Oud

The Confederation House is a good lace to find eastern music. Last Thursday we went to a concert in which a Mroccan old player wh o studied with an Iraqi master played that graceful instruument with his ensemble f accordionist, two percussionists, bass fiddler and kanonist. Wonderful.

Beit HaConfederatsia also holds a vegetarian restaurant (no fish) with vegan dishes marked.

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Eucalyptus Restaurant

The Eucalyptus Restaurant at the Khutsot HaYotzer artists' colony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutzot_Hayotzer is convenient to the Jaffa Gate as well as Beit haConfederatzia; the Hirsch Theater at Beit Shmuel; and the King David, Citadel, and Waldorf Astoria hotels. It is expensive and good.

The menu indicates which items include guten and which are, or can be prepared, vegan. As it is a kosher meat restaurant, no worries if you are sensitive to dairy products. A big plus, they understand food sensitivities and can tell you with assurance what is in every dish.

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La Boca

Ate dinner at La Boca on Shlontsion HaMalka. Hadn't noticed how many restaurants, some quite upscale, are on this street now. Well, I am usually in the neighborhood on Saturday morning on my way to a walking tour.

Now that my digestion can no longer handle dairy, kosher meat restaurants are a joy. True, I don't eat meat, but they generally have fish (which I do eat) on the menu, and, like many, La Boca even had more than one tempting vegetarian dish.

Even in a kosher dairy restaurant they understand that "no dairy" means no dairy products at all from any animal. No, "I didn't think you included butter."

Walking down HaSoreq and Yodef Rivlin to Hillel Street, I noticed many more new restaurants. Even in a light rain, they seemed to be doing well. Tourists? Locals with money and leisure?

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Cafe

The new cafe on Kharlap Street features excellent cheese. It's a pleasant addition to the neighborhood. Unfortunately what made a place for it was the retirement of Michael who ran the makolet. I miss his shop and him.
See also http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.co.il/2008/08/vanishing-amenity.html

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Off putting way in

Walking on Yafo, with Beit Yoel (housing the Village Green) on your left, cross Yosef Rivlin and continue the tiniest bit , not quite to Shlomtzion HaMalka. On your right will be an archway that doesn't look like it goes anywhere you'd want to. Enter anyway. Graffiti cover the walls of a short passage.

But you can already see the upscale restaurants on the way to Yoel Moshe Solomon Street.

Along with Yosef Rivlin, Yoel Moshe Solomon, before he made is way to Petakh Tikva, founded Nakhalat Shiv'a in 1868. Some of the buildings still stand. cross the street and you cam make your own way through courtyards and alleyways to Kikar HaMusika, a new project adding performance space inside and out to modern Jerusalem.

Saturday's municipality walking tours, both the Hebrew and the English, went through the center of the new city, from the Russian Compound to Zion Square (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.co.il/2007/01/handprint.html ) (named for the city's first cinema) and on to Nakhalat Shiv'a. I already knew most of the places and history, but not all. These walks always teach me something new and take me to at least one place I haven't been before, often to one I'd never discover on my own.

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Changes

Zigmund's (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.co.il/2009/03/tiffany-lampshade.html ) is now a tiny bar and tobacco shop. No delicious soup any more.

The meat restaurant up the street from it lasted less than a year. The bagel sandwich shop across Aza is now a an art store. Lekhem Shel Tomer, just beyond the bus stop, sells excellent bread and provides a small cafe where I have seen folks eating pastries and sandwiches. The coffee shop down the street is now a bar, flanked today by a pizzaria with a cafe next to it, around the corner on Mitudella. Strangely the sushi restaurant on the other side of Azqa has stayed in business several years.

If you want hardware (right side going up Aza) or books (left side going up Aza) you are still in luck.

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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