Food

Finding a decent place to eat in Tel Aviv can sometimes be frustrating. Simple-looking eateries often live up to your low expectations, while higher prices usually mean more sophisticated decor and chic clientele rather than higher-quality food and service. For sure, you can get excellent food in Tel Aviv-in your choice of cuisine, from Russian to Argentinian, and everything in between-but good establishments may be out of the way, or have erratic schedules, or be too expensive, or have a new, novice chef, or any combination of the above.

For quick, cheap belly-fillers, head for the self-service eateries on Ben-Yehuda St. or the innumerable falafel stands; those around Shuk haCarmel and along Bezalel St. off Allenby and HaMelekh George stay open the latest. Yosi-Let’s Eat, at the intersection of Ben-Yehuda and Bograshov St., is closer to the beach scene (falafel NIS5, shwarma NIS7). Most places let you customize your falafel with a variety of self-serve toppings.