A Summary of the Best Kosher Restaurants in Tel Aviv & Herzliya.

Looking for the best kosher restaurants in Tel Aviv and Herzliya? This guide brings together my personal favorites and other places worth knowing about, from special-occasion hotel restaurants to dairy Italian kitchens, sushi bars, and lively spots for dinner with friends. For the restaurants I have visited, I share what I enjoyed eating and what to expect, along with locations, useful links, and kosher information.

Last updated: October 2026

If you are looking for some additional recommendations, these posts should help:

• Jerusalem Top Kosher Restaurants

• Top  Kosher Private Dining in Tel Aviv

Here is my list of must-try kosher restaurants in Tel Aviv & Herzliya:

• Darya, Hilton Tel Aviv

Darya restaurant is described as serving modern Silk Road cuisine, a fusion of Far Eastern and Mediterranean flavors. The menu features creative, exciting flavor combinations. I have eaten at Darya several times, both in the main restaurant and in the private dining room. It is one of the best kosher restaurants I have been to, and the staff was knowledgeable and attentive.

Darya, Hilton Tel Aviv

• Dvora

Dvora is Chef Eyal Shani‘s second kosher restaurant, located off the Debrah Brown Hotel lobby. The menu is similar to Malka’s, with many of Shani’s signature dishes, such as the Bag of Green Beans and Lima Beans, but it also includes some new dishes unique to Dvora.

Dvora, Debrah Brown Hotel, 87 Ben Yehuda, Tel Aviv   

• Katzir

Katzir is a meat restaurant overlooking the sea at The David Kempinski Tel Aviv, led by British-Israeli chef Daniel Raymond. I have enjoyed several excellent meals here, with a changing seasonal menu that draws on the chef’s British upbringing and diverse family roots. Standout dishes across my visits have included the tongue, sea bass with homemade pasta, and chicken and chips. On my latest visit, we shared foie gras pâté with fig jam, beef fillet with forest mushrooms and foie gras butter, corned beef, fried chicken, and skirt steak with mash, finishing with chocolate mousse and guava sorbet. Learn more in my interview with him and an Instagram reel from an earlier visit.

Katzir, The David Kempinski Tel Aviv, 51 HaYarkon Street, Tel Aviv

• Malka 

Malka by Chef Eyal Shani shares the same rustic style as his other restaurants. Shani excels at making vegetables the hero of the dish, with starters including A Bag of Green Beans, Zucchini Baby Lollies, and Lima Beans. The main courses are elevated street-food dishes like Schnitzel filled with mashed potatoes and Minute Steak on a bed of tahina. Most of the food is designed for sharing and served on brown paper.

Malka, 146 Derech Menachem Begin, Tel Aviv

• Manara

Manara, in the Sheraton Tel Aviv overlooking the sea, is a kosher dairy and fish restaurant serving Levantine-inspired food. I was recently (October 2026)  invited to try the new menu, which ranges from sushi and sashimi to pasta, fish dishes, and sharing plates. My highlights were the herb salad with smoked freekeh and two excellent wild sea bass dishes. The sea bass chitarra with cacio e pepe sauce was my favorite and the most interesting dish of the evening, although the sea bass with pastis butter was also delicious.

Manara,  Sheraton Tel Aviv, 115 HaYarkon Street, Tel Aviv

• Minato, Herzliya Pituach

Possibly one of Israel’s best sushi restaurants, Minato uses high-quality ingredients and precise preparation to set it apart from most other sushi places. The menu includes delicious dishes such as Agedashi Tofu, Katsu Chicken, and Minato Yakiniku (entrecôte with a mild mirin sauce).

The restaurant’s design and dishes are beautiful and add to the dining experience. The only downside is that the restaurant is small, so space is limited.

Minato, 8 Ha’menofim Street, Herzliya Pituach

• Ola Ola

Ola Ola is a dairy-and-fish restaurant beside Shuk HaCarmel, with a more formal, French-style atmosphere than its market location suggests. I have only eaten there once, but we enjoyed the crispy feta and musar yam tartare with herbs, sumac, and labaneh starters. For the main course, the fish with broccoli and truffle purée was perfectly cooked, though the purée could have been smoother. Dessert was a highlight: a rich bread pudding with chocolate sauce and, to my delight, pistachio ice cream. A lovely option for a leisurely dairy dinner near the shuk. More about my meal and photos on Instagram.

Ola Ola, 3 Yehya Kapah Street, Tel Aviv

• Sushi Bar Bazel

I have eaten at the restaurant and ordered take-away a few times. The sushi was delicious, and I also liked the avocado tempura, fish cigars with a spicy dip, and Asian tofu salad with a delightful dressing. The original restaurant on Bazel wasn’t kosher, but then it became kosher when it opened in the Prima Tel Aviv Hotel, before moving to Bograshov Street.

Sushi Bar Bazel, 33 Bograshov Street, Tel Aviv

• Whiskey Bar & Museum

I considered leaving Whiskey Bar & Museum (Tzohar) off this list, as I have had mixed experiences; however, the food is usually good overall. The service is temperamental, but the setting is special, so I think it earns its place on this list.

Whiskey Bar & Museum, Sarona Complex

Other popular and new kosher restaurants in Tel Aviv:

• Asimi is a dairy and fish restaurant overlooking the beach.
• Backyard 51 is a meat restaurant in a secluded courtyard behind Fifty & One, at 51 Nahalat Binyamin Street. The menu combines Italian cooking with Japanese touches, alongside cocktails and wine.
• Bazir (Badatz Kehilot) is a brasserie by Chef Israel Dudek and HaGoren, located in the BSR Tower in Bnei Barak.
• Bella Osteria is an Italian dairy restaurant on Einstein Street in Ramat Aviv, by celebrity chef Aviv Moshe.
• Brasserie 18 is a French dairy brasserie on Levontin Street, serving continental breakfast, fish, pasta and seasonal vegetable dishes. The European-inspired menu moves from brunch and lunch to dinner with wine.
• Fifty & One is a dairy Italian restaurant at 51 Nahalat Binyamin Street. Led by Chef Ofek Gilad, the menu focuses on pasta, fish, and seasonal dishes, alongside cocktails and wine.
• Japón is a Japanese restaurant in The Setai Tel Aviv, on a terrace overlooking the sea. It is the sister restaurant to Japon in The Setai Miami.
• Jewel Cocktail Bar is a bar and dairy restaurant in the lobby of the Jewel Hotel, near the beach, owned by Rami Levy’s daughter.

• MerYam is Chef Haim Cohen’s kosher dairy and fish restaurant in the LYFE Towers in Bnei Brak. The restaurant serves fresh fish, seasonal vegetables, and pasta, with an open kitchen and an adjoining patisserie.
• Nobo (Badatz Beit Yosef) is an Asian restaurant in Herzliya Pituach. The menu includes sushi, meat-and-tofu noodles, and rice dishes.
• Onami is a Japanese restaurant in the Hilton Hotel Tel Aviv; don’t confuse it with the non-kosher branch on HaAraba’a Street.
• Passador is a South American meat restaurant serving a fixed-price 10-course set menu.
• Poupee is a bar and restaurant that turns into a club later at night.
• Qumran is a restaurant-club hybrid.
• Rashel (Mehadrin) is a Moroccan-themed lounge bar and restaurant in Namal Tel Aviv.
• Regina (Mehadrin) is a meat restaurant in Tel Aviv’s Old Train Station complex. It has a large outdoor seating area and is popular with the Haredi community.
• Rova Alef is a dairy-and-fish restaurant in the Elkonin Hotel, by Chef Evyatar Malka, chef of Winona Forever. Signature dishes include fish Hamusta, fish tacos, lima beans cacio e pepe, and burnt eggplant shish barak.
• Salon Yevani is a Greek dairy restaurant with branches in The Daniel Hotel, Herzliya Pituach, and near Savion Junction in Or Yehuda, combining dinner with Greek music and entertainment (video review).
• Simo is a grilled meat restaurant on the Tel Aviv beach promenade.
• Sunset Kitchen is a dairy and fish restaurant in the Daniel Herzliya Hotel.

• Zvulun is a Mediterranean fish restaurant in Herzliya Pituach by Chef Aviv Moshe. The menu includes the chef’s popular couscous with fish stew, truffle butter candle with sourdough, zucchini flowers, egg-yolk cacio e pepe, and other raw and cooked fish dishes.

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