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The 9 Best Smoothie Bowls and Brunch Spots in Israel (2026)

Updated August 2026 · 9 picks

The best smoothie bowls in Israel are on the Tel Aviv beachfront and in Florentin, where açaí and pitaya bowls have become a standard breakfast rather than a health-food novelty. For brunch proper, the Israeli breakfast — eggs, salads, cheeses and bread — is the national format, and Tel Aviv and Jerusalem both do it well. Nine, below.

1. The Tel Aviv beachfront bowl counters — Gordon to Hilton promenade, Tel Aviv

Açaí and pitaya bowls between Gordon and Hilton, eaten with sand on your feet.

₪₪ Mid-range

The stretch of promenade between Gordon and Hilton beaches has the densest concentration of smoothie-bowl counters in the country, driven by the surf and morning-swim crowd who come off the water wanting exactly this.

The format is consistent: a thick açaí or pitaya base, granola, banana, strawberry, coconut, and a choice of nut butters or protein. The good ones freeze the base rather than blending it soft, so it holds up in the heat.

It is the most Tel Aviv breakfast there is — order, walk twenty metres, sit on the sea wall.

Good to know: Ask for the base thick and no added juice — otherwise it turns to soup in ten minutes in summer.

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2. Anastasia — Frishman Street, Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv's best-known vegan café, and the bowl that made smoothie bowls mainstream here.

₪₪ Mid-range

Anastasia is a fully vegan café on Frishman that has been a fixture of the Tel Aviv health-food scene for years, and its bowls are the benchmark other places are measured against.

The kitchen goes further than the standard açaí formula — bases built on other fruits and greens, house granola, and a much longer list of toppings than a beach counter carries — and the rest of the menu is a full vegan brunch.

It is busy at weekends and small, so weekday mornings are the civilised time to go.

Good to know: The full vegan brunch plate is the better order if you are hungry — the bowl is a snack.

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3. Benedict — Rothschild and Ben Yehuda, Tel Aviv, plus branches nationwide

Breakfast served 24 hours, in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and Herzliya.

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Benedict built a small chain out of one idea — breakfast, all day and all night — and it has become the default answer when someone in Israel says the word brunch.

The menu runs from eggs Benedict through shakshuka to a full Israeli breakfast, the bread basket is genuinely good, and the branches are large enough to absorb a Friday morning crowd.

It is not the most interesting food in the city, and that is rather the point: it is reliable at 11am on a Friday when nowhere else has a table.

Good to know: The 24-hour branches are a genuine answer to jet lag — a full breakfast at 4am is normal here.

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4. Café Yehoshua — Old North, Tel Aviv

The Tel Aviv neighbourhood café at its best — a shaded corner and a proper Israeli breakfast.

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Café Yehoshua sits on a corner in the old north of Tel Aviv and does the thing this city's cafés do better than anywhere: an unhurried Israeli breakfast under trees, with good coffee and no sense that the table is needed back.

The breakfast plates are generous and the salads are made properly rather than assembled, and the bread comes from a decent bakery.

It is a neighbourhood place first, which means Friday mornings are competitive and weekdays are relaxed.

Good to know: Outside tables under the trees are the reason to come — worth waiting ten minutes for one.

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5. The Florentin juice bars — Florentin, Tel Aviv

Cheaper bowls and cold-pressed juice in Tel Aviv's most stubbornly un-touristy quarter.

₪₪ Mid-range

Florentin's juice bars and vegan counters make the same bowls as the beachfront for noticeably less money, because the customers are locals on their way to work rather than tourists off the sand.

The neighbourhood's vegan density means the toppings are more interesting — tahini, date syrup, halva crumbs and local fruit turn up alongside the usual granola.

Combine it with a walk around the workshops and street art, which is the real reason to be in Florentin in the morning.

Good to know: Tahini and date syrup instead of the standard nut butter — it is the local version and it is better.

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6. Tmol Shilshom, Jerusalem — Nachalat Shiva, Jerusalem

A bookshop café in a 19th-century courtyard, and Jerusalem's best long breakfast.

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Tmol Shilshom occupies an old stone building off Yoel Salomon in the city centre, up a courtyard staircase, and it has been a writers' café for decades — Amos Oz read here, and the shelves are the real thing.

The breakfast is dairy, generous and unhurried, and the room is the antidote to Jerusalem's harder edges. It is one of very few places in the city that genuinely encourages you to sit for two hours.

It is kosher and dairy, and it closes for Shabbat.

Good to know: Go on a weekday afternoon and use it as a place to read — that is what it is for.

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7. The Machane Yehuda breakfast counters — Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem

Coffee, bourekas and a plate of salads eaten standing up in the Jerusalem shuk.

₪₪ Mid-range

Breakfast in Machane Yehuda is not a sit-down brunch — it is a bureka from one of the bakeries, a coffee from a stall and a bag of fruit from a stand you pass on the way through.

Several of the market's cafés do a proper plated breakfast as well, and the shakshuka in the covered lanes is a serious version of the dish rather than the tourist one.

It is at its best on a Thursday or Friday morning, when the market is loudest and everyone in the city is shopping for Shabbat.

Good to know: Eat the bureka where you buy it — they are made to be eaten within ten minutes of the oven.

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8. The Haifa German Colony cafés — German Colony, Haifa

Ben Gurion Avenue below the Baha'i Gardens — the best brunch strip in the north.

₪₪ Mid-range

Ben Gurion Avenue runs straight down from the Baha'i Gardens to the port, lined with restored Templer houses that are now mostly cafés and restaurants with pavement tables.

The brunch here is the Israeli breakfast with an Arab-Israeli accent — more labneh, za'atar, fuul and fresh bread than the Tel Aviv version, and generally cheaper.

Haifa is a mixed city, so unlike Jerusalem almost everything here is open on Saturday, which makes it the best Shabbat brunch city in the country.

Good to know: Sit facing up the avenue — the gardens climbing the mountain are the view you came for.

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9. Meshek Barzilay — Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv

Neve Tzedek's vegan kitchen, with a farm behind it and the most careful bowls in Tel Aviv.

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Meshek Barzilay grows a good deal of what it serves on its own organic farm, and that shows up most obviously in the fruit on the bowls and the vegetables on the brunch plates.

It is a full restaurant rather than a counter, so the smoothie bowls sit alongside a proper vegan brunch menu, and the garden courtyard in Neve Tzedek is one of the pleasanter places to eat in the city.

It is more expensive than a beach counter and worth it if you want to sit down for an hour.

Good to know: Book the courtyard for Friday morning — the inside room is much less pleasant.

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Frequently asked questions

Where can you get the best smoothie bowl in Israel?

Tel Aviv, and specifically the beachfront strip between Gordon and Hilton beaches, Florentin and the Shuk HaCarmel area. Açaí and pitaya bowls are ubiquitous there — most juice bars, surf cafés and vegan spots make them, and quality is high because competition is fierce. Outside Tel Aviv you will find them in Eilat and Herzliya, and only sporadically elsewhere.

How much does a smoothie bowl cost in Israel?

Around ₪38–₪55 for a standard açaí or pitaya bowl in Tel Aviv, more if you add extra toppings, protein powder or nut butters. It is not a cheap breakfast by Israeli standards — a full Israeli breakfast at a neighbourhood café is often only slightly more.

What is an Israeli breakfast?

Two eggs cooked how you like, a chopped Israeli salad, a spread of cheeses, labneh, olives, tahini and jam, fresh bread or a bourekas, a juice and a coffee — served on a table's worth of small plates. It is the standard brunch order in Israel, and most cafés serve it all day.

Is brunch in Israel a weekend thing?

Friday is the big brunch day, not Sunday — Friday is the start of the Israeli weekend, and cafés are full from about 9am until they close in the early afternoon for Shabbat. Saturday brunch happens in Tel Aviv and Haifa but barely exists in Jerusalem. If you want a quiet table, go on a weekday.

Are smoothie bowls in Israel vegan?

Usually yes by default — açaí and pitaya bases are blended with fruit and often oat, almond or coconut milk, and the standard toppings are granola, banana, coconut and nut butter. Honey and yoghurt-based bowls are the exceptions to ask about. Tel Aviv is one of the most vegan-friendly cities in the world, so staff are used to the question.

Do you need to book brunch in Israel?

For Friday morning at a well-known Tel Aviv café, yes, or go before 9am. Benedict and the busier Rothschild and Neve Tzedek places fill by mid-morning and run waits of half an hour or more. Juice bars and bowl counters are walk-in everywhere.

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