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BROUGHT TO YOU BY ITRAVELJERUSALEM.COM Jerusalem 3 Out on the town Clockwise from main, drinkers and diners near Havilio Square, the Mahane Yehuda market, and a chef talking at the Open Restaurants Festival Nightlife When the sun goes down over Jerusalem, there’s still plenty that shines in the city. Nightlife here tends to be civilised and sophisticated, the focus on cocktails more than clubbing. Jazz café and blues club Birman is a gem in Dorot Rishonim, off Ben Yehuda Street. There’s free live music six nights a week until 4am in a mellow bistro setting, with a terrific atmosphere and bar food (facebook.com/birman.bistro.bar). Venture down a flight of steps off downtown Hillel Street and knock on an unmarked door to be let into the Gatsby Cocktail Room, a fun take on a 1920s Prohibition-era speakeasy. The joke only goes so far – in reality this is a sophisticated cocktail bar with tastings and live music to go with the creations of the in-house mixologists (facebook.com/gatsbyjerusalem). TREND- SETTERS London calling Israeli chef Assaf Granit’s Jerusalem restaurant, MachneYuda, has been so successful that he launched The Palomar restaurant in London’s Soho, offering the same cooking style and relaxed setting. (machneyuda.co.il) Capital start-up Hi-tech project Jnext highlights opportunities for the city’s start-ups. Its founder, Ms Stav Erez, was named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30. A Tech Tour run by Made In JLM introduces groups to Jerusalem’s tech ecosystem. A new craft Entrepreneur Avi Moskowitz set up Beer Bazaar, selling more than 70 Israeli craft beers. It has become a social hotspot for locals gathering together on weekday evenings. Exchanging a basement for a roof terrace, the outdoor lounge at the top of the five-star Mamilla Hotel, strikingly positioned beside the Old City walls, offers a cool space to sit back with a drink and enjoy alfresco dining and the magnificent night-time views (mamillahotel.com/rooftop). At the other end of the scale, the latest craze is craft beer houses. Beer Bazaar in Mahane Yehuda stocks more than 70 craft beers from microbreweries around the country. In 2017, they started brewing their own too (beerbazaar.co.il). There’s plenty of younger nightlife around Mahane Yehuda and Nahalat Shiv’a. That’s where most music venues and dance clubs with late hours and a wilder, carefree crowd are clustered. Live music sets generally happen on Thursday and Saturday nights. Jerusalem’s talents lead the way at home and overseas Food & drink Israel’s laid-back style and inventive approach extends into the kitchen. Delicious fusion cuisine is the fascinating consequence of so many communities converging from east and west, north and south, bringing ideas old and new, traditional and innovative. As a result, Jerusalem’s menus embrace the flavours of the Middle East, North Africa and South America, as well as Asian spices and classic European cuisine. Israel produces a vast variety of fruit and vegetables – you can see this diversity for yourself in the daily Mahane Yehuda market in the heart of Jerusalem. And after the stallholders and shoppers have gone home, Mahane Yehuda’s alleyways and lanes fill instead with strollers keeping up with the city’s ever-changing bar and restaurant scene. Others head to the outdoor tables of restaurants, brasseries, patisseries, ice cream parlours and cafés around Jaffa Road, Zion Square, Ben Yehuda and Nahalat Shiv’a. There’s smarter, more refined dining in town too, but even then the ambience remains informal. To celebrate Jerusalem’s dynamic food movement, its restaurants will open their doors for the second Jerusalem Open Restaurants Festival, running from 14-18 November 2018, letting food lovers and visitors explore behind the scenes and offering tours of the tastes and specialities of the Jerusalem table. The tour ranges from street markets to the most elegant establishments, and from local produce to the finest ingredients from around the world. There will be food talks, meetings and tastings with some of Jerusalem’s top chefs. SUPPLEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY: COVER: TOMER FOLTYN; OTHER PAGES: GETTY 1031111_Jerusalem.indd 1 10/01/2018 15:26:04
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Out on the town Clockwise from main,
drinkers and diners near Havilio Square,
the Mahane Yehuda market, and a chef
talking at the Open Restaurants Festival
NightlifeWhen the sun goes down over Jerusalem, there’s still plenty that shines in the city. Nightlife here tends to be civilised and sophisticated, the focus on cocktails more than clubbing.
Jazz café and blues club Birman is a gem in Dorot Rishonim, off Ben Yehuda Street. There’s free live music six nights a week until 4am in a mellow bistro setting, with a terrific atmosphere and bar food (facebook.com/birman.bistro.bar).
Venture down a flight of steps off downtown Hillel Street and knock on an unmarked door to be let into the Gatsby Cocktail Room, a fun take on a 1920s Prohibition-era speakeasy.
The joke only goes so far – in reality this is a sophisticated cocktail bar with tastings and live music to go with the creations of the in-house mixologists (facebook.com/gatsbyjerusalem).
TREND-SETTERS
London callingIsraeli chef Assaf
Granit’s Jerusalem restaurant,
MachneYuda, has been so successful that he
launched The Palomar restaurant in London’s
Soho, offering the same cooking style and
relaxed setting. (machneyuda.co.il)
Capital start-up Hi-tech project Jnext highlights
opportunities for the city’s start-ups. Its
founder, Ms Stav Erez, was named one of
Forbes’ 30 under 30. A Tech Tour run by
Made In JLM introduces groups to Jerusalem’s
tech ecosystem.
A new craftEntrepreneur Avi
Moskowitz set up Beer Bazaar, selling more than 70 Israeli craft
beers. It has become a social hotspot for locals gathering together on
weekday evenings.
Exchanging a basement for a roof terrace, the outdoor lounge at the top of the five-star Mamilla Hotel, strikingly positioned beside the Old City walls, offers a cool space to sit back with a drink and enjoy alfresco dining and the magnificent night-time views (mamillahotel.com/rooftop).
At the other end of the scale, the latest craze is craft beer houses. Beer Bazaar in Mahane Yehuda stocks more than 70 craft beers from microbreweries around the country. In 2017, they started brewing their own too (beerbazaar.co.il).
There’s plenty of younger nightlife around Mahane Yehuda and Nahalat Shiv’a. That’s where most music venues and dance clubs with late hours and a wilder, carefree crowd are clustered. Live music sets generally happen on Thursday and Saturday nights.
Jerusalem’s talents lead the way at home
and overseasFood &drink
Israel’s laid-back style and inventive approach extends into the kitchen. Delicious fusion cuisine is the fascinating consequence of so many communities converging from east and west, north and south, bringing ideas old and new, traditional and innovative.
As a result, Jerusalem’s menus embrace the flavours of the Middle East, North Africa and South America, as well as Asian spices and classic European cuisine.
Israel produces a vast variety of fruit and vegetables – you can see this diversity for yourself in the daily Mahane Yehuda market in the heart of Jerusalem.
And after the stallholders and shoppers have gone home, Mahane Yehuda’s alleyways and lanes fill instead with strollers keeping up with the city’s ever-changing bar and restaurant scene.
Others head to the outdoor tables of restaurants, brasseries, patisseries, ice cream parlours and cafés around Jaffa Road, Zion Square, Ben Yehuda and Nahalat Shiv’a. There’s smarter, more refined dining in town too, but even then the ambience remains informal.
To celebrate Jerusalem’s dynamic food movement, its restaurants will open their doors for the second Jerusalem Open Restaurants Festival, running from 14-18 November 2018, letting food lovers and visitors explore behind the scenes and offering tours of the tastes and specialities of the Jerusalem table.
The tour ranges from street markets to the most elegant establishments, and from local produce to the finest ingredients from around the world. There will be food talks, meetings and tastings with some of Jerusalem’s top chefs.
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