Really great food with very friendly staff. We had the calamari to share as a starter and then the sausage casserole and beef bourguignon as mains. All delicious.
Menza
- Price $$$$
- See Menu
- Vegan Friendly
- Smoking Area
- Outside Seating Area
- Open on Saturday
- Non-kosher
A Home for Accessible, Creative Cuisine
In Latin, Menza means a house of food. Located among the art galleries and boutique shops of Betsalel Street in downtown Jerusalem, Menza restaurant in Jerusalem is exactly that, open 7 days a week from morning until the last customer, working to bring its patrons fresh, high-quality, creative cuisine from breakfast to dinner in a casual, accessible atmosphere.
The Menu
Every day at Menza starts with a rich breakfast featuring a gauntlet of selections from the world’s best morning cuisines — frittata, croque monsieur, french toast, bacon and eggs, sandwiches, muesli, fresh-baked pastries and of course the classic Israeli breakfast spread. Stop by on Saturday for brunch and get special prices on various cocktails alongside your standard hot and cold drinks.
The brasserie-esque lunch and dinner menu presents a lot of tough choices. Their hamburger — on a homemade bun with your choice of toppings — may be the best in the city, and there’s no shortage of other amazing options for meat-lovers. The classic entrecote steak is certainly some prime choice beef, the baby back ribs fall right off the bone and the corned beef sandwich is executed to perfection.
However, you also don’t want to miss out on Menza’s specialty — fresh takes on Mediterranean classics like crab risotto, gnocchi with seafood, lasagna, seared tuna nicoise salad and others. Then, of course, there’s the ceviche, which is absolutely out of this world.
Food is certainly the focus at Menza, but they also don’t slack off on the drinks, offering some of the best and most creative cocktails in the city alongside a healthy menu of wines and craft beers on tap and in bottles.
TripAdvisor Reviews
We decided to eat here spontaneously and it was a great decision! Every dish was delicious. The atmosphere cozy. I ate the vegan patties on lentil salad. Others ate corned beef, Viennese shnitzel, their home made beef sausages, and tortellini. We shared the shrimp in butter wine sauce as a starter, and an order...
MoreWe decided to eat here spontaneously and it was a great decision! Every dish was delicious. The atmosphere cozy. I ate the vegan patties on lentil salad. Others ate corned beef, Viennese shnitzel, their home made beef sausages, and tortellini. We shared the shrimp in butter wine sauce as a starter, and an order of foccacia. Everything was beautifully presented and extremely tasty. The service was also excellent!
LessWithin four minutes of ordering ma salad and a schnitzel with French fries, both were delivered to my table. The salad was fairly good, but I am very disappointed with the schnitzel. The schnitzel was cold and soggy. It seems that it was made a day or more earlier. The taste also disappoint me....
MoreWithin four minutes of ordering ma salad and a schnitzel with French fries, both were delivered to my table. The salad was fairly good, but I am very disappointed with the schnitzel. The schnitzel was cold and soggy. It seems that it was made a day or more earlier. The taste also disappoint me. I mentioned to the waitress that over the years I have eaten hundreds of schnitzels, and this was the worst ever.
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