This is a list of restaurants in Israel. In 2007 there were about 4,400 food and beverage vendors in

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. By 2012 about 8000 such business were reported. With the highest percentage of vegans, Israel has many vegan restaurants. Israel's main American fast food chains include: McDonald's, Burger King, Domino's Pizza, Pizza Hut, Papa John's Pizza, The Cheesecake Factory and KFC (opens its first location in Israel in March 2019).

Restaurant chains

Israeli international chains

Aroma Espresso Bar Aroma Espresso Bar ( he, ארומה אספרסו בר) is an Israeli espresso and coffee chain with 162 branches around the country, and several branches in the United States, Canada, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. History Founded in 1994 on Hillel ...

– espresso and coffee chain with 162 branches in Israel and branches in the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

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Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

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Cofix Cofix ( he, קופיקס, a portmanteau of coffee and fix) is an Israeli coffee shop, bar and supermarket chain established in 2013 by Avi Katz, which uses a fixed price menu system. Most Cofix branches are in city centers, and other popular area ...

– Israeli coffee house chain selling most items for NIS 5 with locations dispersed over Israel and Russia *

Max Brenner Max Brenner ( he, מקס ברנר) is an Israeli multinational chocolate restaurant and retail brand headquartered in New York City, United States. The company operates more than 50 locations internationally, the majority (38) of which are in Au ...

– Israeli

chocolate Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cacao seed kernels that is available as a liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods. Cacao has been consumed in some form since at least the Olmec civ ...

shop and restaurant with 36 branches in Australia, Israel, Japan, Russia, and the US

Foreign chains operating in Israel

Burger King Burger King (BK) is an American-based multinational chain store, chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. Headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida, the company was founded in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida–based res ...

– operating 12 locations in 2023, out of 19,000 worldwide *

Domino's Pizza Domino's Pizza, Inc., trading as Domino's, is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain founded in 1960 and led by CEO Russell Weiner. The corporation is Delaware domiciled and headquartered at the Domino's Farms Office Park in Ann Arbor ...

– operating 57 locations around Israel out of 16,000 worldwide *

KFC KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) is an American fast food restaurant chain headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, that specializes in fried chicken. It is the world's second-largest restaurant chain (as measured by sales) after McDonald's, with 2 ...

– operates 16 branches in Israel out of 24,000 worldwide *

McDonald's McDonald's Corporation is an American Multinational corporation, multinational fast food chain store, chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechri ...

– 225 locations out of about 40,000 locations worldwide *

Papa John's Pizza Papa John's International, Inc., d/b/a Papa Johns, is an American pizza restaurant chain. It is the fourth largest pizza delivery restaurant chain in the United States, with headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky and Atlanta, Georgia metropolita ...

– operates 25 locations around Israel, out of 5,000 locations worldwide *

Pizza Hut Pizza Hut is an American multinational restaurant chain and international franchise founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas by Dan and Frank Carney. They serve their signature pan pizza and other dishes including pasta, breadsticks and dessert at d ...

– operating 43 locations around Israel out of 19,000 locations worldwide

National chains

Arcaffe Arcaffe ( he, ארקפה) is a chain of cafes in Israel with 29 outlets across the country. The chain was established in 1995 with the aim of bringing Italian espresso bars to Israel. Arcaffe launched its international activity by signing a cooperat ...

– is a chain of cafes in Israel with 29 outlets across the country *

Big Apple Pizza Big Apple Pizza ( he, ביג אפל פיצה) is an Israeli pizza chain with 10 branches throughout Israel, founded in 1986. History Big Apple Pizza was founded in 1986 by Haim Kedem, in the Jerusalem mall, Dorot Rishonim.

– New York City-style pizza chain with 10 locations around Israel *

Black Bar 'n' Burger Black Bar 'n' Burger is an Israeli hamburger and bar chain with 14 locations around the country. The chain provides 12 different burger varieties,

– burger chain with 14 locations across Israel *

Burgeranch Burgeranch, also known as Burger Ranch, ( he, בורגראנץ') is an Israeli fast-food chain. In 2010, the Burgeranch chain included 107 restaurants with over 1500 employees, competing primarily with McDonald's Israel and Burger King Israel ...

– fast-food chain with 107 restaurants and over 1500 employees in 2010 *

Burgers Bar Burgers Bar ( he, בורגרס בר ''Burgers Bar'') is an Israeli burger chain with 30 locations around Israel, and previously had three locations in the United States. History Burgers Bar opened their first location in 1999 in the German Colo ...

– sit-down, American-style bar restaurant with 30 locations across Israel *

Café Café Café Café (Hebrew: קפה קפה) is a chain of cafés in Israel. In February 2010, Café Café had 112 locations, making it the largest coffee chain in the country at the time, overtaking Aroma Espresso Bar. History Café Café was founded in ...

– Israeli coffee chain with about 65 locations. Went international for a while. *

Holy Bagel Holy Bagel ( he, הולי בייגל) is an Israeli restaurant chain which sells bagel sandwiches, salads, and other light fare. History Holy Bagel was founded in 1999 in Jerusalem as an American style bagel store, by Ari Dubin and Zev Wernick. ...

– bagel store chain with 11 locations around Israel *

Roladin Roladin or Roladin Bakery & Café ( he, רולדין) is the largest bakery chain in Israel, with 99 locations around Israel. History The concept for Roladin was created in 1987 by two brothers Kobi and Avi Hakak. Homemade cakes were sold from d ...

– largest bakery chain in Israel, with 43 locations around Israel

Regional, local, and small chains

Abu Hassan ''Abu Hassan'' (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns, J. 106) is a comic List of operas by Carl Maria von Weber, opera in one act by Carl Maria von Weber to a German libretto by , based on a story in ''One Thousand and One Nights''. It was composed between 1 ...

– Hummus restaurant with 3 locations in

Jaffa Jaffa, in Hebrew Yafo ( he, יָפוֹ, ) and in Arabic Yafa ( ar, يَافَا) and also called Japho or Joppa, the southern and oldest part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, is an ancient port city in Israel. Jaffa is known for its association with the b ...

Beit Haful A Beit (also spelled bait, ar, بيت , literally "a house") is a Meter (poetry), metrical unit of Arabic, Persian poetry, Iranian, Urdu poetry, Urdu and Sindhi poetry, Sindhi poetry. It corresponds to a line (poetry), line, though sometimes ...

– a chain of 9 Mediterranean restaurants in Southern Israel *

Café Rimon Café Rimon ( he, קפה רימון) is a kosher restaurant chain in Israel with three locations in Jerusalem, and a fourth one located in Beit Shemesh. History Café Rimon opened their first location in 1953 near Ben Yehuda Street (Jerusalem), B ...

– a chain of 2 locations in Jerusalem and 1 in Beit Shemesh *

HaShamen HaShamen ( he, השמן - ''lit.'' The Fat Guy) is an Israeli restaurant chain that sells Shawarma and other Middle Eastern food 7 branches across Israel. HaShamen opened its first restaurant in 2006. Concept HaShamen has corporate owned locat ...

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Shawarma Shawarma (; ar, شاورما) is a popular Middle Eastern dish that originated in the Ottoman Empire, consisting of meat cut into thin slices, stacked in a cone-like shape, and roasted on a slowly-turning vertical rotisserie or spit. Traditiona ...

chain with 7 locations around Israel *

Mike's Place Mike's Place ( he, מייקס פלייס) is an Israeli chain of bars, with three bars around the country. History In 1992 Michael Vigodda, a photojournalist, opened Mike's Place in downtown Jerusalem. Vigodda named the bar after another bar call ...

– American-style bar with 3 locations around Israel *

Papagaio Papagaio ( he, פאפאגאיו) is a Churrascaria, Brazilian steakhouse (''churrascaria'') restaurant, with two locations in Israel: one in Herzliya and one in Jerusalem. Papagaio, which opened their first location in Tel Aviv in 1997, is a Braz ...

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churrascaria A ''churrascaria'' () is a place where meat is cooked in ''churrasco'' style, which translates roughly from the Portuguese word for "barbecue". ''Churrascaria'' cuisine is typically (but not always) served ''rodízio'' style, where roving wa ...

-style restaurant with 2 locations around Israel

International chains that failed in Israel

The Cheesecake Factory The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated is an American restaurant company and distributor of cheesecakes based in the United States. The company operates 219 full-service restaurants: 206 under The Cheesecake Factory brand and 13 under the Grand Lux ...

– operated 8 locations around Israel until 2020. The Rishon store continues as ''The Factory''. *

Dunkin' Donuts Dunkin' Donuts LLC, also known as Dunkin' and by the initials DD, is an American multinational coffee and doughnut company, as well as a quick service restaurant. It was founded by Bill Rosenberg (1916–2002) in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 195 ...

– At one time operated 9 branches in Israel, then folded. *

Sbarro Sbarro, LLC is an American pizzeria chain that specializes in New York-style pizza sold by the slice and other Italian-American cuisine. In 2011, the company was ranked 15th in foreign sales among U.S.-based quick-serve and fast-casual compan ...

– entered Israel in 1995 and had 25 branches at the height of its success. *

Starbucks Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It is the world's largest coffeehouse chain. As of November 2021, the company had 33,833 stores in 80 c ...

– had 20 locations in the greater Tel Aviv region. Pulled out for lack of profitability. * Subway – had 23 locations around Israel.Eat fresh, eat kosher: Subway the largest U.S. kosher restaurant chain
– Retrieved 28 August 2014 Closed in 2004. *

Wendy's Wendy's is an American international fast food restaurant chain founded by Dave Thomas (1932–2002) on November 15, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio. Its headquarters moved to Dublin, Ohio, on January 29, 2006. As of December 31, 2018, Wendy's was the ...

– operated a few years from 1987, had just a few branches. * Wimpy – entered in the 1960s, folded in the 1980s.

Restaurants

Haifa & North

Diana restaurant Diana most commonly refers to: * Diana (name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Diana (mythology), ancient Roman goddess of the hunt and wild animals; later associated with the Moon * Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) ...

, oldest surviving restaurant in Nazareth. Was a chain for a while. *

Falafel HaZkenim Falafel HaZkenim () or Falafel Najala ( ar, فلافل نجلاء) is an Israeli restaurant and falafel stand, located in Wadi Nisnas, Haifa. Since foundation, guests are greeted with a free falafel ball dipped in tahini Tahini () or tahina ...

, Haifa – famous Israeli falafel restaurant. Briefly had a branch. *

MacDavid MacDavid (Hebrew: מק דויד) is an Israeli fast food brand, that started in 1978 in Tel Aviv. After growing to a peak of 28 branches, many branches have closed, leaving one location, in Haifa. History The original branch was opened in 1978 o ...

– started as a hamburger restaurant in Tel Aviv, grew to 28 branches nationwide, now one restaurant in Haifa. * HaOgen, Haifa – founded 1942, this is Israel's oldest pub if not its oldest restaurant *

Yonk Cafe Ice Cream Yonk (Hebrew language, Hebrew: קפה גלידה יונק), founded in 1948, is one of Israel's oldest restaurants, located in Haifa. While the name implies otherwise, it is a Romanian grill. The restaurant is located at Kibbutz Galu ...

– Romanian grill since 1948 in Haifa

Tel Aviv & Center

* Blue Sky by Meir Adoni – fine dining at the

Carlton Tel Aviv Carlton Tel Aviv is a five-star hotel in Tel Aviv, Israel, specialized in business travel. It is located near Atarim Square, in the immediate vicinity of Tel Aviv Port and the beach. It offers a view of the Mediterranean Sea. History and archit ...

* Lumina by Meir Adoni – fine dining at the

* Mashya – fine dining in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

Pastel A pastel () is an art medium in a variety of forms including a stick, a square a pebble or a pan of color; though other forms are possible; they consist of powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those use ...

– fine dining at the

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tel Aviv Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות ''Muzeon Tel Aviv Leomanut'') is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art from Israel and aroun ...

Herbert Samuel Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, (6 November 1870 – 5 February 1963) was a British Liberal politician who was the party leader from 1931 to 1935. He was the first nominally-practising Jew to serve as a Cabinet minister and to beco ...

. Kosher fine-dining in Herzliya. Was an Israeli chain of 3 restaurants. *

Spaghettim Spaghettim (Hebrew for spaghettis, Hebrew spelling: ספגטים) is an Italian cuisine restaurant in Petah Tikva, Israel. It was formerly part of a chain of 17 restaurants. The restaurant is located at HaSivim Street 18 in Kiryat Matalon. The foo ...

– Italian cuisine in

Petach Tikva Petah Tikva ( he, פֶּתַח תִּקְוָה, , ), also known as ''Em HaMoshavot'' (), is a city in the Central District of Israel, east of Tel Aviv. It was founded in 1878, mainly by Haredi Jews of the Old Yishuv, and became a permanent set ...

. Was a chain with 17 restaurants nationwide in 2010.

Jerusalem & South

* Anna Italian Café – located in the

Ticho House Ticho House ( he, בית טיכו, ''Beit Tikho'') is a historical home in Jerusalem, now a museum administered as part of the Israel Museum. It was one of the first homes built outside the Old City walls in the 19th century. History Ticho Hou ...

, a historic home in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

that is a branch of the

Israel Museum The Israel Museum ( he, מוזיאון ישראל, ''Muze'on Yisrael'') is an art and archaeological museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world’s leading encyclopa ...

. * Barood – bar-restaurant in Jerusalem serving

Sephardic cuisine Sephardic Jewish cuisine is an assortment of cooking traditions that developed among the Sephardi Jews. Those of this Iberian origin who were dispersed in the Sephardic Diaspora ultimately became the Eastern Sephardim and North African Sepha ...

The Eucalyptus The Eucalyptus ( he, האקליפטוס) is a Jerusalem fine dining restaurant. It is noted for its use of biblical ingredients and the use of wild plants and roots foraged from the nearby hillsides, and for preparing traditional and innovative Lev ...

– kosher meat restaurant in Jerusalem * La Régence – fine dining at the

King David Hotel The King David Hotel ( he, מלון המלך דוד, Malon ha-Melekh David; ar, فندق الملك داود) is a 5-star hotel in Jerusalem and a member of The Leading Hotels of the World. Opened in 1931, the hotel was built with locally qua ...

in Jerusalem *

Sami VeSusu Sami VeSusu is an List of restaurants in Israel, Israeli restaurant serving Romanian cuisine at 179 Ohelei Keidar Street in Beersheba, inside the city's municipal market. History The restaurant was established in April 1970. It was named after a ...

– Romanian cuisine restaurant at the municipal market of

Beersheba Beersheba or Beer Sheva, officially Be'er-Sheva ( he, בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, ''Bəʾēr Ševaʿ'', ; ar, بئر السبع, Biʾr as-Sabʿ, Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. ...

Former

Café Hillel Café Hillel ( he, קפה הלל) is a cafe, espresso bar, and sandwich bar chain in Israel established in 1998 by Koby and Yossi Sherf that has over 25 national locations. The German Colony branch of café was the site of the 2003 Café Hillel bo ...

– cafe,

espresso bar A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café is an establishment that primarily serves coffee of various types, notably espresso, latte, and cappuccino. Some coffeehouses may serve cold drinks, such as iced coffee and iced tea, as well as other non-ca ...

, and sandwich bar chain that closed down in 2003
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Romanian cuisine Romanian cuisine () is a diverse blend of different dishes from several traditions with which it has come into contact, but it also maintains its own character. It has been mainly influenced by Turkish and a series of European cuisines in partic ...

. * Mul Yam – restaurant located in

Tel Aviv Port Tel Aviv Port ( he, נמל תל אביב, Namal Tel Aviv) is a commercial and entertainment district in northwest Tel Aviv, Israel along the Mediterranean Sea. History in 1933 the Levant Fair was opened next to the waterfront area that would s ...

, founded in 1995; burned down in 2015 *

Nizahon Restaurant Nizahon Restaurant (מסעדת הניצחון) was a Romanian grill in Ashkelon and one of Israel's oldest restaurants. The restaurant did not have kashrut certification and was open on Shabbat. History Nizahon was founded in 1949, by Yeshayahu "S ...

– Romanian grill in Ashkelon, founded in 1949, closed in 2019 *

Penguin Penguins (order (biology), order List of Sphenisciformes by population, Sphenisciformes , family (biology), family Spheniscidae ) are a group of Water bird, aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: on ...

– family restaurant from 1940 to 2022 in Nahariya

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