Petra
פטרה
Restaurant · Bar · Georgian · European · ₪₪ · No kosher certificate
1 Mafkura Street, Hof HaKshatot (Arches Beach), Ashdod
A Georgian restaurant and bar on the Arches beach in Ashdod, open from breakfast until one in the morning, with pastries from a stone oven and a terrace facing the sea
Petra is a Georgian restaurant and bar on the first line of the sea at the Arches beach (Hof HaKshatot) in Ashdod. Its owner, the restaurateur Simo Ben Hovel, told Walla in November 2024 that he had taken it over 18 years earlier, when it was a tiny pub facing the sea, and set out to focus on Georgian cooking to set it apart; a Calcalist piece of 2021, reposted on its website, says he had worked there in his youth, when it was a bar and hookah place on two levels. On its website he tells how his love of cooking began at 15, washing dishes in a small restaurant, went on through his army service as a cook, and won out over a well-paid job at the Israel Electric Corporation. The doughs are made on the premises and baked in a stone oven, and Ben Hovel told Walla that Georgian "mamas" make the khachapuri, the doughs and the fillings from scratch, beside a grill station and two cooks who lead the Italian side. The menu runs to more than a hundred dishes: khachapuri adjaruli, imeruli, lobiani, khinkali, chanakhi and kharcho soup, borscht, pelmeni and beef stroganoff, seafood and whole fish, entrecôte of Golan Heights beef, burgers, pasta and pizza, with breakfast from 09:00. A renovation begun before the Swords of Iron war doubled the restaurant and its kitchens and added a kitchen open to the room; it now seats about 350, with an indoor hall for events of up to 50 guests and a covered terrace facing the sea for up to 140. It opens every day until 01:00, Friday and Saturday included, and it is not kosher. Its website names Bel Miller as head chef and culinary adviser, and in June 2026 Buzzy Gordon of ynetnews reported that Channel 13's chef Charlie Fadida had become its executive chef, that its cooking is now called contemporary Georgian and international, and that it is invariably packed at weekends; in February 2025 he had written that everything about Petra is huge, from the premises to the portions. mako listed it among Ashdod's best restaurants in 2023 and again in April 2025, when it wrote that Petra and Trio, at the other end of the Arches beach, are veteran Georgian restaurants working since the early 2000s with almost the same menu; Trio's own website says it was founded by Avi Papismedov and his family.
What happens here
- Sunday to Thursday 09:00 to 17:00, Friday until 12:30, Saturday until 11:30
- Breakfast by the sea
Breakfasts cost 64 to 142 shekels: a Georgian breakfast of a small imeruli with a fried egg, Georgian salad, cream cheese, white ikra, salmon and olives at 88, syrniki with sour cream and berries at 64, shakshuka at 72, and the large "Hilton" breakfast at 86 or 142.
- Sunday to Thursday, 11:00 to 17:00
- Set lunches
Three set lunches at 119, 159 and 499 shekels, each with a soup, a starter, two khinkali, blini or stuffed vine leaves, a main course and a soft drink; the dearest offers three mains, among them the meat platter and entrecôte with foie gras.
As published on petrarest.co.il, read 2026-10-01.
At a glance
- Shabbat
- Open Saturday 09:00-01:00
- Kosher
- No certificate
- Diet
- Georgian, european
- Prices
- ₪₪ of ₪₪₪
- Seating
- Outdoor seating
- Wheelchair
- Accessible parking, tables and toilets, by its statement
- Parking
- Accessible parking listed
- Own website
- Active on Instagram
- Facebook page
- Open on Friday
- Breakfast
- Takeaway
- Vegan options
- Protected space on site
Photos
On its Facebook
For illustration: the trade, not Petra itself. Its own pictures: 1,313 posts on Instagram
Opening hours
Checking the clock in Israel
| Every day | 09:00-01:00 |
|---|---|
| Sukkot | 26 September to 2 October |
| Simchat Torah | 3 Octoberfrom Friday evening |
Petra 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 petrarest.co.il, read 2026-10-01. All Shabbat times
Sources disagree on these hours
Its website gives these hours on its set-lunch page and says the restaurant is open every day until 01:00, Saturdays and holidays included; ice printed the same hours in December 2025. Breakfast is served from Sunday to Thursday from 09:00 to 17:00, on Friday until 12:30 and on Saturday until 11:30, and the set lunches from Sunday to Thursday from 11:00 to 17:00. Its press page says orders and deliveries are taken until 02:00, ynetnews wrote in February 2025 that it stays open until the last guest leaves with orders taken until 01:00, and mako gave 09:00 to midnight in April 2025.
Location
1 Mafkura Street, Hof HaKshatot (Arches Beach), Ashdod
- Train: Ashdod Ad Halom4.3 km from the door, straight line
- Bus: Nearest stop 179 mlines 4, 4א
- Parking: Accessible parking listedIts website offers free parking. OpenStreetMap maps a car park about 85 metres to the east and another about 120 metres to the south, beside the Arches beach.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-01.
Reviews
- Google4.59994 ratings · As quoted by wanderlog.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Google
- Tripadvisor3.6255 ratings · As quoted by wanderlog.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Tripadvisor
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About Petra
- Restaurant and bar in oneIt trades as both, under one name at one address.
- Open on ShabbatOn Saturday it is open 09:00 to 01:00.
- 10,249 public ratingsAcross Google, Tripadvisor, each linked below with the day we read it.
- 4.3 km from Ashdod Ad Halom stationBus stops within 472 m: חוף גנדי/מפקורה, מפקורה/משה דיין, חוף הקשתות, רוגוזין/שד.משה דיין, אקסודוס/לילי.
- Its own website and social pagesThe menu and the news come from the business itself, not from a directory.
- Price band ₪₪On its own menu on 1 October 2026 the khachapuri and pies cost 64 to 78 shekels, the main courses 74 to 188 and the breakfasts 64 to 142, and its set lunches cost 119, 159 or 499 shekels.
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Petra is a restaurant at 1 Mafkura Street, Hof HaKshatot (Arches Beach) in Ashdod, in the Southern District. Behind it: owner Simo Ben Hovel, head chef and culinary adviser Bel Miller, and executive chef Charlie Fadida. It is also a bar.
It publishes its menu on petrarest.co.il; 18 of its dishes are listed below with their prices, as read on 1 October 2026.
Hours, as listed on petrarest.co.il on 1 October 2026: Every day 09:00 to 01:00.
The nearest railway station is Ashdod Ad Halom, 4.3 km away. The nearest bus stops are חוף גנדי/מפקורה (179 m), מפקורה/משה דיין (260 m), חוף הקשתות (276 m). Its website offers free parking. OpenStreetMap maps a car park about 85 metres to the east and another about 120 metres to the south, beside the Arches beach.
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, under its name or its company's name, and the list's rows for 1 Mafkura Street and the Arches beach are other businesses. Its own website says it is not kosher and that it opens on Friday and Saturday, and its menu has shrimp, calamari and mussels; mako and ynetnews also list it as not kosher. Its accessibility statement, updated in April 2024, says that every accessibility arrangement is in place, from the parking to a table in the restaurant and accessible toilets. Its other pages also mark it as wheelchair accessible.
Its accessibility statement names פטרה סדר בע"מ as its operator, and its website's footer reads מסעדת פטרה ס.ד.ר. The Companies Registrar lists פטרה ס.ד.ר. בע"מ, company number 514949528, registered at Moshe Dayan 1, Ashdod, care of the restaurant: an active private company incorporated on 12 August 2013, which filed its last annual report for 2023.
כל המנות מיוצרות על ידי טבחים המתמחים באוכל הגיאורגי. הבצקים מיוצרים במקום ונאפים בתוך תנור אבן כנהוג בגיאורגיה, התבשילים והמילויים מקורם במתכונים עתיקים. המסעדה ממוקמת על הקו הראשון לים, בחוף הקשתות באשדוד והיא טבולה בצמחייה ירוקה ובאווירה פסטורלית ונעימה.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, under its name or its company's name, and the list's rows for 1 Mafkura Street and the Arches beach are other businesses. Its own website says it is not kosher and that it opens on Friday and Saturday, and its menu has shrimp, calamari and mussels; mako and ynetnews also list it as not kosher. shirathayam.m-datit.org.il2026-10-01
- Accessibility statement
- Its accessibility statement, updated in April 2024, says that every accessibility arrangement is in place, from the parking to a table in the restaurant and accessible toilets. Its other pages also mark it as wheelchair accessible. petrarest.co.il2026-10-01
- Companies Registrar
- Its accessibility statement names פטרה סדר בע"מ as its operator, and its website's footer reads מסעדת פטרה ס.ד.ר. The Companies Registrar lists פטרה ס.ד.ר. בע"מ, company number 514949528, registered at Moshe Dayan 1, Ashdod, care of the restaurant: an active private company incorporated on 12 August 2013, which filed its last annual report for 2023. data.gov.il2026-10-01
- Municipal business licence
- Ashdod publishes a register of businesses holding a business licence, dated 3 August 2026. It has no row under Petra's name or its company's; at 1 Mafkura Street it lists a café, קפה הילה, and a venue for shows with a bar, היקב. The register gives many places a company or trading name that differs from the one they use. ashdod.muni.il2026-10-01
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| Field | Value | Source | Read on | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | פטרה / Petra | petrarest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Address | 1 Mafkura Street, Hof HaKshatot (Arches Beach) | petrarest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 31.8004143, 34.633649 (its Google listing, as its website links it) | google.com | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 08-865-1610 | petrarest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | WhatsApp 052-291-8853 | petrarest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Website | petrarest.co.il | petrarest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Logo | Its own icon, from petrarest.co.il | petrarest.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Opening hours | Every day 09:00 to 01:00 | petrarest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| What happens here | Breakfast by the sea; Set lunches | petrarest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Google rating | 4.5 from 9994 ratings, as quoted by wanderlog.com | google.com | Fact, shown | |
| Google review text | Belongs to the reviewers | google.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Tripadvisor rating | 3.6 from 255 ratings, as quoted by wanderlog.com | tripadvisor.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Tripadvisor review text | Belongs to the reviewers | tripadvisor.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Price band | ₪₪ | petrarest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Menu | 18 items with prices | petrarest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | None published | shirathayam.m-datit.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | Accessible parking, tables and toilets, by its statement | petrarest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Parking | Its website offers free parking. OpenStreetMap maps a car park about 85 metres to the east and another about 120 metres to the south, beside the Arches beach. | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | Ashdod Ad Halom 4.3 km; חוף גנדי/מפקורה 179 m; מפקורה/משה דיין 260 m; חוף הקשתות 276 m; רוגוזין/שד.משה דיין 383 m; אקסודוס/לילי 472 m; אקסודוס/לילי 482 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Delivery apps | Not on Wolt or 10bis | Our own check | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | Its accessibility statement names פטרה סדר בע"מ as its operator, and its website's footer reads מסעדת פטרה ס.ד.ר. The Companies Registrar lists פטרה ס.ד.ר. בע"מ, company number 514949528, registered at Moshe Dayan 1, Ashdod, care of the restaurant: an active private company incorporated on 12 August 2013, which filed its last annual report for 2023. | data.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Business licence | Ashdod publishes a register of businesses holding a business licence, dated 3 August 2026. It has no row under Petra's name or its company's; at 1 Mafkura Street it lists a café, קפה הילה, and a venue for shows with a bar, היקב. The register gives many places a company or trading name that differs from the one they use. | ashdod.muni.il | Fact, shown | |
| The owners' own words | Quoted from petrarest.co.il | petrarest.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 3 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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