Cafe Ice Cream Yonk (
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 Galuyot Street 23, adjacent to the Haifa
Flea Market
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on the same street. Their flagship dish is the
Romanian
kebab
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.
History
The restaurant was founded in 1948 as a tiny ice cream and popsicle factory, by Yehuda "Yonk" and Yocheved Milstein,
who had arrived from Poland. In the back of their factory Romanians from the neighborhood operated a little grill.
Impressed by the potential, the Milsteins changed their tiny factory into a Romanian restaurant, serving the cuisine they had learned from the tenants.
[ After Yehuda Milstein's death, the restaurant was continued and perfected by his son-in-law. In 2019 it is managed by the third generation of the founding family.]
References
External links
Official website
{{Restaurants in Israel
Restaurants in Haifa
Restaurants established in 1948
1948 establishments in Israel
Romanian restaurants
Ice cream brands
Romanian-Jewish culture in Israel