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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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