Kiryat Ono and Savyon have become one of the most interesting culinary areas in the center in recent years, with chef restaurants, Asian kitchens, pizza, meat, cocktails and cafes. Here are 10 recommended restaurants worth saving for your next meal in the area.
Something good is happening in Kiryat Ono. In recent years, the city and the surrounding area have been filling up with restaurants, bars and cafes that bring much more variety, drawing crowds from neighboring cities as well. More is on the way: AKA is expected to open a branch in Kiryat Ono and join other new names marking the city as an increasingly established culinary destination.
Meanwhile, there are already plenty of good reasons to go out and eat here: smokehouse and meats, Thai cuisine, pizza and cocktails, bistro, Greek food, bars and cafes. We’ve gathered the places worth knowing now in Kiryat Ono and Savyon, for breakfast, dinner, a date or an evening with friends.
1. Taurus Smokehouse
The smell of smoke is pretty much how the evening starts at Taurus. The restaurant in Savyon is built around smoked and grilled meats, with plenty of fire, time and patience behind the plates. This isn’t a place you come to for a quick bite on the go, but one suited to an evening where you arrive hungry, open up a table and let the meat lead. The smoke, grill and cuts give the place a distinctly different character from other restaurants in the area.
The approach is especially suited to a group or a meal where you want to share. Dishes come to the center, glasses fill up, and the pace is a bit slower and right for a meal you stay through. If you’re looking for a meat restaurant in Savyon, you get an alternative here with a clear smokehouse language, without needing to leave the area.
Dishes worth checking on the menu: Dak Dak – beef carpaccio with gremolata, fried mint leaves and avocado cream; entrecote skewer on deep chicken axis; Lamb Meets Leaf – cucumbers, red onion, chili, mixed greens, house spice and vinaigrette.
📍 Address: HaShikma 1, Savyon.
2. Jonz Pizza Bar
Jonz does something easy to connect with: it takes pizza and turns it into a full evening. This isn’t just a place you come to for a tray, but a pizza bar with cocktails, wine and additional dishes, that feels natural to arrive at for a date or with a few friends and let the meal roll on. The space combines restaurant seating with bar character, so you can start with a slice and finish long after the first glass.
At the center of the table are handmade pizzas, and alongside them a wine and cocktail menu that makes it clear the idea is an outing, not just a quick meal. This is exactly the kind of place that works when no one wants an overly formal evening, but also doesn’t want to settle for takeaway. On Mondays there’s also an evening of large New York-style pizzas, a detail worth checking close to your reservation since such formats may change.
Dishes worth checking on the menu: Margherita pizza – a classic you have to try; Havana croquettes with habanero cream and Parmesan; fish tartare with herb tzatziki, chopped almonds and bruschetta.
📍 Address: Shlomo HaMelech 2, Kiryat Ono.
3. Patricks Kiryat Ono
Patricks is the more nighttime side of Kiryat Ono. The bar-restaurant on Academic Boulevard is built around music, sound, drinks and a tropical garden, so the feel is first and foremost of going out. This is the place to arrive at when you’re looking for an evening with friends, a beer or cocktail and food that lets you stay another round instead of finishing the evening right after the main course.
Unlike a bistro or cafe, here the pace picks up as the evening progresses. Tables of friends, music and glasses on the bar are part of the place’s character, so it’s especially suited to those looking for a night out close to home without heading into the city. Patricks also adds to the list something that’s been missing in the area for years: a bar-restaurant where food and drink come as one package.
Dishes worth checking on the menu: Cigar in a sack pulled for a starter; fish and chips from fresh salmon fingers and waffle chips for a main; crispy wings in BBQ sauce next to the beer.
📍 Address: Academic Boulevard 2, Kiryat Ono.
4. Mila Savyon
Mila is one of the restaurants that lets you start in the area with a morning coffee and return in the evening for something completely different. The kosher bistro at G City Savyon operates throughout the day with a seasonal Mediterranean kitchen, and its line moves between breakfasts and fish, handmade pastas and dishes more suited to evening hours.
The big advantage here is flexibility. You can arrive for a long breakfast, lunch, a date or an evening with wine and cocktails, without the place feeling like it belongs to just one situation. The bistro allows on one hand a proper meal, and on the other keeps a pleasant, not overly ceremonial pace. If you’re looking for a restaurant in Savyon that will suit both a family meal and a couple’s evening, this is exactly the zone where Mila plays.
Dishes worth checking on the menu: Stracciatella with honey, blueberries, berries and basil oil; crispy fish salad with sea bass in tempura; fettuccine with brown butter, marjoram and Manchego cheese.
📍 Address: HaShikma 1, Savyon.
5. Sorin
Sorin brings Thai-inspired cuisine to Savyon, and you feel it from the moment you start loading up the table. The direction here leans on the flavors associated with Thai cooking, but passes through a contemporary interpretation and local ingredients. The result suits the way we love to eat at an Asian restaurant: not ordering one dish per diner, but opening several plates, passing them around, tasting and building the meal as you go.
That’s also why Sorin works as well for a date as it does for a group. There’s enough movement between dishes to make the meal interesting, and the kitchen gives room for spicy, sour, sweet and fresh to meet on the same table. Those looking for Thai in the Ono Valley area no longer need to automatically head west.
Dishes worth checking on the menu: Kong Kat Yam – shrimp seared on a wok in Thai chili peanut sauce; Som Tam salad; Gang Kha Ti with tofu – red curry stew with Thai pumpkin, nam pla and coconut milk, served with sticky rice.
📍 Address: HaShikma 1, Savyon.
6. Greek Salon Savyon Junction
At Greek Salon it’s hard to separate the food from what’s happening around it. The new branch at Savyon Junction continues the group’s concept, with Greek Mediterranean cuisine, plenty of plates coming to the center, alcohol and music that puts the table in the mood for going out, not just a meal. Behind the concept stands chef Guy Peretz, and the branch opened in the summer at the Zim Urban Ono Center complex.
This is a place easy to imagine for a birthday, a friends’ meal or an evening where you don’t plan to head home right after dessert. The food is built for a table that shares: mezze, salads, fish dishes and familiar Greek flavors, with music and glasses part of the picture. If you want an evening that starts with a meal and can continue in a happier direction, this is one of the standout addresses on the list.
Dishes worth checking on the menu: Pinarli – Greek boat pastry with spinach, chard, fried onion, feta and oregano; pickled sardines with green and red onion, chili and radishes; dolmades – vine leaves on tzatziki.
📍 Address: Carmel 5, Or Yehuda, Savyon Junction, Zim Urban Ono Center complex.
7. Cafe LaLush Kiryat Ono
Cafe LaLush is one of the addresses suited to days when not everyone around the table wants the same thing. The kosher cafe in Kiryat Ono keeps an Italian direction with pastas, pizzas from the tabun, fish and salads, and at the same time also operates as a cafe with breakfasts. In other words, you can arrive for coffee and a relaxed breakfast and stay for a meal, or skip breakfast and sit down for lunch with pizza and pasta at the center.
This makes it an especially good choice for families, a midday meeting or a group where one wants salad, another pasta and someone’s already thinking about pizza. The atmosphere is less demanding than an evening restaurant, but the menu is broad enough not to feel like just a coffee stop.
Dishes worth checking on the menu: Parmesan omelet sandwich with cream cheese and vegetable salad on the side; spicy plate and fresh focaccia; sea bass fillet on cauliflower with spinach, garlic, roasted pepper and white wine.
📍 Address: Academic Boulevard 2, Kiryat Ono.
8. Yono
Yono is one of the restaurants adding another layer of local nightlife to Kiryat Ono, the kind suited both to a couple’s meal and a meetup with friends. This is a place you can mark for an evening when you want to go out to eat without too much ceremony, sit comfortably and stay around the table even after the first plates are cleared.
Within this list, Yono fits exactly into the space between a neighborhood restaurant and an evening out: an address worth remembering when you’re looking for a spot in the area for a good meal, a drink and some time outside the house.
📍 Address: Derech Rafael Eitan 1, Kiryat Ono.
9. Symphony
Symphony takes the cocktail evening slot in Kiryat Ono. The place combines a bar with a kitchen, and its direction is especially suited to a date or going out with friends where the drink matters no less than the plate. Instead of moving from restaurant to bar, you can stay around the same table, start with food and continue to another cocktail as the evening progresses.
The menu goes along with this character, with dishes suited to opening next to a glass and continuing to a meal. Among other things you can find Shaytel beef carpaccio and polenta chips, alongside cocktails that bring in the nighttime and slightly more festive side of the place.
📍 Address: Derech Rafael Eitan 1, Kiryat Ono.
10. Dopa Cafe
Dopa is the newer kind of neighborhood spot that doesn’t settle for one definition. It operates within Dopa House of Dopamine, a complex that combines a wellness world with a cafe, and adds to the list a place more suited to a light stop, coffee and meeting than a heavy dinner. The complex is located on Yitzhak Navon Street in Kiryat Ono.
Precisely within a list with many evening restaurants, there’s also value in a place like this. You’re not always looking for a two-hour table; sometimes you want coffee after a workout, a midday meetup or a neighborhood spot to stop at without turning it into a project. Dopa gives that option and expands the definition of culinary outing in the area a bit.
📍 Address: Yitzhak Navon 4, Kiryat Ono.
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