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Gambrinus
גמברינוס
Restaurant · Bar · Seafood · Fish · Meat · ₪₪ · No kosher certificate
Bnei Brit Boulevard, corner of Menachem Begin Boulevard, Ashdod
A wood-panelled pub and restaurant in a residential corner of Ashdod's City quarter, with big plates of seafood, whole fish and meat, beer, and its cheese-topped Gambrinus chips
Gambrinus is a pub and restaurant at the corner of Bnei Brit and Menachem Begin boulevards in Ashdod's City quarter (Rova HaKirya), in a building whose street address is 45 HaTziyonut Street. mako's Lin Levi, listing Ashdod's best restaurants in April 2025, described it as a pub-restaurant with a 1990s vibe, tucked away on the edge of a residential neighbourhood, that has become an open secret among locals. Inside, as mako's Rita Goldstein described it in August 2025, are wooden walls, huge dark-wood tables and wide benches where families with children and groups of friends sit together, quick waiters with notebook and pen, and a barman long past 60 pouring beer after beer; she called it the closest thing in Israel to a real English pub. Its menu, in Hebrew, Russian and English, runs from Gambrinus chips (cubes of fried potato under grated Bulgarian cheese), potatoes in a creamy mushroom sauce and toasts to shrimp in garlic butter, fried calamari, whole sea bream and sea bass, smoked trout, aged entrecôte, lamb chops, pork spareribs and lamb sausages, and the main dishes come with salad, potato and butter. There is a cocktail list too, and in 2017 mako's Gil Gutkin found a huge range of beers, with the waiters helping guests choose. Goldstein wrote that the chips are one of the house's best-known dishes and that every table orders the pan of shrimp in butter and garlic. It takes table bookings by phone for groups of more than six, opens in the evening from Monday to Thursday, from 14:30 on Friday and from 12:30 on Saturday, and is closed on Sunday. As early as 2017 Gutkin wrote that it had become something of a legend in the city, filling up almost every day of the week, with queues outside.
What happens here
- Friday and Saturday
- Open from the afternoon
From Monday to Thursday it opens in the evening, at 17:15. On Friday it opens at 14:30 and on Saturday at 12:30, and it stays open until 23:00.
As published on mako, read 2026-10-01.
At a glance
- Shabbat
- Open Saturday 12:30-23:00
- Kosher
- No certificate
- Diet
- seafood, fish, meat
- Prices
- ₪₪ of ₪₪₪
- Wheelchair
- Accessible
- Own website
- Open on Friday
- Good for families
Photos
For illustration: the trade, not Gambrinus itself.
Opening hours
Checking the clock in Israel
| Sunday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Monday to Thursday | 17:15-23:00 |
| Friday | 14:30-23:00 |
| Saturday | 12:30-23:00 |
| Sukkot | 26 September to 2 October |
| Simchat Torah | 3 Octoberfrom Friday evening |
Gambrinus has not published holiday hours. Call before you go. Sukkot: the dates and times
Candle lighting 6:06 PMShabbat ends 7:00 PM
As published on gambrinus.co.il, read 2026-10-01. All Shabbat times
Sources disagree on these hours
Its website gives Monday to Thursday 17:15 to 23:00, Friday 14:30 to 23:00 and Saturday 12:30 to 23:00, and no hours for Sunday. Its Google listing, as Wanderlog copies it, has the same Friday and Saturday hours, opens at 17:30 from Monday to Thursday and is closed on Sunday. mako's list of April 2025 printed Sunday to Thursday 17:00 to 23:00, Friday 14:00 to midnight and Saturday 12:00 to 23:30, and the municipal tourism company's page for it and its listing on rol.co.il give Monday to Wednesday 18:00 to 23:00, Thursday 17:00 to midnight and Friday and Saturday 12:00 to 01:00. Its listing on d.co.il gives daytime hours that are not the restaurant's.
Location
Bnei Brit Boulevard, corner of Menachem Begin Boulevard, Ashdod7745648
- Train: Ashdod Ad Halom2.4 km from the door, straight line
- Bus: Nearest stop 60 mlines 1, 16, 22, 28, 38, 38א, 140, 141 and 7 more
- Parking: OpenStreetMap maps a car-park entrance about 60 metres west of it, marks the HaTziyonut service road about 80 metres away as a car-park aisle, and maps a paid surface car park about 320 metres to the west.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-01.
Reviews
- Google4.57255 ratings · As quoted by wanderlog.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Google
- Tripadvisor4.4679 ratings · As quoted by wanderlog.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Tripadvisor
- Rest4.069 ratings · Read 2026-10-01Read on Rest
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Questions
About Gambrinus
- Restaurant and bar in oneIt trades as both, under one name at one address.
- Open on ShabbatOn Saturday it is open 12:30 to 23:00.
- 8,003 public ratingsAcross Google, Tripadvisor, Rest, each linked below with the day we read it.
- 2.4 km from Ashdod Ad Halom stationBus stops within 337 m: בני ברית, מרכז מסחרי/הציונות, הציונות/המאבק, העצמאות/תש״ח, העצמאות/הגשמה, הכלנית/הצבעוני, העצמאות/הציונות.
- Price band ₪₪Rest puts it in the second of its four price bands, at 60 to 120 shekels a person. On the menu its website showed on 1 October 2026, the starters cost 40 to 70 shekels, with bread at 10; most seafood dishes cost 100, a kilo of crab 150 and a fried shrimp and calamari mix 160; the whole fish and the barramundi fillet 100 to 125; and the meat dishes 80 to 300, from 80 for the lamb sausages to 300 for 650 grams of entrecôte. The main dishes come with salad, potato and butter. A beer costs 30 or 35 shekels, the cocktails 50 to 60, and the desserts 25 to 50.
Gambrinus is a restaurant at Bnei Brit Boulevard, corner of Menachem Begin Boulevard in Ashdod, in the Southern District. It is also a bar.
It publishes its menu on gambrinus.co.il; 18 of its dishes are listed below with their prices, as read on 1 October 2026.
Hours, as listed on gambrinus.co.il on 1 October 2026: Sunday closed, Monday to Thursday 17:15 to 23:00, Friday 14:30 to 23:00, Saturday 12:30 to 23:00.
The nearest railway station is Ashdod Ad Halom, 2.4 km away. The nearest bus stops are בני ברית (60 m), מרכז מסחרי/הציונות (236 m), הציונות/המאבק (273 m). OpenStreetMap maps a car-park entrance about 60 metres west of it, marks the HaTziyonut service road about 80 metres away as a car-park aisle, and maps a paid surface car park about 320 metres to the west.
No kashrut certificate was found. It is not among the 419 businesses on the Ashdod religious council's kashrut list, read on 1 October 2026, either by name, at 45 HaTziyonut Street or on Bnei Brit Boulevard. Its own pages show no certificate, it is open on Friday afternoon and on Saturday, and its menu has pork spareribs, pork steaks, shrimp, calamari and crab. mako's list of Ashdod's best restaurants of April 2025 marks it not kosher. It is listed as wheelchair accessible on rest.co.il.
No page of its own names the company that runs it. The Companies Registrar lists גמברינוס שלווה בע"מ, company number 515708519, described as a restaurant and registered at 45 HaTziyonut Street, Ashdod, the restaurant's own building: an active private company incorporated on 20 August 2017, which filed its last annual report for 2025.
The public registers a directory should check and usually does not. A blank is reported as a blank.
- Kosher certificate
- No kashrut certificate was found. It is not among the 419 businesses on the Ashdod religious council's kashrut list, read on 1 October 2026, either by name, at 45 HaTziyonut Street or on Bnei Brit Boulevard. Its own pages show no certificate, it is open on Friday afternoon and on Saturday, and its menu has pork spareribs, pork steaks, shrimp, calamari and crab. mako's list of Ashdod's best restaurants of April 2025 marks it not kosher. shirathayam.m-datit.org.il2026-10-01
- Accessibility statement
- Rest lists it among Ashdod's restaurants with access for people with disabilities, and OpenStreetMap marks the pub as wheelchair accessible, without an accessible toilet. Its website offers an accessibility toolbar; no accessibility statement was found on it. rest.co.il2026-10-01
- Companies Registrar
- No page of its own names the company that runs it. The Companies Registrar lists גמברינוס שלווה בע"מ, company number 515708519, described as a restaurant and registered at 45 HaTziyonut Street, Ashdod, the restaurant's own building: an active private company incorporated on 20 August 2017, which filed its last annual report for 2025. data.gov.il2026-10-01
- Municipal business licence
- It is not in Ashdod's list of businesses holding a business licence, dated 3 August 2026, under its name, its company's name, at 45 HaTziyonut Street or on Bnei Brit Boulevard. The list gives one row for each licence item, with the business's name, street, house number, item and expiry date, and many businesses appear in it under a name other than the one they trade under. ashdod.muni.il2026-10-01
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| Field | Value | Source | Read on | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | גמברינוס / Gambrinus | gambrinus.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Address | Bnei Brit Boulevard, corner of Menachem Begin Boulevard | gambrinus.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 31.7863772, 34.6458423 (OpenStreetMap) | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 08-865-5719 | gambrinus.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Website | gambrinus.co.il | gambrinus.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Opening hours | Sunday closed, Monday to Thursday 17:15 to 23:00, Friday 14:30 to 23:00, Saturday 12:30 to 23:00 | gambrinus.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| What happens here | Open from the afternoon | mako.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Google rating | 4.5 from 7255 ratings, as quoted by wanderlog.com | google.com | Fact, shown | |
| Google review text | Belongs to the reviewers | google.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Tripadvisor rating | 4.4 from 679 ratings, as quoted by wanderlog.com | tripadvisor.com | Fact, shown | |
| Tripadvisor review text | Belongs to the reviewers | tripadvisor.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Rest rating | 4.0 from 69 ratings | rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Rest review text | Belongs to the reviewers | rest.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Price band | ₪₪ | rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Menu | 18 items with prices | gambrinus.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | None published | shirathayam.m-datit.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | Wheelchair accessible | rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Parking | OpenStreetMap maps a car-park entrance about 60 metres west of it, marks the HaTziyonut service road about 80 metres away as a car-park aisle, and maps a paid surface car park about 320 metres to the west. | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | Ashdod Ad Halom 2.4 km; בני ברית 60 m; בני ברית 114 m; מרכז מסחרי/הציונות 236 m; הציונות/המאבק 273 m; העצמאות/תש״ח 276 m; העצמאות/הגשמה 285 m; הכלנית/הצבעוני 324 m; העצמאות/הציונות 337 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Delivery apps | Not on Wolt or 10bis | Our own check | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | No page of its own names the company that runs it. The Companies Registrar lists גמברינוס שלווה בע"מ, company number 515708519, described as a restaurant and registered at 45 HaTziyonut Street, Ashdod, the restaurant's own building: an active private company incorporated on 20 August 2017, which filed its last annual report for 2025. | data.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Business licence | It is not in Ashdod's list of businesses holding a business licence, dated 3 August 2026, under its name, its company's name, at 45 HaTziyonut Street or on Bnei Brit Boulevard. The list gives one row for each licence item, with the business's name, street, house number, item and expiry date, and many businesses appear in it under a name other than the one they trade under. | ashdod.muni.il | Fact, shown | |
| Photographs | 3 licensed | gambrinus.co.il | Linked, not copied |
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