Aroma Esprosso Bar in the Toronto region

Max Brenner chocolate bar in Herzliya

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 vegans, Israel has many vegan restaurants.^[3] Israel's main American fast food chains include: McDonald's, Burger King, Domino's Pizza, Pizza Hut, Papa John's Pizza, The Cheesecake Factory and KFC (opens its first location in Israel in March 2019).

Restaurant chains

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

Foreign chains operating in Israel

Former Kosher McDonald's in Ashkelon

• Burger King – operating 12 locations in 2023,^[9] out of 19,000 worldwide
• Domino's Pizza – operating 57 locations around Israel^[10] out of 16,000 worldwide
• KFC – operates 16 branches in Israel out of 24,000 worldwide
• McDonald's – 225 locations^[11] out of about 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

Burger Ranch in Ashdod

Israeli breakfast served at Café Café

• Arcaffe – is a 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.
• Holy Bagel – bagel store chain with 11 locations around Israel^[16]
• Roladin – largest bakery chain in Israel, with 43 locations around Israel^[17]

Regional, local, and small chains

• Abu Hassan – Hummus restaurant with 3 locations in Jaffa
• Beit Haful – a chain of 9 Mediterranean restaurants in Southern Israel
• Café Rimon – a chain of 2 locations in Jerusalem and 1 in Beit Shemesh^[18]
• HaShamen – Shawarma chain with 7 locations around Israel
• Mike's Place – American-style bar with 3 locations around Israel^[19]
• Papagaio – churrascaria-style restaurant with 2 locations around Israel^[20]

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 and had 25 branches at the height of its success.
• Starbucks – had 20 locations in the greater Tel Aviv region.^[21] Pulled out for lack of profitability.
• Subway – had 23 locations around Israel.^[22] Closed in 2004.
• Wendy's – operated a few years from 1987, had just a few branches.
• Wimpy – entered in the 1960s, folded in the 1980s.

Restaurants

The owner fills a pita with falafel at Falafel HaZkenim

Haifa & North

• Diana restaurant, oldest surviving restaurant in Nazareth. Was a chain for a while.
• 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 if not its oldest restaurant
• Yonk – Romanian grill since 1948 in Haifa

Tel Aviv & Center

• Blue Sky by Meir Adoni – fine dining at the Carlton Tel Aviv
• Lumina by Meir Adoni – fine dining at the Carlton Tel Aviv
• Mashya – fine dining in Tel Aviv
• Pastel – fine dining at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• 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.^[23]

Jerusalem & South

Barood, Jerusalem

• Anna Italian Café – located in the Ticho House, a historic home in Jerusalem that is a branch of the Israel Museum.
• Barood – bar-restaurant in Jerusalem serving Sephardic cuisine
• The Eucalyptus – kosher meat restaurant in Jerusalem
• La Régence – fine dining at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem
• Sami VeSusu – Romanian cuisine restaurant at the municipal market of Beersheba

Former

Penguin, Nahariya in the 1950s

• Café Hillel – cafe, espresso bar, and sandwich bar chain that closed down in 2003^[24]
• Mișu King of the Kebab - Romanian cuisine in Jaffa.
• Mul Yam – restaurant located in Tel Aviv Port, founded in 1995; burned down in 2015
• Nizahon Restaurant – Romanian grill in Ashkelon, founded in 1949, closed in 2019
• Penguin – family restaurant from 1940 to 2022 in Nahariya