Arale Pizza is a lively pizza bar located on a main street in Tel Aviv-Yafo, known for its thin-crust pizzas and casual atmosphere. It offers happy hour deals on pizza and beer, making it a popular spot for both lunch (with self-service) and dinner.
Customer Perception
Customers generally praise Arale Pizza for its tasty, thin-crust pizzas with generous toppings, good beer, and friendly service. The atmosphere is described as nice and buzzy, with reasonable prices and attractive happy hour specials. However, some customers have reported inconsistent availability of gluten-free options and issues with management regarding dietary accommodations. Restroom cleanliness has also been noted as an area for improvement.
Arale Pizza functions as both a pizza place and a bar. It offers pizza by the slice (a quarter of a tray) and was noted for being open and selling bread during Chol Hamoed Pessach (intermediate days of Passover), which is unusual for strictly kosher establishments.
Vegetarian options are available (e.g., Margarita pizza, salads, cauliflower).Gluten-free options are advertised but customer experiences indicate inconsistency in availability and potential cross-contamination, making it unreliable for those with strict gluten-free needs.
Best Times to Visit
Happy hour (until 8:30 PM) is ideal for deals on pizza and beer. Lunchtime offers a self-service experience. The restaurant can get busy, especially during peak hours or holidays, so prepare for potential waits.
4
I like thin pizza and in this place they make it very tasty with great toppings. They have happy hour until 8:30pm and then it’s 50% off on the pizza&beer.
It’s a super central location with nice atmosphere. the service is friendly and welcoming.
Summary: I saw reviews that this pizza place offers Gluten-free options but was highly disappointed by the experience, which resulted in us not being able to have the food we paid for due to poor management. My rating is based on the poor experience, but also optimism over the potential of the place. Prepare for a wait if you go when Yom Kippur ends.
The longer story:
I'd physically enquired about gluten-free options. I was told they had, and was directed to the QR code for the online menu to see options.
It was just after Yom Kippur so the self-order-'restaurant' became busy after I entered. I'd made a simple order of 1 GF margarita pizza - priced 69 shekels. The staff member was new so didn't know how to find it in the till system at first and had to call the owner. It's not great that the owner leaves somebody new in charge of a place without proper training, and the poor guy was busy and stressed. The owner should also take care to employ more staff knowing it will be a busy time. Just poor management.
After approx 10 minutes waiting I went to the front of the line to check how long it would be, to be told that suddenly they don't seem to have a gluten-free option and the kitchen had only just informed this (even though the cashier had specifically told them after my order to use fresh gloves, which I'd asked him to say). The line of customers was long so if I hadn't gone to ask, I'd probably be waiting until closing time! There was only 1 cashier working and a couple of kitchen staff cooking.
The new staff member then also didn't know how to process a refund and was told by the owner to take my details so he could do it himself another day. I'd actually paid by cash which he still needed help with, but basic service recovery for an issue that didn't start from the customer could've been to offer a cash refund in the first instance if it's simpler than a card refund.
After receiving the refund, we left hungry, and annoyed by the whole experience.
Decent service recovery would've been a sincere apology and offering at least a discount on a future visit or something, but no way would a new stressed worker have thought of this - all stems from the management who had been on the phone and had the authority to make that suggestion to the worker.
I haven't rated this a zero as I felt bad for the new staff member. He also spoke enough English to actually take my request for new gloves seriously enough to pass on the info. The general atmosphere in the 'restaurant' was buzzy and they have plenty of tables plus easy access to view an online menu which can be changed to English. So my 3 stars is more for the potential, certainly not the overall experience today. I imagine that even though they have a gluten-free option, it's unlikely a sterile kitchen - just my guess based on the experience, so I wouldn't recommend it to coeliac people. For now, I can't even recommend it to gluten-free people as they didn't actually have gluten-free options available. La Lasagne restaurant a few minutes walk away on Dizengoff definitely offers a gluten-free pizza. A real shame that I have to recommend another restaurant in this review
Came in good time so had space for our group which was 7 people.
Pizza very thin with lots of topping and quite large that non of us was able to finish his pizza.
The cauliflower was excellent and the beer was good.
Waiter was helpful and very friendly.
All in all we had good time and enjoyed the food.
Only negative point was that someone was smoking outside and from time to time the smoke was felt inside.
A really good pizza in Tel Aviv.
The vibe in the place is very good, the service is nice even though they almost didn’t manage the mass of people, the prices are reasonable and there are some happy hours for some beverages and drinks.
Must visit if you are around Dizengoff street even if you are not that hungry.
A nice Pizza place which also serves as a bar (well, the place is also called "pizza and bar" so, makes sense 😆).
Surprisingly, it was the only place around that area, that was open during "Chol Hamoed Pessach", and was selling bread!
I assume they are also open during Saturday.
Pizza is nice, unpretentious and decently priced for a quarter of a tray (2 slices): 19 for plane margarita, 22 for toppings and 25 for special/meat toppings. If you are super hungry 1 quarter won't be enough probably but for a light hunger it's perfect.
I was there around noon and it was self service, meaning you order and get the pizza at the counter. The 🍕man was nice and even gave us a free slice because the one we got wasn't really a perfect quarter.
The tables were clean and everything was very inviting, including the music.
The only reason I'm giving it a 4star review is the toilet upstairs: the smell from one of the stalls was unbearable and I had to leave the door open for air, so I won't die from the stench...
Also there was no paper to dry your hands so... the upstairs area needs some work and then the place will be a 5 star place!
Enjoy 🎉
