Manou Bashouk

Eitz Khaim is Shouk MakhaneYoodah's covered shopping street.

Manou BaShouk is one of the wonderful little restaurants recently opened in the shouk. Cuisine is slightly Lebanese.

Walking from Yafo Rd (where the light rail is), Manou Bashouk is on your left, about a third of the way along the street, tables one step up and open to the street.

Ingredients are as fresh as on the market tables. It's a kosher meat restaurant with superb vegan dishes as well as (I am told) excellent meat options. Wonderful for a carnivore to have a meal with a vegetarian.

The name is a Biblical pun (Exodus 16:15), pronounced as it mainly is in today's Hebrew and in French.

The owners, who staff the restaurant, speak excellent French and English.

My only twinge about Manou Bashouk is that it is part of the gentrification that may in time push out the fruit and vegetable stands, the fish mongers and olive sellers, the salads and cheeses, which makd Mahaneh Yehuda (as it appears on maps).

Copyright 2014 Jane S. Fox