This is a list of restaurants in Israel. In 2007 there were about 4,400 food and beverage vendors in Israel.^[1] By 2012 about 8000 such business were reported.^[2] With the highest percentage of vegan population by some estimates, Israel is home to many vegan restaurants.^[3]

Restaurant chains

International chains operating in Israel

Israeli international chains

• Aroma Espresso Bar – espresso and coffee chain with 162 branches in Israel^[4] and branches in the United States,^[5] Canada,^[6] Kazakhstan, Romania, and Ukraine.^[7]
• Cofix – Israeli coffee house chain selling most items for NIS 5 with locations dispersed over Israel and Russia
• Max Brenner – Israeli chocolate shop and restaurant^[8] with 36 branches in Australia, Israel, Japan, Russia, and the US
• Miznon – Israeli chain with a few restaurants around the world

Foreign chains

• Burger King – operating 16 locations in 2023,^[9] out of 19,000 worldwide
• Domino's Pizza – operating 57 locations around Israel^[10] out of 19,000 worldwide
• KFC – operates 16 branches in Israel out of 24,000 worldwide
• McDonald's – 225 locations^[11] out of 40,000 locations worldwide
• Papa John's Pizza – operates 25 locations around Israel,^[12] out of 5,000 locations worldwide
• Pizza Hut – operating 43 locations around Israel out of 19,000 locations worldwide.

National chains

• Arcaffe – chain of cafes in Israel with 29 outlets across the country
• Big Apple Pizza – New York City-style pizza chain with 10 locations around Israel
• Black Bar 'n' Burger – burger chain with 14 locations across Israel^[13]
• Burgeranch – fast-food chain with 107 restaurants and over 1500 employees in 2010^[14]
• Burgers Bar – sit-down, American-style bar restaurant with 30 locations across Israel^[15]
• Café Café – Israeli coffee chain with about 65 locations. Went international for a while.
• HaShamen – shawarma chain with 7 locations around Israel
• Holy Bagel – bagel store chain with 11 locations around Israel^[16]
• Roladin – largest bakery chain in Israel, with 43 locations around Israel

Regional, local, and tiny chains

• Abu Hassan – hummus restaurant with 3 locations in Jaffa
• Beit Haful^[17][18] – chain of 8 Mediterranean restaurants in Southern Israel^[19]
• Mike's Place – American-style bar with 3 locations around Israel^[20]
• Papagaio – churrascaria-style restaurant with 2 locations around Israel^[21]
• Café Rimon – chain of 2 locations in Jerusalem and 1 in Beit Shemesh^[22]

International chains that failed in Israel

• The Cheesecake Factory – operated 8 locations around Israel until 2020. The Rishon store continues as The Factory.
• Dunkin' Donuts – At one time operated 9 branches in Israel, then folded.
• Sbarro – entered Israel in 1995. Had 25 branches at the height of its success, then folded.
• Starbucks – had 20 locations in the greater Tel Aviv region.^[23] Pulled out for lack of profitability.
• Subway – had 23 locations around Israel.^[24] Closed in 2004.
• Wendy's – operated a few years from 1987, had just a few branches.
• Wimpy – An Israeli branch started in the 1960s. It expanded to Sinai, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, and Iran before folding in the 1980s.^{[25][26][27][28]}

Restaurants

Haifa & North

• Falafel HaZkenim, Haifa – famous Israeli falafel restaurant. Briefly had a branch.
• MacDavid – started as a hamburger restaurant in Tel Aviv, grew to 28 branches nationwide, now one restaurant in Haifa.
• HaOgen, Haifa – founded 1942, this is Israel's oldest pub.^[29] Since Penguin in Nahariya closed, it is also the oldest restaurant.
• Yonk – Romanian grill since 1948 in Haifa

Tel Aviv & Center

• Anastasia – vegan restaurant in Tel Aviv^[30]
• Mashya – fine dining in Tel Aviv
• Herbert Samuel – Kosher fine-dining in Herzliya. Was an Israeli chain of 3 restaurants.
• Spaghettim – Italian cuisine in Petach Tikva. Was a chain with 17 restaurants nationwide in 2010.^[31]

Jerusalem & South

• Barood – bar-restaurant in Jerusalem serving Sephardic cuisine
• Eucalyptus – kosher meat restaurant in Jerusalem
• Machneyuda – popular restaurant in Jerusalem^[32]
• Sami VeSusu – Romanian cuisine restaurant at the municipal market of Beersheba

Former

• Café Hillel – cafe, espresso bar, and sandwich bar chain that closed down in 2003^[33]
• Mișu King of the Kebab - Romanian cuisine in Jaffa.
• Mul Yam – restaurant that was located in Tel Aviv Port. It was founded in 1995 and burned down in 2015.
• Nizahon Restaurant – Romanian grill in Ashkelon, founded in 1949, closed in 2019
• Penguin – German-Israeli family restaurant from 1940 to 2022 in Nahariya