Talbiye

This has been one of my favorite restaurants in Jerusalem for many years now. I've been here at least a dozen times, and it's almost always a wonderful experience! The food is great: I especially recommend to take many starters and share. Their polenta and their beets with mascarpone are exquisite. There is also a dish that is currently not on the menu but they can still make it, so if you go there try to ask for it -- the shrimp in cherry tomatoes butter sauce. Fantastic! They also have a large and interesting selection of wines, and their cocktails are fun too. But above all is the atmosphere and service. The atmosphere is great both for a date or for a group of friends or a family dinner. If you're two people I warmly recommend you sit at the bar. Their bartenders are often a lot of fun. However, on my recent visit there we were 5 and so we sat at a table, and we had the great pleasure of having Mally as our waitress. I want to heartily commend her for making our evening even more fun than usual. She was both professional and knowledgeable about the food, as expected, and warm and personal to a point we actually would have liked for her to sit down and join us for dinner :D I also want to commend the shift manager / wine person, who gave me superb wine recommendations and also at the end of the meal helped solved a small issue we had with the bill. In general, it seems that the staff at Talbiye really care that you have a wholly great experience when dining there, and that, for me, what makes a restaurant a place i want to keep coming back to.