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 Hamitbach
The Shuster Center, 29 Aba Achimeir, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv
Tel: 03-6318969
Kashrut: Rabbanut Tel Aviv
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Open Sunday - Thursday: 8:00am. - 10:30pm. Friday: 8:00am. - 3:00pm.
Closed Friday, Shabbat and Motzei Shabbat. |
Hamitbach - Kitchen Station
November 2013
My dining partner is a dedicated meat eater. So when I suggested Hamitbach dairy restaurant in Tel Aviv it did not illicit a warm response, till he saw the Hamitbach menu. Then he was sold.
Hamitbach is located in the upmarket Shuster Center in Ramat Aviv. The restaurant sits comfortably among the elegant shops and the upmarket goods available at the center. There is plenty of parking around the periphery of the shopping center.
Sisters Merav and Eti are the energy behind this restaurant. Both sisters have a strong background and long history in the culinary world. Both were restaurateurs in the US, first in the resort town of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Then they ran a successful bistro together in Boston. In Israel, Eti had a hand building several branches of popular Israeli chain restaurants while Merav was a personal chef.
Merav's story is like the one you saw in the film "Haute Cuisine" about the French woman who became the personal cook for the president of France. Merav has cooked for the US consul, for the British ambassador and for other dignitaries. The restaurant offers some of the favorite dishes from this period.
Hamitbach is a fusion restaurant offering modern Israeli cuisine with a mix of cultures. This you will see both in the variety of dishes and the presentation. The plates are charmingly mismatched, with every course plated differently. The menu favors high end vegetable dishes, dairy and fish.
About the Hamitbach Kitchen Station Menu
We loved the light, relaxed atmosphere at Hamitbach. The restaurant has a comfortable and spacious indoor area and a large covered outdoor space.  But the name of the restaurant says it all. Hamitbach - the kitchen - is the calling card of the restaurant. There is nothing usual or regular about the foods, Get ready for a unique and imaginative dining experience.
We began our meal with Ajami from the "small things" menu and Palestine Salad. Ajami is a delicious platter of sauteed eggplant on a yogurt and techina base topped with chick peas. This is served with sliced bread that comes to the table in a charming tin can bearing the restaurant logo. The "small things" come with a small price tag - an average 30 shekels each.
The Palestine salad is a parsley salad, rarely seen in Israeli restaurants. Parsley grows wild in Israel and is used liberally in the Arab and Bedouin kitchen. You'll want to mix it up because at the bottom of the salad bowl you'll find a base of yogurt, beets, and techina, a very Middle Eastern combination - thus the name. At Hamitbach this Middle Eastern salad is served in a gorgeous modern European serving dish.
"I'll have what she is having" we said when we saw the beautifully presented Eggs Benedict. This popular Hamitbach main course, called Berlin, includes two slightly runny poached eggs
on toast topped with a touch of smoked salmon and hollandaise sauce. We chose Berlin as a main course, but it would work as a breakfast as well. Other breakfast choices include the Turkish breakfast of Ottoman Shakshouka or the Barcelona breakfast featuring Catalan Frittatta. The French Marseille brunch features a French crepe and a sunny-side-up egg.
The English brunch includes hot bread pudding spiced with cinnamon & raisins and the Saloniki brunch, Filo & spinach pastry with a sunny-side-up egg. The portions are generous so you can comfortably share all the dishes.
For our second main course we chose the salmon dish, a lovely platter of salmon on a bed of lentil salad. On the side was a sauce with yogurt - a nice touch - and mini potatoes. The seared salmon was perfectly prepared. While you can't go too far wrong with salmon in a good restaurant, it was the lentil salad with zucchini and carrots that won me over. How do they make that? Secrets not divulged.
In addition to the exotic dishes you will find many familiar offerings like
the classic Fish & Chips.
Also enjoy a selection of sandwiches, salads, and patisserie.
And the kids menu includes pizza.
Dessert is a must at Hamitbach.
The restaurant recommended that we finish our meal with Kadaif Fistuk. Three balls of kadaif (shredded filo dough) filled with coconut and pistachio and sprinkled with powdered sugar, are served on a slate board with berry sauce on the side and a jar of vanilla ice cream. Wow. Now that is a dessert.
Our satisfying and delicious meal came to just over 200 shekels for two, a culinary bargain for sure.
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