Chef Orel Kimchi's Popina restaurant has been a prominent fixture in Tel Aviv's Neve Tzedek neighborhood for 12 years, offering a refined dining experience.
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Published: 7mo ago
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Opening times
Monday: 6:00 – 11:00 PM
Tuesday: 6:00 – 11:00 PM
Wednesday: 6:00 – 11:00 PM
Thursday: 6:00 – 11:00 PM
Friday: 6:00 – 11:00 PM
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: 6:00 – 11:00 PM
Poppina's uniqueness in the Tel Aviv culinary landscape goes, as its name suggests, through bringing the kitchen to the center of attention.
Chef Orel Kimchi's Popina is known for its innovative and creative Israeli cuisine, utilizing fresh, seasonal ingredients. The restaurant is highly regarded within Tel Aviv's culinary scene.
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Chef Orel Kamahi's upscale restaurant in Neve Tzedek, known for its creative, seasonally-driven dishes and elegant ambiance. Open kitchen.
Customer perception
Reviews are mixed. Some praise the impeccable service, creative dishes, and cocktails, while others find the food underwhelming and overpriced for the quality, particularly the non-vegan options. The vegan tasting menu received particularly negative feedback.
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Located in the charming Neve Tzedek neighborhood, a short distance from the sea. Offers a tasting menu.
Cuisine highlights
Dietary options
Vegan options available (tasting menu)
Best times to visit
Reservations recommended, especially for dinner.
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Had a great time with the tasting menu with the wine tastings. My husband had meat and I had the vegetarian. It is rare to find a place that has a vegetarian tasting menu so we were very happy to come here. I think they also do vegan.
The staff were so sweet and made sure we had everything we needed in time.
We weren't blown away by the food but we enjoyed it immensely.
2.0
Epic fail. Went out for a Valentine's day dinner with friends. And all the dishes, all of them, were just... Not what it should be.
I ordered rib eye steak, 600gr, medium. It aopeared to be 1cm thick well-done peace of dry meat. Spouse asked for beef cheek and it arrived as sort of a burger with stewed teared beef fibers. Totally every dish was either obviously bad or just a weird combination of absolutely not matching ingredients.
The service is good (for Israel). Waiters are friendly and helpful.
The staff was even trying to offer some desserts as an excuse, but man.... he was just spreading too strong scent of alcohol already (half an hour after opening!) that managed to ruin the overall impression finally.
To their credit, they gave us a 50% discount.
Sorry, but this place is totally not worth visiting.
5.0
I highly recommend this place.
We did the tasting menu which was a brilliant choice.
The service was impeccable. Waiter was patient and knowledgeable about the dishes.
Cocktail was really good. Most similar places make very boring cocktails so it was nice for a change.
I think the duck liver alongside the ravioli was the best dish in the tasting menu.
Only downside was the steak which tasted nice but was almost well-done (see photo).
I would definitely return.
1.0
I actually never thought I would give such a famous restaurant in the foodies community such a low rating... but besides the environment everything was really lacking. I came here with my girlfriend to celebrate my birthday and I was actually very excited but left in mixed feelings. can't understand what the hole bragg was about...
The food was lacking flavor I literally went to eat a sandwich on Rothschild after this experience and it was a lot better then this place.
Sorry but I will not be returning here.
5.0
Very good food (especially the sea food black pizza pizza!) and interesting ingredients. Service was good starting from the hostess, we had a reservation and there was a little holdback so they gave us champagne while we wait as this kind of restaurants should do. Prices are reasonable for a chef restaurant. The atmosphere in the restaurant is also nice.
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