Café Birenbaum

Down the street from the beautiful Nachalat Binyamin craft market (open Tuesdays and Fridays) stands a neighborhood spot with an extensive salad bar buffet of down-to-earth hot and cold dishes. Cafe Birenbaum has over 50 options from light cabbage salads and bean salads to buckwheat and couscous. A cast of distinctive “Tel Aviv” characters – from hungry young beachgoers to patrons of “a certain age” –  have been eating here for years, all for the same reason: to feel at home. For NIS 50 (cash only), you get all you can eat hot and cold salads, quiches and other vegetarian grub. This hidden gem has been open and serving these sensational salads since 1962.