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The once Ben Nahum Hotel is today the place to be: Shampina

July 26th, 2011 | Comments Off

The once Ben Nahum Hotel is today the place to be: Shampina

Last Saturday afternoon I did visit an afternoon-party at the Shampina Bar on Rothschild Boulevard 32. The place was crowded and swinging with the ‘to be seen folks’ of Tel Aviv. You will find the Shampina in the once Ben Nahum Hotel, the beautiful building with this special roof-top on the corner of Rothschild Boulevard and Allenby Street, designed in 1921 by Judah Magidovitch, Tel Aviv’s first city engineer. Last September restoration works started on the … Read entire article »

Filed under: architecture, city, dance, going out, history, life, restaurants, restoration

Photo’s of Tel Aviv Fever editor in Dutch Playboy Magazine

March 7th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Photo’s of Tel Aviv Fever editor in Dutch Playboy Magazine

    Tel Aviv Fever editor Ed Hofschreuder was asked to provide photo’s of Tel Aviv to illustrate an article about the Israel/Tel Aviv experience of Dutch Playboy Magazine editor Jan Heemskerk, chief editor Marcel Langedijk and friend Joel Fresco under the title: “Playboy’s Wild Weekends” It is a fun story with mixed feelings of the three, but the overall question, “Is Israel no fun?” is answered in the article: “Are you crazy? Israel is fantastic. They are only a bit fanatic about … Read entire article »

Filed under: city, dance, featured, food, going out, life, music, personal, photography, restaurants, TA Fever

Just some random facts about Tel Aviv

February 19th, 2011 | Comments Off

Just some random facts about Tel Aviv

January 2011… Population : 403.000; Academic institutions: 9; Museums: 23; Theaters: 9; Dog parks: 40; Dog owners: 20.000; Gyms: 80; Bars: 450; Sushi restaurants: 100 (the 3rd. highest concentration per capita in the world ); Private investigators: 108; Matchmaking services: 18; Public libraries: 22; Bookstores: 91; Cafes: 332; Street lamps: 63.312 and 151 outdoor sculptures… We think you should come to see it all with your own eyes. Even the (many) dogs… ;-) … Read entire article »

Filed under: books, city, future, going out, history, life, museum, restaurants, TA Fever

Female chefs of Tel Aviv in New York Times

September 18th, 2010 | Comments Off

I can dream, think, daydream about (vegetarian) cooking books, food, restaurants, ingredients AND cooking, so I was intrigued by the article “The Real Balabustas of Tel Aviv” by Anthony Grant in The New York Times Style Magazine online. Just like in the Netherlands a chef (de cuisine) is in about 99% a man… At home women do the cooking, but in restaurants kitchens most of the time a man is in charge. Strange… The article shows us a new generation of female chefs that is hitting the stoves. I like that. I am sure that this female touch can do magic for this world of cooking. A few of these women in Tel Aviv are: Tamar Cohen-Tzedek in Cucina Tamar, Einav Berman in Asif, and Rima Olvera with her her home kitchen in the Florentin … Read entire article »

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High level dinner in Tel Aviv

May 21st, 2009 | Comments Off

I know this is not for everybody. No, not even for me… ;-) But I think Tel Aviv is one of the best places for this Dinner in the Sky. Originally from cold and wet Belgium ;-) , you can have a dinner,  thoroughly strapped to your seat and a chef doing his thing high up in the sky. In Israel you don’t have to bother about an weather insurance. If you are not Dutch (or Belgian) don’t listen to the reporter, but (Dutch language video exchanged for English one). Watch the fun and view (and wish the people bete’avon and a safe landing): The builders also put pictures on their website: HERE The Belgian Embassy in Tel Aviv put it on their site too: HERE ;-D … Read entire article »

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Tel Aviv hotel ranked 23rd in magazine’s hot list!

April 26th, 2009 | 6 Comments

Conde Nast Traveller Magazine ranks boutique ‘Hotel Montefiori’ (at Montefiori Street no.36) as one of the top 70 hotels in the world for 2009: rank no.:..23 !!! The building, designed in 1922 in the ‘Eclectic’ style, was restored in 2000/2001. In 2002, Yoram and Elana Wakshlak opened in the building on the 2nd and 3rd floor the ‘Time for Art Center’ (a gallery). On the first floor they opened the restaurant ‘Artichoke’. The restaurant would finance the facility’s artistic activities. It soon became clear that this would not be possible and ‘with a heavy heart’, they closed the place after two and half years. After some inside restoration, ‘Hotel Montefiore’, just ..12 rooms, opened it’s doors on the 2nd and 3rd floor. The restaurant, on the first floor, is run today by … Read entire article »

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