Angelica

About

Address--4 Washington Phone--623-0056 Kosher - Rabbinute Jerusalem Hours: Sunday through Thursday 12:30-4:30 p.m. for business lunch 6 p.m. to last customer for dinner Friday and Saturday - closed Saturday evening - one and a half hours after Shabbat ends until last customer Chef Marcos Gershkovich and Chef Erez Mergi opened Angelica in September 2008 in the Montefiore Hotel on Schatz Street and named their restaurant for the daughter of Boris Schatz, founder of the nearby Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. After four years, they decided to look for a new location, reinvent the restaurant as more independent (not downstairs from a hotel). In addition to attracting the customers from the surrounding hotels, as well as their cadre of regulars, they have also been trying to interest young people. The new property is done in a very contemporary style--a few doors from King David Street, opposite the King David Hotel, down Washington Street to a small path to a garden and large picture windows at the entrance. The main dining room has simple black tables and chairs to seat 26, tile floors, white china and sparkling crystal. A red leather couch sits by the picture window for seating next to the tables there. On the ceiling are mirrors--something to look at and talk about! In the back is the bar with bar stools for nine and a large, glass wall looking into the highly-organized kitchen. To one side of the bar is a wall of refrigerators holding the extensive wine collection with a hanging wine rack above. Behind a pleated curtain divider is a private room which seats up to 16. Up a step to the right of the main dining room is a smaller dining 20+room with wooden walls and floors, large arched picture windows and seats for 25. Soft background music plays while one soaks up the warm atmosphere. On the night we came, Chef Erez Mergi was cooking dinner at Prime Minister Netanyahu's home, so our hosts were Yonatan Maman, manager for the past two and a half years; and one of the t