Vegan
Western
Beer/Wine
Bakery
Israeli, Kosher
Opened by the two sisters and one brother of the Zakaim family in 2013 and under new management since 2017. Offers kosher food made from local and seasonal products. The restaurant, built and designed almost entirely by the brothers themselves, is an ecological space where all of the materials, dishes and furniture are secondhand. Try the hand-torn potato chips with house-made ketchup. Reported closed, May 2020.
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63 Reviews
First Review by Gony
V:Traveller
Points +4077
excellent - Edit
Food: 5/5
Read moreVegan options (variety): 5/5
Vegan labelling: 5/5
Value for money: 5/5
Portion size: 5/5
Atmosphere: 4/5
Service: 5/5
Location: 4/5
Reservation recommended: no
Visited: 3/2018
One of the best vegan restaurants I've been worldwide. Very big portions. Nice staff. Excellent food.
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NJ220
Points +719
Very nice - Edit
Nice little restaurant, lovely staff and good food. Their potato chips and their bread is amazing!
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trekstein
Points +157
Zakaim - Edit
Pleasant, reasonably good food
Read morePros: Well-situated in the city., Friendly staff., Reasonably good food.
Cons: Ambience average., Decor not particularly inspiring., Not very extensive menu.
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Dharmalivi
Points +163
Zakaim is a gem of a vegan boutique restaurant! Very good food! - Edit
Zakaim is another gem of a vegan restaurant in Tel Aviv. It’s a boutique restaurant with a super nice eco feel, everything is secondhand and cool decorated There’s also a backyard lounge! Lovely Persian influenced menu.When in a place like this, you need to try the Persian Lemon Cocktail -gin made with marinated Persian lemon! I had this as a pre-dinner drink - very nice! The service was so good! Suggestions and explanation of the menu was made by the very nice and service minded guy!
Read moreTahini Plate with matbucha, fresh vegetables and homemade bread. And Hand-torn fries with homemade mayonnaise - Perfect starters! The tahini spread, the jam and bean paste was
Cauliflower Gondi roasted in the oven, with tzaziki, gondi sauce, spicy arisa oil, grated Persian lemon and roasted chickpeas. Served on a chickpea waffle - This was a good and creamy dish! It had a mild flavor and beautiful presented - almost looked like a flower
I was recommended the Homemade Malabi - and it was delicious! A bit like a panacotta with pomegranate syrup, shredded coconut, peanuts and pistachios. Perfect!
Pros: Very good food, Super-awesome staff, excellent service, nice vibe, cool place
Guest
foczini
Points +23
Best vegan resto in Tel Aviv - Edit
Amazing place, homey, smokey with vibrant and flavourful cuisine.
Read moreI had a lovely dinner with my sister and it felt like home, like we were part of the Zakaim family.
The menu is really brief but still it's not easy to choose just one dish.
Don't skip the dessert! Remember you have a special place in your stomach for it 😉
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JessicaWaters
Points +30
Perfect meal for our first night in Tel Aviv! - Edit
We stumbled upon this place by accident and so glad we did!! The food was so fresh and SO flavourful!!
Read moreI had the cauliflower dish and my husband had the calzone. Very unique dishes and top quality!
Service was great too.
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Calahan
Points +31
Excellent! - Edit
They treated this fish-out-of-water American boy with kindness. They were very helpful and patient. The roasted eggplant was magnificent. As the app says, try their hand-torn potato chips with house-made ketchup! My only regret was my wife, who was back in the hotel sick, missed out. Thank you HappyCow I wouldn’t have found them without you!
Read morePros: Vegan , Friendly staff, Excellent food
Cons: none
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YonatanCwikel
Points +50
Excellent - Edit
Really good food and service. All vegan!
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haubi66
Points +305
Very beautiful located and furnished restaurant - Edit
Very beautiful located and furnished restaurant. You can watch the chef preparing your dish. The menu is 100% vegan with extraordinary and special dishes. Serves a simply delishious almond-dates- cinnamon drink. The staff is very friendly.
Read morePros: compelety vegan, friendly staff, unusual and dishes
Cons: some dishes are expensive, but it is absolutely wo
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warino
Points +154
creative vegan delights - Edit
Amazing! Try the fries and the cauliflower. Other worldly good. Also the open calzone. Service exceptional.
Read morePros: Food, Ambiance, Service
Cons: Bathroom door lock is dangerous!!
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Onur
Points +124
Fresh and tasty Food - Edit
The restaurant is so cool. They play oriental music and you can see the cooks preparing your food. It's all so fresh and delicious, especially the Mushroom Skewer!
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maorblu
Points +88
Delicious vegan chef restaurant - Edit
*TL;DR* Delicious. Yet pricy...
Read more*Facts* Always make a reservation as it's crowded. We've ordered, the fucaccia, ricotta, tahini, cauliflower salad, fries, mushroom skewer and the chocolate mousse. We've also ordered a variety of cocktails. The price was ±150ILS per person.
*Thoughts* We've been to Zakaim twice now and absolutely love the vibe of the place. The food is amazing and don't pass on the home made price. We had a talk with the chef and she said everyhting is made on the spot, organic and clean. The Dakiri and the Persian lemon cocktails were very exotic and we liked them. The homemade Arak wasn't to my liking since I don't like the taste of marzipan (made with almonds).
Pros: Full vegan menu, Chef restaurant, The food
Cons: Pricy. Pricy. Pricy.
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ShanaCohen
Points +71
Not Consistent - Edit
We have been here many times over the past few years and loved the place and the food, although always too oily and salty. The creativity with the food is wonderful.
Read moreYesterday we were there and all our breads and food was burnt which in itself it very unhealthy to eat black burnt food. The hostess was very rude saying this is how it is always cooked and they must burn the flat bread and put oil on everything. She was not listening to anything we said, such as we have been here many times before and never had burnt food. She was literally angry and upset with us for pointing out the burnt food. We didn't recognize the wait staff maybe they are new but the cooks were not and the food was all burnt.
We have brought friends and groups here over the years to introduce them to vegan food, but we will not return again. This experience was so counter all the other and overall they just didn't care what we said, and I believe the staff was just not informed. When a place is consistent then there are none of these issues, so I dont know either they always burn the food and the past 20 times we have been there we got luck and it wasn't burnt, or this one time it is burnt is really the way they cook? Tel Aviv has so many options but I hope this place will educate their staff and cooks to stay consistent hopefully with not burning the food.
If they go back to non burnt food it is very tasty but a meal only to eat once a month with how salty, rich and oily it is.
If they keep burning the food then it is not worth it at all. As we paid a lot of money last night for burnt food and no understanding that this is not acceptable food to eat.
Pros: ambiance, open kitchen
Cons: inconsistent, oily, burnt and overly salty food, staff uninformed and unwilling to listen
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Theetif
Points +36
מסעדה מצויית - Edit
האוכל טרי טרי. הכל נעשה במקום. שיפוד פטריות היער מצויין.
Read moreדי יקר אבל שווה מדיי פעם
Pros: אוכל טוב מאוד
Cons: קצת יקר
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TraveLaika
Points +495
nice place but not as expeted! - Edit
I enjoyed the food, but found it a bit expensive concerning the taste and experience! Liked the service and enjoyed the chillout 80s music! ;) Thanks for the great time and love to you! Keep up the good work!
Read morePros: service was great and happy, interior and things look great
Cons: less taste in food (saltiness is not a question)
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rakmob
Points +103
vegan chef restaurant a la Persian style - Edit
excellent!no substitutes, pure vegan!no tofu, saiten and all that crap. only amazing food
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Xdme
Points +43
Équivalent d'un 3 étoiles Michelin - Edit
Incroyable quand le vegetal devient génial !! BRAVO au chef. Courrez-y !!!!
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Oreng1976
Points +214
over priced and disappointing - Edit
Came here twice and both times left feeling I was being cheated paying way over what I would expect for such dishes and quite frankly it wasn't worth it.
Read moreIt's to bad they need to rethink and make it more inviting and affordable.
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alkoport
Points +40
Went there twice in three days - Edit
During my planing for our israel tripin october this year I have noticed that I have forgotten to review this place, I have visited in 2014 and it has absolutely earned a great review!
Read moreMy girlfriend and I went there twice in three days and couldn't get enough of the food they serve there.
I can not describe what type of food they realy prepare. It is some mediteranean/persian mix based on vegetables and it is just great.
Whatever we ordered (and we tried to eat as much as possible), we where thrilled!
Maybe the only negative thing could be the service. If you are avaiting some waiter dressed in black and white accompanying you to your table, you will be disapointed. It is the typical israeli chaos, but whenever we asked for some advice, we got a very friendly help. Actually after a short moment of insecurity (hey, we are germans and used to niggling organization) we felt completely at home.
I'm looking forward to our visit there this year!
Pros: Fantastic food, Nice stuff, Nice vide
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daroff
Points +1613
OMG - AMAZING VEGAN EXPERIENCE - Edit
Great food, great service. Can not say enough about how amazing Zakaim is. So many amazing choices & great help from the wait staff to figure out what we should order. Everything was truly amazing.
Read morePros: great food, great service
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Lisa Bloom
Points +66
charming and delicious - Edit
Vegan Persian is a rarity, and this place delivered creative, tasty plate after plate, delivered by a friendly English speaking server. I will be returning for more!
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andrea
Points +638
Just not a hit - Edit
I get why people love this place. But ultimately it's about how good your meal is; the rest is gravy --so to speak, sorry for the idiomatic English. We started with a special: roasted cherry tomato and pea pod salad with grated faux Parmesan. That cheez was beyond belief delicious. Wow. But it bugged me that they didn't bother to trim the stems off the pea pods. I get that they're so fresh, you don't have to show me by leaving stems on. Husband got the mushroom shawarma dish which was really great. He loved it. (63 shek, so s bit pricey). I was interested in a dish with a spicey tomato sauce but the waitress warned that it was fairly hot so I switched to a roasted eggplant with tahina that she said was less so. But it was quite spicey and I told her it was a problem. Her English was just ok, but she sent over the manager. He was very nice and instead of taking it away he said "would some extra bread and tahina help?" I liked that because I really hate waste also! I ended up taking most of it home. She even told me the dish was hotter than usual that night. I have to say the HUGE loaves of fresh bread are awesome! So was the tahina. In Israel if you want to add a tip to your CC when paying you have to tell them the amount. We told her to add 16 shekels but she added just over 15% which was annoying. That would be an extremely high tip here. It was so awkward but we had the charge redone. So it wasn't the best experience ever for us.
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MerrylAzriel
Points +62
Great Vegan Spot - Edit
Fantastic service and fun food. There were so many good options on the menu, we mostly took the server's recommendations. They kindly adjusted spice levels for those in our party who don't go in for heat. They were also trying out a new dish, Bread Steak (so named because the experience of eating it is like steak, although it's really more of a bread salad) and they brought our table one on the house. Definitely try the creative house cocktails.
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SophiaHoffmann
Points +163
A very special experience - Edit
Wow, I just loved everything about this place. The food, the people, the sustainability idea, the whole concept. I went there twice and ended up trying almost everything on the menu! I love the fact that chef Haral Zakaim who is supernice and communicative doesn't use any processed products in his meals! Loved the mushroom shawarma, the fresh polenta with cashew yoghurt, the winter soup, the persian rice dish, the apple strudel, chocolate mousse..just don't miss it - it's amazing!
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amiramke
Points +76
amazing! - Edit
This place is the most precious gem in the entire vegan world. The food is delicious, made with love and supports multiple local businesses and vendors. The atmosphere is relaxing and unpretentious. It's a family business and they make everything on the spot. Always my first choice for lunch or dinner.
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Shiri
Points +42
amazing hand torn fries - Edit
We loved the eco concept and service. Fries were amazing! Mains were disappointing - under seasoned and too much oil, even though the ingredients were very high quality (like beautiful wild mushrooms). Cocktails were excellent too.
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RMA20904
Points +223
Good But Not Great - Edit
It was hit and miss for us. Some items had nuanced flavors, others did not. Very creative kitchen, but didn't hit it out of the park for me. Service was uneven. Suggest making a reservation, especially on a Thursday night.
Read morePros: interesting food combinations
Cons: uneven service, outdoor seating = smoking area
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