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Seabourn Quest: Mediterranean Cruise Review

admin — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:39:47 +0000

The Seabourn Quest Mediterranean cruise is pricey but it delivers – excellent food and service, top notch shows and good tours.

Seabourn Quest arrives to Haifa, Israel.

Cafe HaBank, Haifa, Israel

admin — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:33:51 +0000

Tourist trap. I have ordered for breakfast a bagel toast supposedly with tomatoes and mozarella – NIS 44 (USD $12). Tomatoes were not there and there was some cheap yellow toast cheese instead mozarella. When I complained to the waiter, she shrugged and mumbled something like ” that’s what it is”. As a reimbursement waiter brought some dessert which looked and tasted like food remnants from the day before.

St. George Parade in Acre, Israel

admin — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:34:54 +0000

Oysters at Uri Buri

Hilton Eilat Queen of Sheba – Grossly Neglected Hotel

admin — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:30:53 +0000

The Hilton Eilat Queen of Sheba hotel is not what it used to be – once a flagship hotel of the Hilton chain in Israel has turned into grossly neglected caravanserai, more deserving to bear low-end Leonardo (Fattal Group) brand name than Hilton. Shabby rooms, bad service, horrible food and lack of any entertainment are below standards of the most basic 3-star hotel and come at the price of luxury hotel. Gone are the days when gourmet stations were busy plating exquisite food at buffet dinners. Guests be prepared for dull, lacking any taste, workplace eatery food. Meats are overcooked to oblivion, watery vegetables. Coffee served at breakfast is undrinkable beyond pale. The hotel has no its own beach.

Day at the Mount Hermon, Israel

admin — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:46:25 +0000

Salvator Dali Exhibition, March 22-April 6, 2013, Haifa, Israel

admin — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:53:28 +0000

The Salvator Dali Exhibition was on display at the Congress Center in Haifa from March 22 to April 6, 2013.

Mediterranean Salad with Sourdough Bread

admin — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:01:32 +0000

Gyoza

admin — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:48:00 +0000

Black Rice Risotto with Ginger Glazed Shrimps and Green Salad

admin — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:33:58 +0000

Restaurant Mizlala, Tel Aviv, Israel

admin — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:40:53 +0000

The rising star of the Israeli nouvelle cuisine Chef Meir Adoni made himself a huge disservice by lending his name to Mizlala, a pretentious bistro at Nahalat Benyamin 57, Tel Aviv. We booked lunch in Mizlala on Yom HaAtzmaut (Independence Day), inspired by good memories of Catit, a flagship restaurant of Meir Adoni. Well, the lunch in Mizlala proved to be a disappointment which could be summarized in a few words – stale food with refrigerator’s odor and poor service.

Sourdough bread was stale (at least few days old). The beetroot and lima bean salads, served as appetizers, had an appeal of supermarket chilled ready meals. Described in menu as “winter salad” the beetroot salad had winter written all over it – fridge stank and cold.

The “risotto with local calamari stuffed with shrimps” was unsavoury mess of rice porridge covered with blankets of parmesan, cold squashed cherry tomatoes and some green weeds. Mullet fillet had a characteristic fish odor not associated with freshness. What was supposed to be an eggplant foam in reality was a heavy greasy mass. Waiters were slow and unattentive despite almost empty restaurant. Eek, never again!