How naive we were last year, eh?
The Tel Aviv EAT festival that took place in May last year anxiously awaited the official opening announcement because of, well, a military operation in the Gaza Strip. Shield and Arrow, they officially called it, and when it was over, the signal was also given for the big, traditional food attack that everyone is waiting for. back to life
This year, the great food event of Tel Aviv (and Israel as a whole, there's no denying it) conquers the city's Charles Clore Garden and is located in front of the sea with situation-adjusted proportions, relationships that are a whole theory and huge hopes - theirs and ours - that maybe one day it will be possible to raise a carnival here Colored citizens without first looking at what is happening in the news.
It is difficult, if not impossible. It is very complex and very delicate. It's not happy, how can it be? Instead of all these, it is simply the life that can be lived here between the operation and the war, and the flavor that is the fantasy of the life that might be here, after.
This collective hug of consolation, produced by the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, will take place for four days (Monday-Thursday, September 16-19, 6:00-11:00 p.m.) on the grass in the southwestern park of the city.
The complex is expected to include, as could be expected from the fragments of our reality, exciting meetings of reservists and fighters from both sides of the kitchen, chefs who descend on the field and food people from the fighting south and the evacuated north - cooks and bakers, jugglers and magicians. Together, food for the soul.
Besides these, there will also be Naifa Mulla, from the Golan Heights with cuts of meat that do not need prior introduction, Shaul Ben Aderet and his Kimmel Bagilboa, Wong and Nini Hachi, Tomer Tomas as well as the wonderful local produce of Meshek Ofaimme.
More? No question really. Shahaf Shabtay will come down to the area from the 14th floor of Pop & Pop, Zakai Hooja will come down from Jerusalem with JackosStreet, and on the exact same road the people of Agripas and Avi Levy, straight from the Hamotzi in Mahane Yehuda market, and Or Shukrun too, straight from sderot.
With them, Eden Kakun and Manal Ismail, Agadir and Meat Truck from the north, the MasAea FOODTRUCK and Beyond Meat, with a lot of wine and an Israeli tribute to the Golan Heights, and to the nationalities of Israel.
Pitmaster's meat feast will also be located on the lawn, with Dutch fries and Caribbean pokies, Asian dim sum and Thai dishes from Ning Thai, fresh pasta from Fiori and South American empanadas, Middle Eastern falafel and Balkan borax.
For dessert, you can choose (or just attack everything) between Showroom Bakehouse's donuts and Minimelts ice cream balls, between Spanish churros and eclairs from France by Crème de la Eclair, Otello and Aldo's creamy ice cream, Knafe & Malabi, Kaboom's crambos , a hot crème brûlée from the Burrlia and an equally hot crepe from Aralecrepe, Banana Loti and the stunning cookies of Choose Your Cookies - and to close everything with the moving gesture of Cafeotef.
Tel Aviv EAT Festival, Charles Clore Park, Tel Aviv, Monday-Thursday, September 16-19, 6:00-11:00 p.m.