Rooftop

Visited here in our last night in Israel (5 nights in Jerusalem & 2 weeks in total for Israel before heading to Jordan). We decided to head to the Rooftop because of the view and food. We had very low seats and asked for cushions or something so we could actually eat properly. They brought us cushions to address the issue of low seats. There were two young girls taking our orders, very sweet, I think one was training the other, but just needed a little more training. My father and I ordered the goose and my mother ordered the chicken. The goose was ok, I’ve had better cooked duck/goose. My father did say to the young wait staff that he was disappointed with the meal and poor thing did not know how to respond (training required there). My father doesn’t like to make a fuss but he calls a spade a spade especially when it is an expensive meal. Half of my fathers goose was not cooked well as it was chewey and hard to cut. There was quite a bit of goose, I recommend getting this and another dish and sharing as I found that it was a lot of essentially just meat. My mother had the chicken which was lovely. My father and I shared the poached orar dessert which was extremely nice. Constructive criticism; for a 5 star hotel and landmark/schmancy restaurant the wait staff needed to be a little more attentive (we would ask for something and then suddenly staff would go off on other errands, constantly reminding “hello, bill please” “hello, the bill ?” “Hello, can we pay?”), however not a big problem as this seems to be quite consistent at most restaurants in Jerusalem. As for the goose dish, the meat should be tender and certainly not chewey. The view is lovely (we were there at night), I recommend requesting a table near the window/balcony edge. Would I go back ? yes in the daytime for the view, but would certainly not get duck/goose ; ) also I was after beautiful Israeli food deconstructed ... well that’s what I was expecting so I think I was a little disappointed with the creativity.