Everything at Menza was just so lovely! The food was absolutely delicious, I loved the couscous salad and the vegan patties, the steak was cooked and seasoned perfectly. The atmosphere is great ~ updated, clean and bright and the staff was so friendly and helpful. All around really wonderful experience and would highly recommend!
- 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
Based on 312 traveler reviewsNew
“Such Great Food!”
“Nice casual dining”
Ate here twice and each time we had a nice meal - hamburger was definitely a highlight. Situated in a quiet passage near The Bezalel Artist House. Service was friendly. Good to note that it is open on Friday nights and all day Saturday - need to book.
“Good place to eat!”
Great food ,good service Open on saturday Not by the road convinient families,the kids can walk around
“Least Jewish Restaurant in Jerusalem”
So, this restaurant is a typical "trying hard to be adventurous" restaurant you'd find in any city in the USA. And, like any similar restaurant in the USA they have managed to try to sneak bacon, pork, shellfish, and any other unkosher food item into virtually everything on the menu. Breakfast menu? ham...
MoreSo, this restaurant is a typical "trying hard to be adventurous" restaurant you'd find in any city in the USA. And, like any similar restaurant in the USA they have managed to try to sneak bacon, pork, shellfish, and any other unkosher food item into virtually everything on the menu. Breakfast menu? ham and eggs, bacon and eggs, bacon sandwich. Dinner menu? Ink squid pasta, pork ribs, cheeseburgers, mussels, scallops, etc. They had a home made pasta dish which after great investigation had no unkosher food items in it. However, it was undercooked. My daughter (8 years old) had the kids pasta which was nothing special and so small she had to order two of them. The fattoush salad, however, was delicious though misleading. It says it is served with pita, but in fact there were three small chips of pita on the salad. It was tasty however with fresh herbs. The waitress was quite nice. The restaurant was nice looking (though by no means fancy). The seats on the bench we were seated at had crumbs I brushed away. To summarize, this is a fine restaurant if you want to pretend you are not in Israel. In Israel, there is no reason to go out of your way to find a place that has such a limited number of options for a Jewish diner. And if your're not Jewish, at least try to eat something more interesting, authentic, or characteristic of Israel.
Less“Breakfast was very good, service was kind of slow”
Breakfast was very good - omelettes and eggs benedict that was all great. (Usually an Israeli breakfast will include both hot and cold beverages and at the Menza it wasn’t the case.