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Best Restaurants for Brunch in Tel Aviv (2026)
Weekend brunch and Israeli breakfast · Tel Aviv · 6 rooms ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published June 12, 2024 · Updated June 2026 · Reviewed by Fredrik Filipsson, Editor-in-Chief · How we rank · Corrections
Cafe Puaa has served shakshuka amid the bric-a-brac of the Jaffa flea market since 1998, and on Rothschild Boulevard Benedict has poured coffee around the clock for years. Tel Aviv treats breakfast as a civic institution, the spread of small salads and eggs that the world copied as the Israeli breakfast. These six, ranked, are where to spend a long Friday or Saturday morning in the city.
1.Cafe Puaa
The bohemian Jaffa flea-market cafe for all-day shakshuka; everything in the room, down to the dishware, is for sale.
Cafe Puaa opened in 1998 in the middle of the Jaffa flea market and helped turn the Shuk HaPishpeshim into a dining destination. The room is famously eclectic, mismatched vintage furniture and crockery that are all priced to sell, and the kitchen serves shakshuka and the full Israeli breakfast spread all day.
It runs from 9am to past midnight, longer on Thursday and Friday, a relaxed all-day pace that suits a slow flea-market morning. This is the most characterful breakfast in the city, as much a junk-shop salon as a cafe.
2.Claro
Chef Ran Shmueli’s farm-to-table weekend brunch in a Templer-era building; book the Friday seating in the Sarona courtyard.
Ran Shmueli runs Claro inside a 130-year-old Templer building in the Sarona colony, a farm-to-table Mediterranean kitchen with an open pass. The weekend brunch leans on seasonal produce and the wood oven, a sit-down service rather than a buffet, in one of the city’s handsomest rooms.
Brunch runs the weekend mornings, and the leafy Sarona setting makes it the destination pick for a special breakfast. Reserve ahead; this is the chef-led, dressed-up end of the Tel Aviv brunch scene.
3.Dallal
A Neve Tzedek bakery-bistro for croissants and a weekend brunch; book a courtyard table on the prettiest street in town.
Dallal sits on Shabazi Street, the main artery of Neve Tzedek, just past the Suzanne Dallal Center, and has paired a patisserie with a restaurant since 2007. The brunch comes with the bakery’s own croissants, pain au chocolat and halva-and-date pastries, served in a courtyard on the city’s most photogenic lane.
It is the polished neighbourhood option, more bistro than cafe, with a pastry counter worth the visit on its own. Reserve for the weekend; this is brunch in the prettiest corner of old Tel Aviv.
4.Benedict
The Rothschild breakfast institution for eggs Benedict and towering pancakes; the safe, any-hour Tel Aviv morning.
Benedict runs on Rothschild Boulevard at number 29, with a second branch on Ben Yehuda, and built its name as the city’s dedicated breakfast house. The menu is exactly what it says, eggs Benedict, towering pancakes, French toast and shakshuka, served in a brisk, reliable diner format.
Long known for round-the-clock breakfast, the Rothschild room now keeps daytime-into-evening hours, so check before a 3am craving. It is the dependable, no-surprises pick, the breakfast you send a first-time visitor to with confidence.
5.Meshek Barzilay
Merav Barzilay’s organic vegan kitchen and its famous Friday brunch; the plant-based pick a block off Rothschild.
Meshek Barzilay grew from a moshav farm into a Neve Tzedek restaurant, an organic vegetarian and vegan kitchen founded by Merav Barzilay. The weekend draw is its much-loved Friday brunch, a generous plant-based spread that includes a vegan boureka of spinach and cashew cheese.
The room is calm and green, a short walk off Rothschild, and the cooking is serious rather than worthy. This is the destination for a vegan or vegetarian table that still wants the full Tel Aviv breakfast ritual.
6.Bucke Cafe
An Old North local’s cafe for one of the city’s most-cited shakshukas; walk in for the small-salads breakfast plate.
Bucke runs at 40 Yehuda HaMaccabi Street in the Old North, with a second branch near Habima, a classic Tel Avivian neighbourhood cafe. The shakshuka is the order, regularly named among the city’s best, served with the spread of little salads that defines the local breakfast.
It draws a steady local crowd rather than tourists, a sign of a kitchen the neighbourhood trusts. Walk in for a weekday morning; the small-salads breakfast plate is the way to eat here.
Not for everyone
Famous, but not actually brunch
Manta Ray. The beachfront institution at Charles Clore Beach was the city’s classic champagne-brunch address, but the venue is in transition, with the operator handing it to new management in early 2026. Do not count on its old brunch service until a new operator is confirmed.
HaKosem. Ariel Rosenthal’s falafel and hummus counter on Shlomo HaMelech is one of the best quick meals in the city, but it is street food, not a sit-down brunch. Come for a falafel at lunch, not for eggs in the morning.
Port Said. Eyal Shani’s vinyl-soundtracked small-plates bar by the synagogue runs from midday into the small hours, with no breakfast service. It is a late-day and late-night room, the opposite end of the clock from brunch.
How to brunch well in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv brunch clusters by district: Neve Tzedek for the pretty bistros and the vegan kitchen, the Old North for the trusted neighbourhood cafes, Sarona for the chef-led weekend service, and Jaffa for the flea-market room. Rothschild Boulevard threads the middle with the dedicated breakfast houses. Almost all of it is walkable or a short cab ride apart.
The Israeli breakfast is the format to know, a sharing spread of eggs, small salads, cheeses and bread rather than a single plate, and shakshuka is the other default order. Friday is the big brunch day before the city slows for Shabbat, so the destination rooms, Claro and Meshek Barzilay among them, fill their Friday tables fast and reward a booking. For a walk-in, the neighbourhood cafes and Cafe Puaa in Jaffa take the morning crowd as it comes.
Frequently asked
Where is the best brunch in Tel Aviv?
Cafe Puaa in the Jaffa flea market is the most characterful pick, an all-day shakshuka room where the vintage furniture is for sale. For a chef-led weekend brunch, Ran Shmueli’s Claro in Sarona; for the dependable any-hour breakfast, Benedict on Rothschild Boulevard.
What is an Israeli breakfast?
It is a sharing spread rather than a single plate: eggs your way, a table of little salads, cheeses, spreads, bread and often shakshuka, with coffee and fresh juice. Almost every cafe in this ranking serves a version of it, and it is the default way Tel Aviv eats in the morning.
Where is the best shakshuka in Tel Aviv?
Bucke in the Old North is regularly named among the city’s best shakshukas, served with the classic small-salads spread. Cafe Puaa in Jaffa is the other strong pick, an all-day version in a bohemian flea-market room. Both are walk-in neighbourhood cafes rather than booking-only destinations.
Do you need a reservation for brunch in Tel Aviv?
For the destination rooms, yes, especially on Friday. Claro in Sarona and Meshek Barzilay’s Friday brunch in Neve Tzedek fill fast before Shabbat and reward a booking. The neighbourhood cafes, Bucke and Cafe Puaa among them, run walk-in, so arrive early on a weekend morning.
Is Friday or Saturday better for brunch in Tel Aviv?
Friday is the city’s big brunch morning, before everything slows for Shabbat in the afternoon, so the chef-led rooms put their best service on then. Saturday brunch exists too but runs quieter, with some kitchens on reduced hours, so check ahead if you are aiming for a specific table.
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