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.

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.