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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 563

Brown Hotels

Illustrative: People check in at a counter at Ben Gurion International Airport in November 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
October 3, 2023, 1:00 pm
Daily Briefing Oct. 3: US visa waiver ‘is gamechanger’ for bilateral ties and travel
US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses visa waiver program success; news editor Luke Tress looks at award for anti-Israel ex-UN official; Jessica Steinberg talks Sukkot events
By ToI Staff
Chef Eyal Shani (left) at Dvora, the kosher restaurant at the entrance to the Brown Debrah hotel that is one of several kosher Brown hotels (Courtesy PR)
September 27, 2023, 12:54 am
Hip Brown hotel chain embarks on holy quest for Tel Aviv’s religious visitors
The group’s boutique offerings have long catered to guests seeking urban cool. Now it’s bringing sukkahs and kosher chow to the secular city in a bid to entice a more devout crowd
By Jessica Steinberg
Rooftop of the Brown Acropol Hotel on Omonia Square in Greece. (courtesy Brown Hotels)
August 12, 2022, 4:19 am
The rise and rise of the little-known Israeli hotel chain about to go supernova
Brown Hotels, which has swiftly built an array of sleek, modern properties, is now making another huge leap with 45 new hotels in the works, most of them in Greece
By Danielle Nagler
Some of the menu options at Ruhan, a previously kosher bistro cocktail bar at the Brown Jerusalem hotel, which was using vegan Redefine meat in some dishes in order to expand its kosher options (Courtesy Anatoly Michaelo)
May 8, 2022, 4:04 pm
Jerusalem cocktail bar drops kosher certification in bid for broader clientele
The Brown Jerusalem hotel’s Ruhan cocktail bar switches to non-kosher menu after four months as a Tzohar-certified brasserie
By Jessica Steinberg
The Hotel Montefiore in Tel Aviv turned its parking lot into an outdoor dining space during the coronavirus summer season, July 2020 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
April 28, 2021, 6:07 am
Israel’s hotels eye foreign tourists and wonder: If we open, will they come?
With the rules for noncitizens entering the country about to be significantly loosened, rooms are being readied despite concerns about travel during COVID and lack of staff
By Jessica Steinberg
Masks and hand sanitizer are now the norm at luxury hotel Mamilla in Jerusalem (Courtesy Mamilla Hotel)
August 15, 2020, 2:16 pm
Deep cleaning, co-living, kids’ games: Israeli hotels pivot to survive pandemic
Mamilla, Hotel Montefiore and the Brown Hotels are working hard to figure out a way to keep the doors open as overseas tourist trade grinds to a halt
By Jessica Steinberg
Breakfast and high tea are served in the front garden and front vestibule of the boutique Villa Brown hotel, where the kosher certification is offered by Tzohar (Courtesy Villa Brown)
September 26, 2017, 2:00 pm
High tea and a touch of 19th-century living at Jerusalem’s Villa Brown hotel
Tel Aviv hotelier Leon Avigad takes his chic brand of boutique hotels to the capital, offering a throwback to the city’s colonial past
By Jessica Steinberg
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