Two seatings tonight · Last 4 chairs
Esme. Reserve
Plated dish under candlelight
№ 47 · Spring tasting · 2026

A small
kitchen
in Florentin.

Twenty-four seats. Two seatings. One six-course menu that changes with the market. No phones at the table — we hand out a small printed card with the wine list and the menu in our handwriting.

Chef
Maya Bar
Tasting
6 courses · ₪385
Reservations
Wed–Sun · 19:00 / 21:30
★ Time Out — One of TLV's 10 best openings· "A kitchen with quiet conviction."— Haaretz· Featured in The Guardian Travel
№ 02 — Wine

Small list,
long thinking.

Forty bottles. Half from Israel, half from somewhere with a similar climate. We don't print scores. The pairing flight is six glasses, ₪220, and we'll talk you through every one if you ask.

Pairing
₪220
By the glass
₪38–68
Bottle
From ₪220
Wine being poured
Wine bottle
Glasses on a counter
Chef Maya Bar at the pass
№ 03 — The chef

Maya
Bar.

Trained in Lyon, sharpened at Mugaritz, and in love with Israeli ingredients enough to come back and open something quiet. Maya cooks every service. She's at the pass for both seatings, every night we're open.

"I wanted somewhere that smells of fennel pollen at 18:30 and tells you, gently, when to put your fork down."
— Maya, opening night
Mugaritz
San Sebastián · 2 yrs
Lyon
Trained · IFB
2024
Esme opens
№ 04 — The room

Twenty-four
seats.

A brass-topped bar runs the length of the room — eight stools facing the open kitchen. Sixteen seats at low tables along the back wall. We don't take groups over six.

Restaurant bar
Plated dish
Pasta course
Restaurant interior
Olive oil ice cream
Burnt cabbage dish
Reserve

A table for
two.

We open reservations 30 days in advance, on Sundays at noon. The bar holds eight first-come seats every night. The kitchen closes at 23:30 — we'd rather you came hungry and stayed long.

This week
  • Wed Apr 30
    19:00 / 21:30
    2 seats
  • Thu May 1
    19:00 / 21:30
    full
  • Fri May 2
    19:00 / 21:30
    4 seats
  • Sat May 3
    19:00 only
    6 seats
  • Sun May 4
    19:00 / 21:30
    8 seats
Open all dates