the new ones
Coffee
The fourth branch of the Swedish bakery that slowly conquered Tel Aviv (and not by storm, as befits the Scandinavians) was located in the Florentine quarter, one of the places with the most unrealized potential in the neighborhood (maybe the time has come?). It is a small branch, with 4-5 tables outside and a dominant pink color that is noticeable from a distance. You will find the airy cardamom and saffron pastries, the chocolate vacuum cleaner, Swedish cookies, Swedish sandwiches, and a lot of foreign vibes.
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Hel, Yes Pika’s cardamom pastries (Photo: Public Relations)
Margoza
In this case, too, it is another branch, this time for the Hifa family bakery Margoza (which already has two existing branches not far away – in the flea market and in the Nega complex), which opened about a month ago in the eastern part of Yedidia Frankel Street (between Aliya and Chelanov, meters from where it operated for many years the beloved Café Petit). There is no seating, but it has coffee, pastries, breads, baguettes, sandwiches, and full of smiles.
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everything stays in the family Margoza Photo: Anatoli Michaelou
coffee house
Yes, it’s true, we’ve already written about it more than once, but it’s the hottest new place in the neighborhood, so what can we do, it deserves another mention. This is of course the cafe of the comedian Tom Yaer and her partner Yaron Sion – Cafe Beit. The design, like the name of the place, is very homely – vintage sofas that give off a relaxed atmosphere, even one that invites you to rest your head and have a light nap. The menu is also original and ranges from smorbards (open Danish sandwiches) to Tripolitan couscous – everything is handmade on site. Hot, did we say?
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Rabi coffee
The new Rabi Cafe is a bit of an oddball in the Florentine zoo: it is located on the entrance floor of the new Beit Hana, the upgraded private community center which is its second branch (the first branch on Adam HaCohen Street has a cafeteria from “Eats”). The space of the cafe is divided into several parts – an interior space designed as a living room and a pastoral interior courtyard that are intended for members and subscribers of the house only – with an expanded menu and service of waiters for the tables; Along with additional tables in the front, on the street, which are intended for everyone else – with a menu of coffee, pastries, salads and sandwiches worth self-service. At 18:00 in the evening the restrictions are removed and the common people are also invited to the other parts, for a more nocturnal atmosphere of a bar-restaurant.
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Eazy coffee
The place of the mythical City Cafe on the corner of Florentin-Herzl, which closed a few months ago, was relatively quickly taken by Easy Cafe, which came straight from the parent branch in Elozorov – which is a bit of the same lady with a change of mantle. Tables inside and outside that are occupied mainly by laptop users and their assistants, beautiful sandwiches on the long bar and also a slightly more serious menu that includes breakfast, lunch including hot meat dishes and dinner. easy.
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her friends
A small, hipster cafe from the nearby kiosk (which we will also talk about soon), with a few small tables along a narrow bar and a charming little courtyard that is just the season to take advantage of it. The menu is limited but precise – a lot of coffee, small sandwiches, some cakes in the chuss and some kind of cookie on the way.
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The slightly less new ones and the slightly older ones
P.O.C.Cafe
The pok-cafe that opened at the end of 2018 started as a tiny place with a bar and one bench outside and became in its four years of operation a little more than that, with a whole section that houses comfortable sofas for a rabitza, a mini-courtyard-sukkah-patio on the road and a kind of informal takeover of more chairs around the corner of Kfar Giladi Street. The coffee is excellent and with it fresh pastries that are baked right in front, and also some sandwiches in rolls that are prepared on the spot. Oh, and there’s almost always a line too. Probably rightly so.
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Consider the queue POC coffee. Photo: Shlomi Yosef
Kyusko
The kiosk is probably the biggest coffee shop in the neighborhood space-wise, with large communal work tables, smaller tables and a balcony that overlooks the passers-by. It opened in 2018 but it kind of feels like it’s always been there, with coffee, pastries, delicious carrot cake and fresh small dishes that are prepared on the spot like 2-3 types of salads, muesli and sandwiches. Towards the evening you will also find wine drinkers alongside coffee drinkers, and on certain days there are also live performances of music, spoken word and other vegetables.
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Barbosa
Barbosa is a bread bar (yes, there is such a thing) with a large tabon where they bake on a daily basis mainly different types of bread, which you can buy on the spot. Along the way, it also serves as a small cafe with a few seats on the inside bar and on the street, with a limited and cute menu of coffee, pastries and several types of cookies.
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Frankel coffee
A small cafe that is mostly a window next to a laundromat, with a few benches outside that turn into impromptu work areas for much of the day. It opened a little over a year ago and offers delicious coffee (and cheap, relatively speaking), homemade cookies and lemon raspberry muffins that are worth a stop just for them.
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good coffee
One branch out of 6 branches nationwide of a chain of social cafes, which operate within the “Shakolo Tov” group that specializes in rehabilitation and training for people with various employment barriers. The goal: to train those people to work in the free market, and along the way provide us with delicious coffee, pastries and breakfasts. What is wrong?
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Aja
A little over a year ago, the cafe/vegan restaurant opened, then closed, reopened, changed opening hours and along the way also a concept. Although it’s all a bit confusing, it’s still a cute little corner with lots of potted plants and a menu that also boasts steamed eggplant and herb oil dishes or lemony tofu balls on lavender and vegetables. Currently the place is only open from the afternoon hours, but according to the resume we assume that this will change – so just make sure before you go out.
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Vegan food and pots Aja (Photo: Atar Toren)
Florentine House
A cafe located inside the only hotel(?) in the neighborhood. The veterans in the neighborhood probably remember that the only chef’s restaurant in the neighborhood once operated in this location (and even under the same name) – the Asian restaurant of chef Sharon Cohen. Since Cohen left, the place works for the well-being of the hotel’s customers and others – in the morning, coffee and pastries are sold there through a window open to the street, in the afternoon there are salads and sandwiches, and in the evening there is a bar, stand-up shows and lectures. Inside there is also a small gallery that not enough people know about that shows changing exhibitions which are not bad at all.
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Alon where he is
Yes, we know, we’ve gone too far. Although Alon’s store is not located inside Florentin per se, but for something like this, it is also worth paying a visit to the one east of Aliyah Street. Shabu, a confectioner, workshop instructor, waiter and generally cute person, opened the place in the new buildings on Chelanov Street about a year and a half ago and since then our Instagram has become much more colorful and appetizing. Along with the beautiful tart triangles (grapefruit lavender, salted caramel, St. Honoré and so on), the sweet and savory yeast pastries and the puffs (oh the puffs) there are also lots of beautiful tools for sale and even the occasional original artwork. And full of style.
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Dis is fine Tart Saint Honore of Alon Shabo. Photo: Alon Shabo
The veterans
Kasbah
The Kasbah is one of the oldest institutions in the neighborhood, with over a decade of activity and the smell of weed that carries far away. There are tables inside, there is a cute courtyard, there are lots of regular customers and there is a varied menu that includes coffee, salads, sandwiches and real food (pasta, hamburger, curry) that even travels in a Volt sometimes. The Kasbah is also a place that adapts itself to the hours of the day – brisk coffee drinkers in the morning, work meetings in the afternoon and young night clubbers in the evening. If that’s not an institution, then we don’t know what is.
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The cafe that was there even before there was Florentin, probably. Well, not really, but 17 years for a coffee shop doesn’t walk at all. Morning, noon, evening and night at the bar in the most central location in the neighborhood, and probably all of us have had the chance to hang out there sometime during the last 17 years and snack on some chips or a chunky nut bread sandwich.
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Nina
The Nina is a bit of the kasbah of the eastern part of the neighborhood – also in this case it is a cafe, restaurant and bar in one product. It was opened five years ago (time flies) by the owner of the City Cafe that operated opposite (a.k.a. the new Easy Cafe) and since then has not rested for a moment – from coffee and yeast cakes in the early morning hours to hamburgers and beer in the wee hours of the night.
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day and night Nina Photography: Eli Kabilo
Cafe Washington
We are not sure exactly when the botka opened at the end of Washington Boulevard on Selma Road, and there is a possibility that it has always been there, in one form or another. What is certain is that even with not completely regular opening hours, the small stage it stands on is always crowded with people (and a dog), and it is also the closest place to stock up on coffee when you get off at one of the bus stops. There are also sandwiches that are not bad at all, some symbolic cookies and freshly squeezed fruit juices.
Washington Boulevard corner Selma Road