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Tel Aviv: Benny Hadayag

Old Port , Phone: 03-5440518

Reviewed by: Panda from UK, review #3626

When: 2010

Fabulous fish in lively surroundings!

We made a reservation for this restaurant based on strolling by earlier in the day and seeing a couple sharing an enormous and delicious whole fish on a platter and from a note in our guide book saying reservations were essential. There are lots of large restaurants around the revitalised port area and we wondered if we had really needed to book – until we got there in time for our table. The place was buzzing and the hostess had her hands full, turning away disappointed diners: this on a Wednesday in November.

It is not smart (hastily replaced paper placemats) and the service is fast rather than graceful, but the food is excellent. An order of a main course includes an array of starters which just keep coming: about 10 small dishes of eggplant dips, salsas, hummus, tapenades which were all lovely, plus larger dishes of fish in a spicy Moroccan sauce and a whole creamy split and baked eggplant. ‘Don’t eat too much bread!’ our waitress commanded - advice we were grateful for, especially when the whole fish arrived, which she did a part debone of at the table. You can specify grilled or baked. We had it grilled with olive oil and lemon and it was moist and perfectly cooked.

It is not cheap: main fish dishes on the standard menu are about 89ILS (including the starters) but the whole Sea Bar fish was over 200ILS (between us). It would easily have stretched to feed at least another diner.

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