The 10 Best Restaurants Open on Shabbat in Tel Aviv (2026)

Updated October 2026 · 10 picks

Most Tel Aviv restaurants stay open on Shabbat, so the question is which are worth booking: Taizu, Mashya, Popina and Dallal all run seven days, Manta Ray and Benedict cover Saturday breakfast, and Pastel and Palette do the city's best Saturday lunch. Ten, below, with the Shabbat hours that actually differ.

1. Taizu — Menachem Begin, by Rothschild

Tel Aviv's best Asian kitchen, open every day of the week including Shabbat.

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Taizu has been the city's most serious Asian restaurant for well over a decade, cooking across what it calls the Asian spice route — Thai, Indian, Vietnamese, Chinese and Cambodian influences on one menu, built around an open kitchen and a long bar.

The food is organised by the five elements rather than by course, which in practice means you order a spread of small and medium plates and share them. The pad thai, the crab and the tandoor dishes are the ones regulars reorder, and the cocktail list is one of the stronger ones attached to a restaurant in Israel.

It runs a full seven-day week, which makes it the single most reliable high-end booking in Tel Aviv for a Friday night or a Saturday dinner.

Good to know: Friday night here books out days ahead. The bar seats are held back for walk-ins and are the best place to eat alone.

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2. Mashya — Mendeli Street Hotel, city centre

Modern Israeli cooking at the top of the city's range, seven days a week.

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Mashya sits inside the Mendeli Street Hotel a couple of blocks back from the beach, and it is one of the few Tel Aviv restaurants that can carry a proper tasting menu without losing the looseness that makes eating here enjoyable.

The cooking is modern Israeli in the real sense — Levantine ingredients and techniques pushed through a fine-dining kitchen, with a lot of fire and a lot of acidity — and it changes with the season rather than with fashion.

Being a hotel restaurant means it keeps hotel discipline about opening: it serves right through the weekend, and it does breakfast as well as dinner, which is unusual at this level.

Good to know: The tasting menu is the point here, but the à la carte on a Saturday evening is the easier booking.

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3. Popina — Ahad Ha'am, by Neve Tzedek

A chef's kitchen in a Templer building that has never taken a Saturday off.

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Popina occupies a restored building on Ahad Ha'am at the edge of Neve Tzedek, with a small dining room, a courtyard and a kitchen that is more ambitious than the room lets on. It has held a place on Israel's best-restaurant lists for years without ever becoming a scene.

The menu is short and personal, built on local produce with a bias towards fish and vegetables, and the cooking rewards ordering across it rather than sticking to one thing. The wine list leans on small Israeli producers.

It opens every day, which combined with its size makes it one of the harder tables in the city to get at the weekend — and one of the best if you do.

Good to know: Ask for the courtyard. It is the better room for a Friday night, and quieter than the inside tables.

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4. Manta Ray — Alma Beach, on the sand

The Saturday breakfast institution — mezze and fish with the sea ten metres away.

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Manta Ray sits directly on Alma Beach between the Dolphinarium and Jaffa, which gives it the best position of any restaurant in Tel Aviv: a wooden deck, the waves below it, and the Jaffa skyline at the end of the view.

The food is Mediterranean and fish-led, and the thing it is famous for is the opening parade of mezze — a dozen small dishes that arrive before you have ordered anything else. Saturday breakfast and Saturday lunch here are a Tel Aviv ritual rather than a meal.

It has run seven days a week for years, and the weekend sittings are the busiest hours in its week by a wide margin.

Good to know: Book a sunset table, or come for Saturday breakfast at opening — by eleven the deck is full and the wait is real.

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5. Dallal — Neve Tzedek

Neve Tzedek's courtyard brunch, and the prettiest Saturday table in Tel Aviv.

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Dallal is in a restored Neve Tzedek compound on the corner of Shabazi, with a planted courtyard that is the main reason to come. It has been the neighbourhood's flagship for years and has expanded into the bakery and bar next door.

The kitchen does a European bistro menu with Israeli produce under it, and the weekend brunch is the service it is built around — eggs, pastries from its own bakery, fish, and a long wine-by-the-glass list.

It is open through Shabbat, and a late Saturday brunch in the courtyard followed by the walk down Shabazi to the Suzanne Dellal square is about as good as a Tel Aviv Saturday gets.

Good to know: Saturday brunch in the courtyard needs a booking. The bakery next door sells the same pastries without the wait.

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6. Pastel — Tel Aviv Museum of Art

A grown-up brasserie inside the museum complex, open for Friday and Saturday lunch.

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Pastel sits in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art complex on Shaul HaMelech, which gives it a calm, high-ceilinged room and a terrace facing the plaza — a different kind of Tel Aviv lunch from anything on the beach.

The cooking is brasserie-classical with Israeli seasoning: a short menu, done properly, with good bread and a serious wine list. It is a favourite of the Tel Aviv lunch crowd during the week and of families at the weekend.

The weekend timetable is the useful part: it serves Friday lunch and Friday dinner, and then a long Saturday service from midday — and it takes Sunday off instead, which catches people out.

Good to know: Friday lunch runs roughly 12:00–15:30 and Saturday from 12:00 to late. It is closed on Sundays, so do not plan it as a Sunday meal.

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7. Palette — City centre

A proper bistro that opens for Saturday breakfast and then again for the whole afternoon and evening.

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Palette is a neighbourhood bistro doing the thing Tel Aviv does best: an all-day kitchen with a short, confident menu, strong coffee in the morning and a wine list that gets more interesting after dark.

Its Saturday timetable is unusually well suited to a visitor's day — an early breakfast service, a break in the late morning, and then a long run from the early afternoon through to late evening, so you can eat at almost any point of the day.

It is the sort of place locals use weekly rather than a destination, which is exactly why it is worth knowing on a Saturday when the destinations are all booked.

Good to know: Saturday breakfast is roughly 07:00–11:00, then the kitchen reopens from about 13:00 until late — a useful gap to know about.

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8. Benedict — Rothschild, Ben Yehuda and more

Breakfast around the clock — the one answer that is always open, whatever time Shabbat has reached.

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Benedict built a business on a single idea: breakfast, served 24 hours a day. There are branches on Rothschild and Ben Yehuda among others, and they do not close for Shabbat, for the night, or for much else.

The menu is breakfast in every direction — eggs Benedict in a dozen variations, shakshuka, Israeli breakfast, pancakes, and a bread basket that arrives whether you asked or not. It is not fine dining and does not aim to be.

Its real value is as the fallback: 3am after a Friday night out, or 10am on a Saturday with children and no reservation, it is open and it has a table.

Good to know: The 24-hour branches are the Rothschild and Ben Yehuda ones — check the specific branch before a middle-of-the-night visit.

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9. Yakimono — Rothschild Boulevard

The city's long-standing sushi benchmark, open seven days including Friday night.

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Yakimono has been on Rothschild for long enough to have trained much of the city's sushi workforce, and it remains the default answer when someone in Tel Aviv says they want Japanese food and does not want to gamble.

Beyond the sushi and sashimi there is a robata and tempura side to the menu that is often better than the rolls, and the room is big enough to absorb a Friday-night crowd without the wait becoming absurd.

It runs a seven-day week, and it is one of the few places of its size in the centre where you can reasonably hope to be seated at short notice on Shabbat.

Good to know: Order from the hot side of the menu as well as the sushi — the robata skewers are the sleeper here.

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10. Yaffo Tel Aviv — HaMasger, east Tel Aviv

A big, generous Israeli kitchen built for a Friday-night table of twelve.

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Yaffo Tel Aviv is a large restaurant in the less glamorous eastern half of the city, and it is the best room in Tel Aviv for a big group on Shabbat. The cooking is Israeli-Mediterranean in the generous register — mezze, fire-cooked meat and fish, bread straight from the oven.

The scale is the point: high ceilings, an open kitchen running down one side, and enough tables that a party of ten on a Friday night is a normal request rather than a problem.

It is a short taxi ride from the centre, which on Shabbat is a feature — the area empties at the weekend and parking, for once, is straightforward.

Good to know: The best value here is the set menu for groups. Ask what is on the fire that night before you order mains.

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Frequently asked questions

Are restaurants open on Shabbat in Tel Aviv?

Yes — the great majority are, which is the main practical difference between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Friday night and Saturday are among the busiest sittings of the week here. The exceptions are the kosher-certified restaurants, most of them inside hotels, which close from Friday afternoon until Saturday night.

What does close on Shabbat in Tel Aviv?

Kosher restaurants, most hotel kosher dining rooms, the Carmel Market stalls from Friday afternoon, and a scattering of restaurants that simply take Saturday off — Dok is the best-known example. Buses do not run and the Carmel and Levinsky markets are shut on Saturday, but the beaches, the promenade and the port complexes all operate normally.

Which Tel Aviv restaurants are open seven days a week?

Taizu, Mashya, Popina, Dallal, Manta Ray and Yakimono have all run a seven-day week in recent years, and Benedict trades around the clock. Hours still shift seasonally, so confirm the specific sitting you want rather than assuming — a kitchen that is open on Saturday evening is not necessarily open for Saturday lunch.

Do you need to book for Friday night in Tel Aviv?

Yes, and earlier than you would for a weekday. Friday dinner is the city's social peak, and the better rooms are gone several days out, particularly in summer and over festivals. Saturday lunch is slightly easier, and Saturday breakfast at the beachfront places is first-come in practice even where bookings are taken.

Can you get around Tel Aviv on Shabbat?

Taxis and the ride apps work normally, the city's free Shabbat bus lines run on several routes, and a bike or scooter covers most of the distances on this list in under fifteen minutes. The light rail and the regular bus network do not run from Friday afternoon until Saturday night.

Where do Tel Avivians actually eat on Saturday?

Breakfast on the beach or in a neighbourhood cafe, which runs late and long; then a slow lunch somewhere with a courtyard. The genuinely local habit is a Saturday brunch that starts at eleven and finishes at four, which is why the places on this list with outdoor seating fill first and stay full.

1. Taizu — Menachem Begin, by Rothschild

2. Mashya — Mendeli Street Hotel, city centre

3. Popina — Ahad Ha'am, by Neve Tzedek

4. Manta Ray — Alma Beach, on the sand

5. Dallal — Neve Tzedek

6. Pastel — Tel Aviv Museum of Art

7. Palette — City centre

8. Benedict — Rothschild, Ben Yehuda and more

9. Yakimono — Rothschild Boulevard

10. Yaffo Tel Aviv — HaMasger, east Tel Aviv

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