Namaste
נמסטה
Restaurant · Indian · North Indian · ₪₪ · Ashdod religious council, meat
20 HaTayelet (the promenade), La Mimunia building, Ashdod
A family-run kosher Indian restaurant on Ashdod's seafront promenade since 1991, in the Moroccan-style La Mimunia building, with naan from a charcoal tandoor and Indian paintings on the walls
Namaste is a kosher Indian restaurant on HaTayelet, Ashdod's seafront promenade, inside the La Mimunia building, which by its own account is designed after Morocco and which Kan Darom described in 2017 as a palace complex by the beach. By its own account Yoel Sugaokar founded it in 1991, and the second generation runs it today. ynet told in 2023 that he and his wife Sybil came to Israel from Mumbai in 1983, named the restaurant after the Hindu greeting and are helped by their children and a team of cooks from India; in 2016 ynet had written that it grew from a small stall. Its kitchen, by its own account, is North Indian, with an Indian chef and cooks: samosas, pakoras and batata vada with chutney, tamarind and pickled lemon, naan baked to order in a charcoal tandoor that, by ynet's account, was brought from India, basmati rice and biryani, chicken, beef and vegetable curries made as hot as the guest asks, chicken tikka and seekh kebab from the tandoor, aloo gobi, palak and chana masala, falooda and kulfi, masala chai and a bar of beers, spirits and wines. The kitchen is kosher for meat, so by its own account yogurt is replaced with coconut cream, soy milk and non-dairy cream, and its paneer tikka masala is made with tofu. The room is in warm colours with original Indian paintings on the walls, and Indian music plays. From Sunday to Thursday, 12:00 to 16:00, it serves set lunches; it delivers in Ashdod and the moshavim around it, and caters events. mako's Lin Levi included it in April 2025 among 26 places to eat in Ashdod that mako is especially fond of, calling it a family Indian restaurant by the sea since 1991 with a huge, not very spicy menu, and ynet's Amir Kaminer wrote in 2023 that it had long since become an institution and that Indian celebrities visiting Israel have eaten there. It has served dal in the city's soup week and batata vada at its Peoples and Flavours festival.
What happens here
- Sunday to Thursday, 12:00 to 16:00
- Set lunches
Three set lunches, at 72, 76 and 79 shekels: naan from the tandoor, a fresh salad, three dips and papadam, then a chicken curry, a beef curry or chicken tikka masala together with a tandoor dish of choice (chicken tikka, rashmi tikka or seekh kebab), basmati rice, batata vada or vegetable pakora, a cold drink and a hot drink. A vegetarian set lunch costs 72 shekels, and the house dessert 10 more.
As published on namaste-ashdod.co.il, read 2026-10-01.
At a glance
- Shabbat
- Closed. Friday until 15:00
- Kosher
- Ashdod religious council, meat
- Diet
- Indian, north indian
- Prices
- ₪₪ of ₪₪₪
- Wheelchair
- Accessible entrance and step-free route, accessible toilets and furniture, disabled parking
- Parking
- Accessible parking listed
- Own website
- Active on Instagram
- Facebook page
- Open on Friday
- Good for families
Photos
On its Facebook
For illustration: the trade, not Namaste itself. Its own pictures: 133 posts on Instagram
Johor Haki, owner of the "joHoRkAki siNGApoRE TRAvEL FooD LiFEsTyLE BLoG". / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Opening hours
Checking the clock in Israel
| Sunday to Thursday | 12:00-16:00, 18:30-23:00 |
|---|---|
| Friday | 11:00-15:00 |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sukkot | 26 September to 2 October |
| Simchat Torah | 3 Octoberfrom Friday evening |
Namaste 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 namaste-ashdod.co.il, read 2026-10-01. All Shabbat times
Sources disagree on these hours
Its website gives Sunday to Thursday 12:00 to 16:00 and 18:30 to 23:00, and Friday 11:00 to 15:00; its booking page says it is closed on Saturday and takes table bookings until 22:30 on weekdays. Its Google listing, as Wanderlog copies it, mako's list of April 2025 and the city's tourism site give the same hours. On Wolt it takes orders from 12:00 to 15:30 and 18:30 to 22:30 from Sunday to Thursday and from 11:00 to 15:00 on Friday; those are delivery hours. An older listing on ROL gives evenings only on weekdays, Friday 12:00 to 16:00 and Saturday night from 20:00.
Location
20 HaTayelet (the promenade), La Mimunia building, Ashdod
- Train: Ashdod Ad Halom4.9 km from the door, straight line
- Bus: Nearest stop 58 mlines 4א, 7, 9א
- Parking: Accessible parking listedIts contact page lists disabled parking, and the city's tourism site lists free parking. OpenStreetMap maps car parks about 110 metres to the east-south-east and 125 metres to the east-north-east.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-01.
Reviews
- Google4.42159 ratings · As quoted by wanderlog.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Google
- Rest4.097 ratings · Read 2026-10-01Read on Rest
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Questions
About Namaste
- Closed on ShabbatOpen 6 days a week; on Friday it closes at 15:00.
- 2,256 public ratingsAcross Google, Rest, each linked below with the day we read it.
- 4.9 km from Ashdod Ad Halom stationBus stops within 349 m: הטיילת/מקס נורדאו, מקס נורדאו/קדושי בלזן, מרכז קליטה ב/מרטין בובר, הטיילת/סמטת אל הים.
- Its own website and social pagesThe menu and the news come from the business itself, not from a directory.
- Price band ₪₪Rest puts it in its second price band, at 60 to 120 shekels, and Wolt in its second band too. On the menu its website shows, updated in October 2025, the first courses cost 26 to 76 shekels, the naan breads 9 to 36, the rice dishes 19 to 78, the meat and chicken curries 72 to 76, the vegetarian dishes 36 to 44, the tandoor dishes 40 to 92, with a mixed grill platter at 172, and the desserts 12 to 48. The set lunches cost 72, 76 and 79 shekels.
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Namaste is a restaurant at 20 HaTayelet (the promenade), La Mimunia building in Ashdod, in the Southern District. Behind it: founder Yoel Sugaokar.
It publishes its menu on namaste-ashdod.co.il; 18 of its dishes are listed below with their prices, as read on 1 October 2026.
Hours, as listed on namaste-ashdod.co.il on 1 October 2026: Sunday to Thursday 12:00 to 16:00 and 18:30 to 23:00, Friday 11:00 to 15:00, Saturday closed.
The nearest railway station is Ashdod Ad Halom, 4.9 km away. The nearest bus stops are הטיילת/מקס נורדאו (58 m), מקס נורדאו/קדושי בלזן (139 m), מרכז קליטה ב/מרטין בובר (194 m). Its contact page lists disabled parking, and the city's tourism site lists free parking. OpenStreetMap maps car parks about 110 metres to the east-south-east and 125 metres to the east-north-east.
Kosher: the Ashdod religious council's list of kosher businesses, read on 1 October 2026, has "מסעדת נמסטה" at the La Mimunia building, with one of its owners as the certificate holder; the list gives no level, type or dates for Ashdod's businesses. Its website calls it a kosher Indian restaurant and its set-lunch menu carries a kosher mark, and its own text on the city's tourism site says it serves kosher meat Indian food, with coconut cream, soy milk and non-dairy cream in place of yogurt. No source calls it mehadrin. Wolt, Rest and mako also mark it kosher. Its contact page says the restaurant has accessible toilets, accessible furniture, an accessible entrance door, a step-free route and disabled parking, and no induction loop. The accessibility statement on its website covers the website. The city's tourism site also marks it accessible for people with disabilities.
The name does not appear in the Companies Registrar, which points to a sole proprietorship or partnership rather than a company. It appears on the municipal business licence register.
נמסטה היא ברכת ה"שלום" המקובלת בתרבות ההינדית, וגם אנחנו מברכים את הסועדים אצלנו לשלום ולא פחות חשוב – לארוחה נפלאה. החלל היפה והמפואר, שמעוצב בצבעים חמים ובעזרת ציורים הודיים מקוריים על הקירות, הוא רקע הולם לחגיגת הצבעים, הריחות והטעמים שמתרחשת על השולחן שלכם.The public registers a directory should check and usually does not. A blank is reported as a blank.
- Kosher certificate
- Kosher: the Ashdod religious council's list of kosher businesses, read on 1 October 2026, has "מסעדת נמסטה" at the La Mimunia building, with one of its owners as the certificate holder; the list gives no level, type or dates for Ashdod's businesses. Its website calls it a kosher Indian restaurant and its set-lunch menu carries a kosher mark, and its own text on the city's tourism site says it serves kosher meat Indian food, with coconut cream, soy milk and non-dairy cream in place of yogurt. No source calls it mehadrin. Wolt, Rest and mako also mark it kosher. shirathayam.m-datit.org.il2026-10-01
- Accessibility statement
- Its contact page says the restaurant has accessible toilets, accessible furniture, an accessible entrance door, a step-free route and disabled parking, and no induction loop. The accessibility statement on its website covers the website. The city's tourism site also marks it accessible for people with disabilities. namaste-ashdod.co.il2026-10-01
- Companies Registrar
- Its website names no operating company. The Companies Registrar has four companies named נמסטה, none of them at an Ashdod address, and none named סוגאוקר. Its Wolt page gives the name נמסטה with business number 558099255, which is in neither the Companies Registrar nor the register of partnerships. The religious council's kashrut list gives a private person, not a company, as the certificate holder. data.gov.il2026-10-01
- Municipal business licence
- Ashdod's list of businesses holding a business licence, dated 3 August 2026, has "מסעדת נמסטה" at נורדאו 10, with one licence item, 4.2א, a restaurant, valid to 31 December 2031. ashdod.muni.il2026-10-01
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| Field | Value | Source | Read on | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | נמסטה / Namaste | namaste-ashdod.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Address | 20 HaTayelet (the promenade), La Mimunia building | namaste-ashdod.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 31.8111122, 34.6391336 (the Waze link on its website) | namaste-ashdod.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 08-856-2437 | namaste-ashdod.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Website | namaste-ashdod.co.il | namaste-ashdod.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Table bookings | namaste-ashdod.co.il | namaste-ashdod.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Logo | Its own icon, from namaste-ashdod.co.il | namaste-ashdod.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Opening hours | Sunday to Thursday 12:00 to 16:00 and 18:30 to 23:00, Friday 11:00 to 15:00, Saturday closed | namaste-ashdod.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| What happens here | Set lunches | namaste-ashdod.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Google rating | 4.4 from 2159 ratings, as quoted by wanderlog.com | google.com | Fact, shown | |
| Google review text | Belongs to the reviewers | google.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Rest rating | 4.0 from 97 ratings | rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Rest review text | Belongs to the reviewers | rest.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Price band | ₪₪ | namaste-ashdod.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Menu | 18 items with prices | namaste-ashdod.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | Ashdod religious council, meat | shirathayam.m-datit.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | Accessible entrance and step-free route, accessible toilets and furniture, disabled parking | namaste-ashdod.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Parking | Its contact page lists disabled parking, and the city's tourism site lists free parking. OpenStreetMap maps car parks about 110 metres to the east-south-east and 125 metres to the east-north-east. | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | Ashdod Ad Halom 4.9 km; הטיילת/מקס נורדאו 58 m; מקס נורדאו/קדושי בלזן 139 m; מרכז קליטה ב/מרטין בובר 194 m; מקס נורדאו/קדושי בלזן 223 m; הטיילת/מקס נורדאו 284 m; הטיילת/סמטת אל הים 349 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Delivery apps | Wolt | wolt.com | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | Its website names no operating company. The Companies Registrar has four companies named נמסטה, none of them at an Ashdod address, and none named סוגאוקר. Its Wolt page gives the name נמסטה with business number 558099255, which is in neither the Companies Registrar nor the register of partnerships. The religious council's kashrut list gives a private person, not a company, as the certificate holder. | data.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Business licence | Ashdod's list of businesses holding a business licence, dated 3 August 2026, has "מסעדת נמסטה" at נורדאו 10, with one licence item, 4.2א, a restaurant, valid to 31 December 2031. | ashdod.muni.il | Fact, shown | |
| The owners' own words | Quoted from namaste-ashdod.co.il | namaste-ashdod.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 2 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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