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Open Restaurants

Avi Yosef-Hay stands at the entrance to his bakery in Kiryat Shmona, on October 22, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
October 23, 2023, 10:45 pm
Resilient few who’ve stayed in Kiryat Shmona share hopes, fears in Hezbollah’s shadow
A handful of open businesses serve the 8% of northern city’s populace who remain; the rest followed government orders to evacuate due to Hezbollah rockets, fears of escalation
By Canaan Lidor
David Kichka, the Israeli culinary entrepreneur behind the new Israeli Cuisine Festival, opening November 11, 2021 around Israel (Courtesy David Kichka)
November 5, 2021, 2:04 pm
Podcast: This professional foodie says it’s time to celebrate Israeli cuisine
Culinary entrepreneur David Kichka, one of the founders of the Israeli Cuisine Festival opening next week, enthuses about Israel’s melting pot cuisine
By ToI Staff
Food scenes abound in Jerusalem, where the Open Restaurants food event opens on November 19, 2019 with walking food tours, workshops with master chefs and bakers and a food tech conference (Courtesy Open Restaurants
November 18, 2019, 3:56 am
A chance to tour Jerusalem’s after-hours bakeries and chef’s gardens
November 19-24’s Open Restaurants Jerusalem brings visitors to kitchens and bakeries, opening their doors after-hours to share the secrets and tips of the trade
By Jessica Steinberg
Bartenders from the Gatsby cocktail bar will be pouring drinks for Open Restaurants Jerusalem at the temporary bar of Fink's, the legendary watering hole currently on display at the Tower of David museum (Courtesy Igor Pavrov)
November 4, 2018, 11:16 am
Eat your way through Tel Aviv and Jerusalem with two culinary escapades
Open Restaurants Jerusalem and Tel Aviv’s Roundtables Tour start in mid-November, offering foodie delights for every palate
By Jessica Steinberg
Four female culinary entrepreneurs talk about what they love and find challenging in their work, at Open Restaurants Jerusalem, the culinary event taking place November 14-18, 2017 (Courtesy Jessica Steinberg)
November 16, 2017, 6:19 pm
Female foodies hash over culinary entrepreneurship
An Open Restaurants Jerusalem panel offers opinions of four local food business owners
By Jessica Steinberg
An Open Restaurants Jerusalem workshop in painting, November 2016 (Courtesy Tomer Foltyn)
October 16, 2017, 4:40 pm
An exalted food fest at Open Restaurants Jerusalem
The second round of this now-annual food tour takes foodies around the city
By Jessica Steinberg
Rama Ben Zvi in front of the charred hull of her renowned country restaurant, Rama's Kitchen, in the village of Nataf, September 27, 2016 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
November 28, 2016, 10:03 am
A ‘rolling ball of fire’ burned up Rama’s Kitchen, in the pastoral hills of Nataf
‘The winds are just so strong, and they don’t stop,’ says Rama Ben Zvi of the dry gusts and fire that engulfed her beloved restaurant
By Jessica Steinberg
Chowing down on maklouba and hummus with Open Restaurants at the Old City market (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
November 25, 2016, 9:16 am
Culinary tour samples pomegranates and chickpeas, upgraded Ottoman fare
Tastes of culinary history accompany an Open Restaurants visit to Jerusalem’s Old City market
By Jessica Steinberg
Assaf Granit, one of the three owners and founders of Jerusalem's famed Machneyuda restaurant. Granit will participate in Open Restaurants Jerusalem, held November 22-24, 2016 (Courtesy Machneyuda)
November 20, 2016, 10:51 am
Jerusalem opens its doors to foodies in culinary festival
In nod to its gastronomic diversity, Open Restaurants comes to the capital for the first time after several stints in Tel Aviv
By Jessica Steinberg
Chef Orel Kimchi demonstrates how to fillet a fresh sea bream (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
February 26, 2014, 7:30 pm
Sea bream gets the master chef treatment
Tel Aviv chef Orel Kimchi shows off his cooking techniques behind the counter as a preview to the Open Restaurants event
By Jessica Steinberg
Students eagerly observe a fish being filleted at last summer's pilot for Open Restaurants. (photo credit: Tomer Foltyn)
February 23, 2014, 11:13 am
Chefs open their kitchens to public
Tel Aviv hosts its first Open Restaurants event: Four days, 80 restaurants, and more than 100 workshops on food, cooking and techniques
By Jessica Steinberg
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