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On Tu B'Av eve we open for one evening only. A menu specially created for this night. Black truffles, caviar, and raw ingredients that come to us only when the season allows. Each dish is a stop on a journey between north and south, between cold and heat, between silence and passion.

Restaurant a is a restaurant led by chef Yuval Ben Naria. In the a restaurant, Yuval Ben Naria presents the philosophy and practice behind the restaurant, presented to the audience through a minimalistic design in the space up to a menu with a wide range of options based on the return to the beginning, to Genesis, to the connection to nature and to instincts. The kitchen in a is built from the basic principles that come through gathering, hunting, fishing and the central use of fire as a cooking technique alongside the use of all raw materials, from tail to head. On the menu you will find different cooking techniques such as aging, preservation and fermentation and a combination of Japanese raw materials with flavor extraction techniques that allow the chef and the kitchen staff to produce the sixth taste, the umami. The menu is divided according to the different methods of handling it: raw, roasting, frying and cooking with iron. Looking forward to seeing you.

Popina is a modern chef's restaurant in Tel Aviv, which is already an integral part of the picturesque landscape of the Neve Tzedek neighborhood in Tel Aviv: the restaurant is housed in an antique building designed in clean lines with retro stained glass windows, stone walls and a green garden. Popina's uniqueness in the culinary landscape of Tel Aviv passes, as its name implies, through bringing the kitchen to the center of attention. The open kitchen, located in the center of the restaurant, allows diners to have a dialogue with the chef and his staff. The kitchen, which is the beating heart of every restaurant, becomes a significant part of a happening thanks to the original design concept of the Poppina restaurant.