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Eben Gvirol from North to South
Starts from Hayarkon Park to Cinemateque Area
Places of Interest on Eben Gvirol and places worth deviating for
Park Hayarkon the green lung of the city and
Hayarkon River the place to jog, cycle or row
Kikar Hamedina a huge round square with all the most exclusive and expensive shops - international major brands :
DKNY, Versace, etc.
Weitzman Shopping Center a small mall around Ichilov, the city hospital
Rabin Square and Tel Aviv municipality - that serves as a location for demonstrations and festivities
Rabin Memorial - where Yitzhak Rabin was shot
Einav Center a venue for musical shows
Gan Hayir shopping center
all around 69-71 Eben Gvirol street
Kikar Masarik little square with shops and cafes.
Hen Boulevard - a beautiful shaded boulevard leads to Habima
Tel Aviv Museum of Art - the leading Art Museum in Israel
The Performing Art Center - a venue for Opera and theater
The Beit Ariela Library - The biggest library in the city
The Kameri Theater - theater of Tel Aviv
all at 27 Shaul Hamelech street
Tel Aviv Cinemateque - 2 Shprintzak street
Haarbaa Street - a street with many fancy restaurants
Yehuda Halevi Street - leading to Allenby has some nice cafes and shops
A choice special shops in Eben Gvirol Area
Steve Shenker - Betta Books
131 Eben Gvirol street Tel: 03-5462990
A little shop that exists already 23 years and has a wide range of second hand and new books in English at a very
good value price - looks a little neglected but interesting
Freak
14 Weizman Street Weizman Shopping Center Tel: 03-6961826
Freak is a shop and also kind of club for computer and other console freaks. They also have miniature and D&D
games and books and courses.
Alambica
87 Eben Gvirol Tel: 03 5220091
The renown designer Hagara opened this new shop and presents a line of clothes that are suitable for ladies that
are not starving themselves to death with low calories diets. Beautiful bags too.
Tollmans
Gan Hayir 71 Eben Gvirol Street Tel:03 5223236
Leading and exclusive design shop that presents stylish furniture and home accessories for stylish houses in a
modern up to date mode
Almaz Ethiopian workshop
Gan Hayir Shopping Center (lower level) Eben Gvirol street Tel: 03-5290353
Almaz is a store that offers traditional handmadeembroidery and other ethnic handcraft works made by Ethiopian
women living in Israel. This is a project that helps the Ethiopian community and provides us with their beautiful art .
Opal Gallery Ltd
Gan Ha'ir Shopping Center
71 Eben Gvirol Street down level Tel: 03-5224017
A nice selection of original and reproduction paintings and lithographies. Also a few beautiful sculptures.
Olia
73 Frishman Street Tel: 03-5223235
New shop dedicated to Olive Oil and its products.
Librairie Du Foyer
14 Kikar Masaryk Tel: 03 5243835
French Book Store that offers a wide range of French books and newspapers.
WABI SABI BY FISHNDAG
17 Kikar Masarik
A new concept shop that follows the ideas of the Wabi Sabi aesthetics, The Japanese Art of Impermanence.
Original clothes in a highly designed shop
Villa Maroc - The Moroccan Design Center
110 Yehuda Halevi Street (near the Cinemateque) Tel: 03 5620401
An ethnic shop designed as a Moroccan style interior - beautiful decoration items and textiles all imported from
Morocco.
Retro
123 Yehuda Halevi Tel:03 6850663
Dedicated to the 60th and 70th style in interior design, this shop looks as if I entered my aunt old house. All these
lamps and vases the armchairs and the Formica tables it's all there and it appears it is fashionable again.
A choice of places to eat and drink on Eben Gvirol Area
Pizza Meter
137 Eben Gvirol Tel: 1-700 5050 40
There are many pizzas in Tel Aviv Pizza Meter is one of the best. I definitely recommend. There is variety of
"specially designed pizzas" and they all come in a rectangle shape and are measured by meter - I am not kidding :-)
Pizza Pazza
102 Eben Gvirol Street
(close to Gan Hayr mall on the opposite side) Tel: 03-5241122
Unique Italian fast food restaurant - pizza, calzone, fucaccia and great lasagna and spaghetti all prepared fresh on
spot
Cafeneto
95 Eben Gvirol Street Arlozorov Corner
Tel: 03-5229706
Cafeneto is a chain café that serves nice coffee, great sandwiches and cakes. I recommend the Greek Sandwich
that consists mainly in goat cheese with grilled peppers and the tuna fish sandwich.
Breakfast in various styles is served all day and it is one of the best in town.
Café Hilel
Eben Gvirol Arlozorov Corner
A self service chain coffee - what I like about Café Hilel are the little things you can order - like a small sandwich for
or little cakes for less than 10 NIS - it is nice when you don't feel like eating a lot.
Ilan's
90 Eben Gvirol street (Opposite to Gan Ha'ir Shopping Center) Tel: 03-5235334
The pioneer inventor of the coffee art in Tel Aviv. Ilan started a decade ago with a new standard of coffee - he even
mixed his own brand of coffee - nowadays there are many branches of Ilan's in Tel Aviv and all over Israel. Good
coffee nice cakes and sandwiches. Nice sandwiches and cakes too.
Bakery
70 Eben Gvirol Street
Small coffee shop with wonderful patisserie delicatessen - great tarte tatin that you can take home.
Brasserie M&R
70 Eben Gvirol street (just opposite the Municipality)
Tel:03-6967111
French style bistro designed in a Parisian style and serves wonderful French dishes and pastries. One of the best
in town.
Café Landwer
70 Eben Gvirol David Hamelech Corner Tel: 03-6964924
Decorated with café related motifs, with a huge open space around it Landwer is a nice place to sit and watch the
noisy traffic in the Rabin Square :-) nice breakfast deal and very good sandwiches - they serve also half
sandwiches Open 24 hours.
Knafe
52 Chen Blvd Tel: 03-6960153
Middle Eastern Arabic style menu - serving humus and techina, tiny cut salad and grilled meat - cnafe is a desert
made of goat cheese it is very nice but I don't recommend to try it here - beside the cnafe the food is nice and they
serve a great breakfast with shaksuka (eggs and tomatoes spicy
Boutique Central
Kikar Hamedina Jabotinsky corner
Masarik Square Frishman Corner Tel: 1-700-700-061
Take away French Patisserie that makes you feel like you are in Paris - real French croissants and beautiful
pastries that you can take home or to the nearby bench and enjoy. They also sell Coffee to go
café café Kikar Massarik
Chain café that started in Kikar Hamedina and has lately opened many new branches. The food and service are
nice. I recommend the breakfast that is very good and has a nice small cut salad, freshly squeezed juice also the
bread is brought warm from the oven, sometimes a little burned but very tasty.Nice location in the quiet Massarik
square.
Hasushia
54 Eben Gvirol Street Tel: 03-6957597
Popular place for sushi lovers. Also great for take away. Fresh and good value.
Giraffe
48 Eben Gvirol Street Tel: 03-6916294
Nice and popular noodle restaurant - all the thai noodles dishes and also serves sushi - very good desserts too
Lehem Erez (Lehem means bread in Hebrew)
52 Eben Gvirol Tel: 03-6968381
The Israeli "King of Bread" Erez Komrovski invented the "gourmet" style bread and sells various kinds of bread in
the shop next to the café. The café serves a choice of sandwiches and cakes and a nice breakfast.
Minna Tomei - Asian Kitchen
30 Eben Gvirol Street Tel: 03-6966363
New Japanese Restaurant transparent cooking (minna tomei in Japanese means transparent) with casual
atmosphere and great food for very reasonable prices. Crowded at lunch time.
ll Pastaio
27 Eben Gvirol street Tel: 5251166
The most ancient and authentic Italian pasta restaurant - serves very good and fresh pasta dishes and deserts you
can also buy fresh made pasta to take home.
Dubnov 8
8 Dubnov Street Tel: 03-6968655
Café bar situated in the middle of the culture triangle Tel Aviv Museum, the Opera and the Museum workshops. It
has a modern style square bar and also a nice terrace and garden. During day time it serves as a café restaurant
and at night it is a bar. The food is decent and the atmosphere nice.
Goocha
14 Eben Gvirol street Tel: 03-691103
Sea food restaurant bar and now opened a new eclectic decorated Nice Shrimps and great creme brulee de
Meshugaat (Crazy woman in Hebrew)
12 Eben Gvirol Tel:03- 6094066
Café Bar Restaurant on the Eben Gvirol sidewalk not far from the Cinemateque with nice home style food and a
special atmosphere. The rumour says the place is gay friendly but you don't have to be gay to enjoy it :-)
Tamara
95 Hashmonaim Street
Tel: 03-6240707
Family run French restaurant with friendly atmosphere and service
Odeon
10 Haarbaa Street Tel: 03-5628868
Grill restaurant decorated in an American diner style specializes in meat. The place to try to get your perfect steak.
A nice place for a anniversary meal or so.
Papagaio
14 Haarbaa Street Tel: 03-5626888
Brazilian meat restaurant - menu fix for NIS 115 eat all you can and no
doggie bags:-) - you get more quantity than quality but that is always the case with this style of restaurants
Sofia
16 Haarbaa Street Tel: 03-5614725
This is a wonderful Bulgarian restaurant that has recently been moved from Jaffa to Tel Aviv. Wonderful soups and
kebabs and other Balkan dishes.
Onami
18 Haarbaa Street Tel: 03-5621172
Trendy Japanese restaurant. Designed in a luxurious New York style. Fresh sushi and sashimi and other
Japanese dishes. Quite pricey but it is definitely a great night out
Yin Yan
17 Haarbaa Street Tel: 03-6869888
One of the best Chinese restaurants in the city. It belongs to the famous chef Aharoni
Queens of Falafel
85 Yehuda Halevi Tel: 03-5662050
This is the yuppie falafel by the famous Orna and Ela who own a gourmet restaurant on Sheinkin Street. They serve
different kind of falafel like green or other color and there are tables where you can sit and enjoy your falafel in peace.
Bars
Hashoftim (the Judges)
39 Eben Gvirol (Hashoftim Corner) Tel: 03-6951153
One of the oldest bars in town, named after the street next by. Mixed crowd and traditional pub food
Jewish Princess
67 Yehuda Halevy
Nice and cosy atmosphere (gay friendly)
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