Beer Bazaar

About

Beer Bazaar Etz Chaim 3, main covered street in the shuk Phone - 02 671 2559 Hours: Sunday through Thursday- 11 a.m. to last customer Friday - 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday evening - 2 hours after Shabbat ends to last customer Kashrut - Rabbinut yerushalayim Avi and Helen Moskowitz from Brooklyn owned two businesses in America. When they came to Israel, they wanted to open and create a startup "to help the Israeli economy," explains Tova Israeli, their daughter who handles marketing. In 2013, they opened Beer Bazaar in Tel Aviv with a partner. Today, there are two more Beer Bazaars in the Carmel Shuk, one on Levinsky Street, one on Rothschild and, since November 2015, one in Machaneh Yehudah. Beer Bazaar at Machaneh Yehudah has 100 Israel craft beers, all mehedrin and six are house beers. In the main room, there are10 bar stools on which to sit. In the private courtyard, there are 6 bar stools at a bar, 47 seats at tables, and 29 bar tools divided to both sides. The Beer Bazaar serves lunch and snacks and since we frequent them vey often for their lunch offerings, we decided to drop in one evening for dinner. On the lunch/dinner part of the menu, there are only two sandwiches and hot dogs, but these are our favorites! For snacking, there is Beef jerkey (NIS26), a South African treat (NIS28), humus, nachos and salsa, endamame, pretzel and dips, nuts forbeer, smores pie, and beer popsicle. Beverages and spirits; beer by the bottle and other sizes are also on the menu. Tova, our hostess, started out as a waitress, then shift manager, events manager and now does the marketing and teaches high school. "It's primarily a beer garden, more of an Israeli craft bar," she said. "The food is inspired by the beer. Everything on the menu compliments a beer in a different way. The meats are cured here." And what great meats. Beef jerky (NIS26) is a naturally cured and smoked snack--very chewy, very spicy and very good. Biltong is a South African snack (NIS26) soft, in strips of heave