Chocolate, ice creams and pastries at Neve Tzedek neighborhood in Tel Aviv

   

Recently unique restaurants, bakery shops and sweets shops have opened amidst the houses of the neighborhood that preserves the first houses of the first Hebrew city.

In Tel Aviv's Neve Tzedek neighborhood, which is one of the city's most notable attractions, several businesses selling sweets have recently opened, including patisserie bakeries, ice cream shops and boutiques for chocolate and other sweets. Among the new business in this fields are the bakery shop "Hataim Metukim" ("Sweet Sins"), located on 67 Shabazi Street, offers hand made cakes, cookies, chocolates, meringues and more. There is also a designed coffee shop on site, in a beautiful and intimate yard.

Nearby, in 25 Shabazi Street lies the "Tartufo" Italian ice cream shop, which offers a variety of ice creams and sweets in 40 changing flavors, including ice creams without oil or sugar, soy ice cream, sorbet, peach and vodka ice cream and more.

Another ice cream shop named "Glida Savta" ("Grandma Ice Cream") is located in 9 Yechieli Street. Here there are 24 flavors that change daily out of a list of about 150 flavors made from natural ingredients. The shop also sells cakes and different kinds of coffee.

Neve Tzedek was the second neighborhood to be built outside the walls of Jaffa. It was founded in 1887 by a group of Jewish settlers. Its houses have been preserved to this day, and are an attraction to tourists interested in the architecture of those times and in historic tales of the lives of the first inhabitants of Tel Aviv. The area also has many museums and cultural centers that tell the neighborhood's story. Guided tours follow the alleys and paths of the neighborhood.


 


March 11, 2008


The Neve Tzedek neighborhood. Sweets, tales and history


Shlush Street. Photo: Michaeli, taken from Wikipedia


Sweets in Neve Tzedek. Belgian chocolate mousse


"Hataim Metukim". Meringues


Tiramisu. A hike following sweets