The best kosher restaurants in Eilat in 2026 are Ranch House on the Royal Boardwalk for steak, Pastory for Italian, and Wang's Grill for Asian. Eilat is the easiest city in Israel to eat kosher in — most of the hotels and the restaurants attached to them are certified, so the question is rarely whether a place is kosher but which is worth the money. Six picks below.
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1. Ranch House — Royal Boardwalk, beside the Royal Beach hotel
Nebraska beef, specially aged, on a seafront terrace — Eilat's steak institution.
₪₪₪₪SplurgeKashrut Kosher; confirm the current certificate in the restaurant
Ranch House sits on the Royal Boardwalk next to the Royal Beach hotel and has been a pillar of premium Eilat dining for years. It is a meat and grill restaurant, and the sourcing is the story: every premium cut is imported directly from Nebraska and put through a specific ageing process to soften the texture and deepen the flavour.
That matters more in a kosher kitchen than a non-kosher one. Koshering firms the meat, so the restaurants that succeed at the top end are the ones controlling the animal and the ageing rather than the seasoning.
The menu runs from beef rib bones of 400 to 1,500 grams down through lamb chops, a chili burger and fried chicken wings with honey. The seafront terrace is what makes it a special-occasion restaurant rather than just a good steakhouse.
Good to know: The large rib bones are meant for sharing — order one for the table rather than one each.
The Italian option — handmade pasta and a Tuscan room, indoors or on the patio.
₪₪₪UpmarketKashrut Kosher; confirm the current certificate in the restaurant
Pastory is the Italian restaurant Eilat sends people to, and it works hard at the register: handmade pasta, classic dishes, and a room that aims at Tuscany rather than at a resort strip.
There is a cosy indoor dining area and an outdoor patio, which in Eilat is a real decision rather than a preference — the patio is a pleasure for eight months of the year and unusable in the middle of summer.
For a table that has had enough grilled meat, or for a couple wanting something that is not a hotel dining room, it is the most reliable change of direction in the city.
Good to know: Book the patio outside July and August; inside the rest of the time.
Kosher Asian at the Royal Beach — the city's most interesting hotel kitchen.
₪₪₪₪SplurgeKashrut Kosher; confirm the current certificate at the hotel
Wang's Grill sits inside the Royal Beach and is Eilat's kosher Asian restaurant, which fills a real gap: Asian cooking leans hard on ingredients and combinations that kosher kitchens have to work around, so doing it well takes more effort than a grill does.
It belongs to the group of expensive hotel restaurants — alongside Chicago at the Hilton and Ranch House on the boardwalk — that between them make up the top tier of Eilat dining.
It is a good second night: you have had the steak, the table wants something different, and nobody wants to leave the hotel strip.
Good to know: Hotel restaurants in Eilat fill with residents first — book before you arrive, not on the day.
The Hilton's grill room — the other top-end hotel option.
₪₪₪₪SplurgeKashrut Kosher; confirm the current certificate at the hotel
Chicago is the grill restaurant at the Hilton and sits in the same bracket as Ranch House and Wang's Grill: expensive, hotel-based, and aimed squarely at guests who want a proper dinner without leaving the resort.
Hotel restaurants in Eilat are a different proposition from hotel restaurants elsewhere in Israel. Because the city runs on domestic tourism, they are held to the standard of people who eat out at home rather than of a captive audience.
Choose it if you are staying at the Hilton or nearby on the North Beach; otherwise the boardwalk options are easier to reach.
Good to know: North Beach hotel restaurants are walkable from each other — compare menus on the way past.
Grill dining over the marina, at the quieter end of the top tier.
₪₪₪₪SplurgeKashrut Kosher; confirm the current certificate at the hotel
Marina Grill belongs to the King Solomon and looks over the Eilat marina, which is a gentler setting than the North Beach strip — masts and water rather than promenade crowds.
It is a grill restaurant in the Israeli hotel tradition: broad menu, competent kitchen, and priced with the rest of the top tier.
It suits an evening where the point is a long, unhurried dinner with a view rather than a particular dish.
Good to know: Ask for a table on the marina side — the view is the difference between this and any hotel grill.
Family-oriented skewers at a fraction of the hotel prices.
₪₪Mid-rangeKashrut Kosher; confirm the current certificate in the restaurant
Shipudei HaBustan is one of the family-oriented grill houses near the Dan hotel, and it represents the half of Eilat dining that visitors often miss because they never leave the hotel restaurant.
The cooking is skewers and grilled meat done plainly and generously, with the salatim that come with it. It is the sort of place a family of five can eat at without the bill becoming a topic of conversation.
Alongside Platinum Grill it is where to go on the nights when the top-tier prices stop making sense — which, on a week-long holiday, is most of them.
Good to know: The mid-range grills fill with families from about 7pm — go early or expect to wait.
Very. Eilat is built around domestic Israeli tourism, a large share of it religious, so most hotels and the restaurants attached to them hold kashrut certification. Unlike Tel Aviv or Haifa, the default assumption in Eilat is that a hotel restaurant is kosher — though you should still check the teudah.
What is the best kosher restaurant in Eilat?
Ranch House on the Royal Boardwalk is the long-standing answer for meat — premium cuts imported from Nebraska and specially aged, served on a seafront terrace. Pastory is the best-regarded Italian, and Wang's Grill the Asian option at the Royal Beach.
Are the kosher restaurants in Eilat expensive?
The hotel restaurants are — Chicago at the Hilton, Ranch House and Wang's Grill at the Royal Beach, Marina Grill at the King Solomon all sit at the top of the local market. The family-oriented grills like Platinum Grill and Shipudei HaBustan are considerably cheaper and are where locals actually eat.
Can you eat dairy kosher food in Eilat?
Yes. Pastory is the best-known kosher Italian option, and the city's tourist board maintains a list of certified dairy restaurants and coffee shops. Most of the high-profile hotel restaurants are meat, so dairy takes slightly more planning.
Do Eilat restaurants open on Shabbat?
Kosher ones close, and in Eilat that is most of the notable restaurants. Hotels serve their guests through Shabbat on a pre-prepared basis. Eilat has a small number of non-certified places that stay open, so if you keep kosher, plan Friday night and Saturday around your hotel.
How do I check an Eilat restaurant's kashrut?
Kashrut certification in Israel is renewed annually and restaurants do change hands. Look for the current teudah on the wall before you order, and check the date on it — an expired certificate is the single most common problem, not an absent one.