[16]
• Burgers Bar – sit-down, American-style bar restaurant with 30 locations across Israel[17]
• Café Hillel – cafe, espresso bar, and sandwich bar chain[18]
• HaShamen – Shawarma chain with 11 locations around Israel, of which 3 in Jerusalem[19]
• Holy Bagel – bagel store chain with 11 locations around Israel[20]
• Mike's Place – American-style bar with six locations around Israel[21]
• Papagaio – churrascaria-style restaurant with three locations around Israel[22]
• Roladin – largest bakery chain in Israel, with 43 locations around Israel[23]

Regional and local

• Abu Hassan – Hummus restaurant with 3 locations in Jaffa
• Café Rimon – chain with three locations in Jerusalem and one in Beit Shemesh[24]

Former American and international chains operating

• Dunkin' Donuts – operates 9 branches in israel.[25]
• Sbarro – entered Israel in 1995 and has 25 branches at the height of its success
• Starbucks – has 6 locations in the greater Tel Aviv region.[26]
• Subway – has 23 locations around Israel.[27]
• Wendy's – Operated from 1987, has 17 stores[28][29][30][31]
• Wimpy – entered in the 1960s, has 56 stores.[32][33][34]

Restaurants

Penguin, Nahariya in the 1950s

Haifa & North

• Falafel HaZkenim, Haifa – one of Israel's best falafel restaurants. Briefly had a branch.
• MacDavid – started as one hamburger restaurant in Tel Aviv, grew to 28 branches nationwide, now one restaurant in Haifa.
• Penguin – family restaurant since 1940 in Nahariya
• Yonk – Romanian grill since 1948 in Haifa

Tel Aviv & Center

• Spaghettim – Italian cuisine in Petach Tikva. Was a chain with 17 restaurants nationwide in 2010.[35]
• Pastel – fine dining at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• Blue Sky by Meir Adoni – fine dining at the Carlton Tel Aviv
• Lumina by Meir Adoni – fine dining at the Carlton Tel Aviv
• Mashya – Fine dining in Tel Aviv

Jerusalem & South

Barood, Jerusalem

• Anna Italian Café – located in the Ticho House, a historic home in Jerusalem that is a branch of the Israel Museum.
• Barood – bar-restaurant in Jerusalem serving Sephardic cuisine
• The Eucalyptus – kosher meat restaurant in Jerusalem
• La Régence – Fine dining at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem
• Sami VeSusu – Romanian cuisine restaurant at the municipal market of Beersheba

Former

• Mul Yam – restaurant located in Tel Aviv Port, founded in 1995; burned down in 2015
• Nizahon Restaurant – Romanian grill in Ashkelon, founded in 1949, closed in 2019

See also

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

References

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34. "???". Otot [Signal] (in Hebrew). Israel Association of Advertisers (209–214): 55. 1998. ״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.״
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