Top Fish and Seafood Restaurants in Tel Aviv: 8 Places Where You Can Taste the Sea

From the promenade to Jaffa, from the breeze of the port to a Greek taverna facing the sea, Tel Aviv knows how to serve fish and seafood the right way. These are the places where plates arrive with salt in the air, a cold glass in hand, and an atmosphere that feels close to a vacation.

The Israeli summer demands a precise combination of sea saltiness, fresh fish landed this morning from the net, and an atmosphere that makes time stand still. We’ve gathered the top fish restaurants in Tel Aviv for you, all sought-after places on the waterfront, the kind our users keep booking tables at, so you can enjoy the perfect seaside experience. Have you already reserved a table facing the waves?

And in practice, what’s worth knowing

1. Chacoli

Chacoli is not “just another restaurant by the sea.” This is a chef’s restaurant sitting in one of the most beautiful locations in the city, right on the promenade, bringing to the table a Mediterranean cuisine that’s vibrant, elegant, and effortless. Behind the kitchen stands chef Yarden Shai, who leads the place with a skilled hand and plenty of color, movement, and flavors that naturally connect to the sea.

The experience here starts before the first bite: an open space, beachside light, a bar that feels right for sunset hours, and a menu that moves between fish, seafood, starters, sharing plates, and a pace of a meal that can last much longer than you planned. At lunch, a celebration awaits you at an affordable price in the form of the Andalusian platter, and in the evening Chacoli opens up to a wider world of sea, wine, and Tel Aviv atmosphere.

Dishes worth checking on the menu: fresh squid and onions in charcoal, montaditos fish confit with preserved lemon and shushka, fritto misto from whatever was caught that day at sea.

📍Address: Herbert Samuel Wharf 3, Tel Aviv-Jaffa

2. Manara TLV

Manara TLV brings to Tel Aviv the kosher side of a fish restaurant by the sea. It sits on the Yarkon, very close to the shoreline, and manages to create an experience that feels elegant on one hand and accessible, warm, and full of life on the other. This is a place suitable for a romantic dinner, a family meal, or a table of friends who want to open a bottle of wine, order a few dishes to share, and stay a bit longer.

The kitchen here leans on fish, vegetables, herbs, and clean Mediterranean flavors. Manara TLV manages to cater to an audience looking for a kosher fish restaurant in Tel Aviv, without giving up on a real dining experience.

Dishes worth checking on the menu: zucchini flower to start, sea bass in pastis butter with mashed potatoes, and grouper cigar with tahini and schug.

📍Address: Hayarkon 115, Tel Aviv-Jaffa

3. Marina Dallal

Marina Dallal is the place where Tel Aviv allows itself to feel a bit like the Riviera. Sailboats, the clinking of masts, sunset light on the water, a glass of white wine, and the feeling of a small European vacation that landed at the marina. Beyond the beautiful view, the Marina offers a complete setting for a meal built around the sea, elegance, and a more relaxed pace.

Marina Dallal’s kitchen continues the world of Beit Dallal, but turns toward a more open and bright direction: Mediterranean seaside flavors, delicate ingredients, cocktails and wines that sit well with the sea breeze. This is a restaurant suitable for a date, a celebratory dinner, or any moment when you want to feel far from the city, without actually leaving it.

Dishes worth checking on the menu: oysters on ice, Saint Maure brûlée, and lemon butter and thyme pasta with black caviar from the Dan River.

📍Address: Eliezer Peri 10, Marina, Tel Aviv-Jaffa

4. Yassou

Yassou makes the list because sometimes a fish restaurant doesn’t have to look like a classic fish restaurant. It can be a cheerful Greek taverna, with music, a terrace facing the sea, ouzo, mezze, and fish that arrive at the table in an open and relaxed atmosphere.

Chef Avi Biton leads a Greek Mediterranean kitchen here that understands the power of a full table. Start with small dishes, continue to fish and seafood plates, and the meal progresses at a happy pace, with drinks and plenty of energy. Yassou is especially suitable for an evening with friends, a small celebration, or anyone who wants fish with music and no frills.

Dishes worth checking on the menu: Lesbos ceviche with raw sea bass, sea fish carpaccio, and grilled sea bream with crispy potatoes.

📍Address: Hayarkon 105, Tel Aviv-Jaffa

5. Yulia TLV

Yulia TLV is one of the restaurants most associated with Tel Aviv Port, and that’s exactly its strength. Inside awaits a large, spacious bar, outside a terrace that feels as close as possible to the sea, and in between a menu that leans on fresh fish, seafood, pastas, and seasonal ingredients.

This is a restaurant where it’s easy to open a table at almost any hour: morning by the sea, long lunch, evening with wine, or a family meal without too many complications. Yulia TLV works with the rhythm of the port, with people who come to see the water, eat well, and feel Tel Aviv in its most direct format.

Dishes worth checking on the menu: sashimi with citrus vinaigrette and Greek yogurt, fish & chips from changing fish, blue crabs in butter, garlic, and white wine sauce

📍Address: Hangar 2, Tel Aviv Port

6. Shtsupak

Shtsupak is a Tel Aviv institution in the best sense of the word. The place is a restaurant that knows exactly why people keep coming back: fish, seafood, salads to start, good sauces, and the feeling of a generous, simple, and happy meal.

The meal here starts with a variety of salads that arrive at the table, and from there you can go to fresh fish, shrimp, calamari, mussels, or whatever you feel like at that moment. There’s something direct and right about Shtsupak: no posing, no unnecessary noise, just a full table and food that speaks a language everyone understands.

Dishes worth checking on the menu: seared scallops on the plancha, grilled trout served with baked potatoes, and Provençal shrimp (ask for the spicy version).

📍Address: Ben Yehuda 256, Tel Aviv-Jaffa

7. Villa Maree Tel Aviv

Villa Maree Tel Aviv brings its beach story directly to the promenade. It started as a dream of good food facing the sea, and in its Tel Aviv version it continues to cook with the same approach: plenty of hospitality, plenty of sea, plenty of plates that go well with a cold cocktail.

The menu moves between fish, seafood, bistro, Italian touches, and dishes suitable for a wide table. This is a place suitable for a meal facing the sunset, a small event, a long brunch, or an evening when you simply want to sit close to the water without giving up on a rich menu and a dining atmosphere.

Dishes worth checking on the menu: Caprese salad with halloumi, sea fish carpaccio from the daily catch, and black linguine with seafood.

📍Address: Herbert Samuel Wharf 88, Tel Aviv-Jaffa

8. Shabtai HaYafe

Shabtai HaYafe is Jaffa on a plate. Alleyways, flea market, ouzo, fish and seafood, with an authentic Greek atmosphere. It’s simply there, veteran, alive, happy, the kind that understands that good food starts with fresh ingredients and a table that opens slowly.

The kitchen leans on daily catch, ingredients from Greece and local produce, and the whole experience feels like a meal that can easily flow into a long lunch or a Jaffa evening. Order a few starters, fish or seafood, raise a glass, and let the place do its thing.

Dishes worth checking on the menu: deep-fried red mullet, shrimp hraime, and crispy calamari, all served with a selection of mezze on the side.

📍Address: HaTzorfim 38, Tel Aviv-Jaffa

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