Carmel Market

Celebrate Rosh Hashanah With the Help of London Restaurants This Year | Eater London

"A Tel Aviv–inspired restaurant offering limited-edition DIY sweet breads for Rosh Hashanah, including an apple-and-honey babka (£24) and a date-and-pistachio variant (£24). Orders for the apple-and-honey babka must be placed online by midnight on 20 September for delivery on 23 September, and the offer is restricted to the greater London area." - Adrienne Katz Kennedy

"The Carmel Market (Shuk) of Tel Aviv The Carmel Market is the largest outdoors market in Tel Aviv and sells everything from toiletries, clothes, meat, fruit and vegetables and some delicatessen cheese. Like in a lot of outdoors markets, the fruit and vegetables are displayed in such a way you can touch, smell and sometimes even taste it before you buy. The outdoors markets (shuk) are busy, noisy and crowded but they are also a micro-cosmos sometimes of the country's nation. Markets in Israel are opened quite early in the morning and close around 7 or 8. Friday before the Shabat, is mostly the most busiest days as people in a hurry to get food for the weekend. Saturday Shabat the markets are closed. Almsot every city in Israel has an outdoor market (shuk). Some of the well known ones are: Kerem Hateymanim, a a small neighborhood named after the immigrants from Yamen. The most famous shuk in Jerusalem is Machne Yehuda, which is quite a big outdoor place, very busy with a mix crowd of Jews, Muslim, Christians, Orthodox and seculars. In Haifa the shuk is in the arab quarter in Vadi Nisnas, the market has bakeries, fish and seafood stores and grounded arabic coffee. In recent years some main cities have Farmer markets, which take place mostly on Fridays."

Why Chef Alon Shaya Loved Learning from Home Cooks in Israel - AFAR

"A bustling Tel Aviv market where the team sampled outstanding hummus topped with eggplant and tangy amba (pickled mango sauce), served by a fourth-generation hummus-shop owner—an energetic, authentic street-food experience that highlights multigenerational culinary tradition." - Alon Shaya, Sara Button

Why Is Tel Aviv’s Carmel Market Closed While Supermarkets Stay Open? | Eater

"A century-old outdoor food bazaar in Tel Aviv’s Yemenite Quarter, this compact, ragged assembly of stalls is normally a pre-dawn cacophony of produce deliveries, fishmongers filleting amberjack and snapper, hawkers frying falafel, and long-standing specialist vendors—from a butcher selling locally raised lamb chops to a loquat seller and a cheesemonger offering family-made feta for generations. After a government order to close open-air markets during the COVID-19 crisis, the usually lively lanes became eerily quiet and unusually clean, with police patrolling and many vendors’ livelihoods decimated. The author, who relies on the market as a daily social and professional touchstone, argues that the open-air setting allows for self-determined distancing and safer shopping than enclosed supermarkets and describes a resilient vendor community adapting through clandestine WhatsApp networks, side-street stalls enforcing strict spacing, masked regulars, latex-gloved employees selecting produce, and ongoing faith that a market that has weathered terror alerts, missile threats, inflation, and recession will rebound." - Adeena Sussman

The Best Cookbooks of Fall 2019 | Eater

"The bustling Tel Aviv market neighborhood that supplies the fresh spices, produce, and condiments central to contemporary Israeli home cooking, informing a cookbook that opens with a spices primer (baharat, za'atar) and regional condiments (schug, harissa) and then offers an expansive roster of breads, salatim, mains, and sweets — from shawarma and kugel Yerushalmi to inventive treats like chewy tahini blondies — reflecting the city’s culinary diversity." - Eater Staff