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                 Ben Yehuda street from South to North  
                      From Allenby to Yermiahu street

Places of Interest on Ben Yehuda Street and places worth deviating
for

    The Opera Tower shopping and entertainment center
    with a beautiful water fountain in front
    The beaches
    Gordon Street for the many art galleries
    Tel Aviv Marina where you can park your yacht..
    Allenby Street the busy downtown street

A choice of special shops in Ben Yehuda Area
     Bibliophile
    87 Allenby St.Tel 03 6299710
    A good and inexpensive place to buy a used book in several languages. If you
    buy in quantity like you also may get an extra discount between 5-15%.  Great
    place to buy some reading stuff for the holidays.

    Blue Shop
    68 Ben Yehuda Street Tel: 03 5224521
    A little shop that stands out because of its beautiful arched designed entrance
    and also the collection of jewellery that is chic and not pricey

    Gaya - The art of Thinking
    56 Hayarkon Street (near the Opera Tower) Tel:  03 5170055
    Gaya offers a wide range of unique challenging thinking games for all ages.

    For Play
    2 Mapo Street (Corner 112 Hayarkon street) Tel: 972 3 5277764
    If you did not find the toys you like in Gaya you can try a little further on Hayarkon
    Street and find some other kind of games.A sex toy shop that looks nice and
    friendly and not a dark sinner place. It sells a variety of sex accessories and as it
    is located right in the hotel area ,you can just pop in buy some new exciting toy
    and go back to bed :-))

    Haio Haia  (Once Upon a Time)
    72 Ben Yehuda Street (Frishman Corner)Tel: 03 5276614
    A second hand shop where you can find everything you want or don't want...
    Vintage clothes,  lace embroidered blouses, fur coats, old dolls, books, jewelery,
    porcelain dishes and much more.

    High Line
    15 Frishman Street (on Ben Yehuda Corner) Tel 972 3 5241602
    A nice shop that seems to be there for ever  where you can find beautiful Israeli
    art crafts and hand made decorations and religious objects with style. If you need
    some special present or souvenir you should check this beautiful shop

    The Bible Society Shop
    81 Ben Yehuda Street Tel:03 5245283
    A shop dedicated to the holy book ... Andy Ball the owner of the shop claims that
    he has Bibles in 50 languages and more. Interesting and unique shop.

    Robert's  
    84 Ben Yehuda Street Tel:03 5236461
    A shop dedicated to antique prints and lithographies. Old maps of the Holy land
    drawings that look like bible illustration. Interesting to visit.

    Raphael's
    95 Ben Yehuda Street Tel 972 3 5273619
    Jewelry, gifts and Judaica handmade shop. s a variety of beautiful objects all hand
    made by various artists. Definitely worth a visit.

    Aida
    22 Gordon Street (Ben Yehuda Corner) Tel: 03 5270156
    A little shop that offers beautiful and original hand made jewels. The lady in the
    shop, Aida is the owner of the shop and the artist that creates the jewels.

    Landsberger book shop
    116 Ben Yehuda street Tel  03-5271395
    One of the first bookshops in Tel-Aviv - started in 1930 sells  English and Hebrew
    books new and second hand on different subjects especially philosophy.

    Touch Wood Derzy's Gallery
    198 Ben Yehuda Street (on Jabotinsky corner) Tel:03 5468668
    Gallery and frames with a personal touch. Artistic frames and a lot of beautiful
    decorative posters and original paintings.  

A choice of cafés and restaurants in Ben Yehuda Area
    Stefan Brown
    99 Allenby  Street Tel: 03-5604725
    The restaurant is located in  an old building on noisy Allenby Street in what used
    to be an old exclusive furs shop. It has a lovely Italian style garden and a great
    ambiance in the evening. The menu is middle eastern and Moroccan style.

             5 Maze Street Tel: 03-5252565
    Bistro style restaurant with nice food and great launch deals. Located on Maze
    street not far from Alenby corner.

    Picolla Pasta
    62 Ben Yehuda street Tel: 6203257
    Little unpretentious restaurant serves a lovely lasagna and very good fresh pasta
    - a nice place to eat when you don't want to go to far away from your room or from
    the beach

    McDonald's  
    88 Herbert Samuel boardwalk and others Tel 03-5758704
    The McDonald's in Israel are  very good value
    and serve also nice salads and other Israeli specials.
    They are trying very hard to change the image from junk food to healthy food.  

    KFC
    88 Herbert Samuel boardwalk Tel 1-700 5060 70
    Lovely for a meal in your hotel room eating all this chicken with your hands with no
    worries. A real treat I do it sometime  and we love it.

    Cafe Mezada
    83 Hayarkon Street Tel: 03-5103353
    A café restaurant that is located on the promenade where you can sit and look at
    the sea and enjoy the sunset or sea breeze   A variety of dishes Chicken wings,
    pate, burger and deserts. The food is good and the service is remarkable


    Raphael
    87 Hayarkon Street near Dan Hotel Tel: 03-5226464
    French style restaurant, Raphael is considered one of the best restaurants in the
    city – and it is indeed very pretentious and a great culinary experience

    White Hall
    6 Mendele Street Tel: 03-5249282
    An old establishment located not far from the Yarkon Street hotels area
    serves good steaks in a nice and elegant but relaxed atmosphere

    Cafe Mersand
    70 Ben Yehuda Frishman Corner Tel: 03-5234318
    Café Mersand  is an old legendary café that still maintains the same oldtimes
    atmosphere and furniture but has improved the coffee, good home made cakes,
    breakfast and sandwiches.   Venue for musical evenings, live shows and DJ's.

      Tamara Yogurt
    96 Ben Yehuda Street (Gordon Cornerr)     Tel: 03-5234449
    New competition in the yummy ice cream area - ice cream made of yogurt and
    fresh fruits

    Iceberg
    108 Ben Yehuda near Gordon Street  tel: 03-5225025
    A cafe parlour that specialises in ice cream French style flavors - one of the best
    ice creams in town.
      
             Gelateria ALDO Dolce Melodia
    122 Ben Yehuda street
    The Best ice cream in town. ..delicious genuine italian homemade ice cream in a
    wide variety of tastes and colors.
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    Osteria de la Fiorela  
    148 Ben Yehuda Street Tel: 03-5248818
    Italian genuine restaurant servers traditional Italian food. It is owned by an Italian
    family who opened it almost 20 years ago and bring the taste of Rome to Tel Aviv.
    Nice ambiance and friendly service

    Barbunia
    163 Ben Yehuda Street Tel: 03-5276965
    Simple fish restaurant serves a formula style meal of fresh fish grilled or fried and
    salads for fix menu

    Barbunia the Bar
    192 Ben Yehuda
    On the opposite side of Ben Yehuda a small bar style restaurant serves very nice
    fresh fish until the late hours.

    Benedict
    171 Ben Yehuda street Tel: 03-5440345
    Located on Jabotinsky corner Benedich is a concept cafe that serves only
    breakfast 24 hours a day in all styles.

    Pizza Fino
    169 Ben Yehuda Street on Jabotinsky corner Tel: 03-5228165
    An old establishment that specialises in pizza and special pizza pies. I tried it
    several times and it was very good.

    Falafel Shlomo & Sons
    On Nordau Blvd. Ben Yehuda corner
    A kiosk that makes fresh falafel made on the spot. Simple and good.
    I ate there many times and enjoyed it.

    Idelson 10
    252 Ben Yehuda (Yermiahu corner) Tel:03-5444154
    Coffee house and bakery that serves delicious home made like cakes and
    pastries.  

    Schopack
    256 Ben Yehuda Tel: 03-5441973
    Another casual fish restaurant that serves  formula: you order the fish fried of
    grilled and they fill the table with salads "on the house" - simple and nice food

A choice of bars, pubs and clubs in Ben Yehuda Area

    Haminzar (the Covent)
    60 Alenby Street Tel: 03-5173015
    Neighborhood Bar with mixed crowd and low prices and a kind of easy lay back
    atmosphere opened also in the daytime

    Beit Habira
    46 Allenby Street Tel: 03-5165844
    A small pub that is hidden away in the Alenby hussle serving traditional jewish
    food a side of a wide range of the most famous beers from all over the world.

    Mike's Place
    86 Herbert Samuel boardwalk
    A popular pub near the American Embassy with a terrace - live music in some
    evenings blues or country and TV screens for sport games

    Gordon Inn
    17 Gordon Street
    Tel: 03-5238239
    A little pub on second floor - tourists and regulars - relaxed atmosphere

    Molly Bloom
    32 Mendele Street
    Tel: 03-5221558
    The first Tel Aviv Irish pub - all the interior and exterior design are imported from
    Ireland and look genuine - serves Irish traditional dishes  and Irish beer such as
    Guinness and Kilkenny


    Hakirkara (Stagecoach Pub)
    216 Hayarkon Street (opposite to Hilton Hotel)
    Tel: 03: 5243277
    The pub is very lively on weekends Thursday and Friday evenings live Israeli and
    Mideastern music. Popular with locals who come and sing and dance on the tables

    Eliezer
    186 Ben Yehuda Street Tel: 03-5275961
    Neighbourhood 25 +  pick up - bar. Small and simply decorated, crowded and full
    of cigarettes smoke but nice atmosphere

    Friends
    186 Ben Yehuda street Tel: 054-8035757
    Popular bar with wide screens great for watching sports. Mixed crowd.


                                                                                                                                     
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