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Mashya, Tel Aviv: Kosher Modern-Israeli at the Mendeli Street Hotel
Chef Yossi Shitrit's kosher dining room is the polished face of new-Israeli cooking — Levantine, precise, and (quietly, importantly) under a Rabbinate hechsher.
Tel Aviv, Israel
Mashya proves the cliche wrong: yes, kosher Tel Aviv can plate at the level of the city's secular best.
The smoked eggplant, the lamb shoulder, the labneh-with-honey course — all observant, all extraordinary.
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