Mutran sweets

Type: Sweets, Middle Eastern
English Menu: No need
Average price: 20 NIS
Address: 99 Yefet st. in Jaffa

Mutran sweets is one of the best places to try Arabic sweets delicacies. In the store there are dozens of different cookies and other sweet treat, neatly arranged for you to pick and enjoy at home.

In case you feel like trying out the sweets there, Mutran also has a cozy and air-conditioned space where you can sit and enjoy one of their treats. Recommended very much is the sweet and savoury knafe, crunchy angel hair noodles covering goat cheese inside, served warm. The malabi is also one of the best in Jaffa. The tea and coffee are a bit pricy there, though usually extremely fit the desserts.
How to get there
It's a bit messy, but you'll make it:
Take bus 25 towards Jaffa/ Yafo, go down at the fifth station on Sderot Yerushalaim (at no. 134). Go a bit backwards and take left at Bat Ayin st. Go up straight till you hit a main street, Yefet. There take left, and it should be on your left.

* Note: The coffee and tea are not for free.

Gilad and Daniel

Type: French Bistro
English Menu: Yes
Average price: 30 NIS (desserts)
Address: 300 Dizengoff st.

Gilad and Daniel is a cozy french bistro located in a quiet location on Dizengoff. It's famous for its special tarte tatin, which comes with apples or pears. Indeed a great treat! The tarte tatin is absolutely the best in Tel Aviv (runner up - Goocha's).

Also the creme brulee is wickedly good. This one can be topped only by the brulee of Dubnov 8.

Although we initially only went to Gilad ve Daniel for desserts, we found out that their Lyonnaise chicken with rice is to die for! The delicately grilled chicken breast is laid on a bed of luscious cream sauce with mushrooms, spring onions and chives. Wow!

How to get there
Go north on Dizengoff. It's close to the intersection with Yirmiyahu st. (Bus no. 5 can drop you on Nordau st. where from you can keep on going north).

Malabi Dajani

Type: Dessert, Middle Eastern food
English menu: No
Average price: 11 NIS
Address: 94 Yerushalaim Blvd. in Jaffa

Malabi is a popular dessert in Israel which is made of milk and cream, jellified with cornstarch, and then sweetened on top with rose syrup, and some add nuts and coconut.

Maybe the best malabi you'll eat is in Malabi Dajani pit, which is running for three generations now and keeps attracting dozens of fans which are all addicted to his secret and magical recipe.
As Tel Avivians do, you can have the malabi for the finale of your hummus excursion at Abu-Hassan.

How to get there
Take bus 25 and go down at Jerusalem Blvd. ("Shderot Yerushalayim") 96 - on the corner of Erlich st. If you're coming from Abu-Hassan, go back to the boulevard, and then go the same direction of the bus you got there with until you get there.

Max Brenner

Type: Restaurant, Chocolate bar, International Food
English menu: Yes
Average price: 40-50 NIS
Address: 45 Rothschild Blvd.

If Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory was real, this would definitely be the place. Max Brenner is an Israeli quality chocolate brand branch, which serves plenty of delicate cakes, pancakes, milkshakes, choctails, crepes, waffles and truffles just as a normal dish. Although there's a nice savory menu too for lunch or dinner, a trip to this place is worthless without the experience of having a 'dessert dinner'. Chocolate addicts - beware, after Max Brenner you'll be a junky forever.

The menu is various and so tempting that it might take over 10 minutes to decide what to order. We advice to start with the thick and creamy Italian Chocolata as a starting drink. Then we recommend the "Chocolate Pizza" - a sweet hot pancake covered with chocolate chunks that melt on the pancake slowly but stimulate your tongue in a jiffy. Menus are changed from time to time for new things so it's worth checking it. If you are really impressed you can buy some of Max Brenner's products in the store inside.

Max Brenner is open all week from morning until the last customer. You might have to queue up during peak hours but it's worth waiting.

How to get there
It's located at the beginning of Rothschild Blvd, near the intersection with Allenby st. You can go there by walking down Allenby towards south or by walking all the way through Rothschild Blvd.

Iceberg Ice Cream

Type: Ice cream
English menu: No need
Average price: 18 NIS for two scoops
Address: see branches below

Iceberg is one of the best ice creams in Tel Aviv and considered by many Tel Avivians as their favourite one. Iceberg has many kinds of flavors to choose from. We can try to help you out by recommending on the banana pecan, classic vanilla, orange sorbet and the Belgian chocolate (well you can never miss with the last one). But who buys ice cream without trying it out first?

:-)

How to get there
Iceberg has couple of branches:

1) 108 Ben Yehuda (A bit south of the intersection with Ben Gurion blvd)
2) In the port, in the fountain square (a bit hard to find, but there they also have pizza, pasta and other desserts)
3) Allenby and Rothschild intersection

4) 24 Iben Gvirol (you go on Dizengoff and then take left to Iben Gvirol)

Vaniglia Ice Cream

Type: Ice cream

English menu: No need
Average price: 18 NIS for 2 scoops
Address: 98 Iben Gvirol st., 33 Bograshov st., Dizengoff center (bottom floor); 267 Dizengoff st.; 22 Ishtori HaParchi st (Basel Compound)

Vaniglia probably has the best ice-cream in Tel Aviv and you will want to taste everything there - which is quite possible considering their vast flavors assortment. The combinations such as camomille with vanilla or vanilla ginger are just an example on how adventurous they can get. But besides wild experiences, highly recommended are the fruit sorbet flavors, such as the mango, melon and plum. These are the best in this joint. If you don't mind the calories and you're not afraid to go all-the-way creamy, try the pistachio, chocolate or the yoghurt with pine nuts.

If you want eat in you can go inside to a small, airconditioned and quiet niche. You can also get ice cream takeout - A container of 1 kg is 77 NIS and you can choose 5-6 flavors.

How to get there
Iben Gvirol -  Iben Gvirol just a bit further from Rabin square when you face north. For the Bograshov branch, go towards the sea on the right side, it should be somewhere in the middle. For Dizengoff branch just go north, it's where Dizengoff st. intersects with Yirmiyahu. Basel - take right on Basel st. from Dizengoff, than go straight till you hit the cafe's area, then take right. 

La Goffre

Type: Cafe-Restaurant, Waffles
English menu: Yes
Average price: 30-45 NIS
Address: 84 Iben Gvirol

Craving for something sweet but lasting? Go to La Goffre for an amazing Belgian waffle (the word is derived from the word 'gauffre' which means "waffle" in French). You can add as much ingredients as you want (and pay for it too) on top of the already great tasting waffle. They have toppings like voluptuous butterscotch, delicious chocolate (white, milk, dark), cream, vanilla ice cream, sweetened pecan nuts (very much recommended), chocolate sauce, cream cheese, halva, ice cream and etc.

You can literally go bananas with the toppings, but it is recommended to take it easy - less is more. The best combination is the nutella spread, bananas, pecan nuts, melted white chocolate sprinkles and a scoop of ice cream.

Before the waffle, you can pick one of their savory dishes, of which the quiches are quite good. But this waffle is so amazingly good that you might want to order a second one even before you finished the first... but instead of getting yourself nauseous, just come back some other day. Maybe on the last day before your flight from Tel Aviv.

How to get there
On Iben Gvirol next to Rabin square.