Kampai
קמפאי
Restaurant · Bar · Asian · Sushi · Wok dishes · ₪₪ · No kosher certificate
1 Heil HaHandasa Street, BIG Center, Beer Sheva
The Kampai group's first restaurant: sushi, wok dishes and a big cocktail bar in the BIG centre since 2008, open seven days a week
Kampai is an Asian restaurant and sushi bar in the BIG shopping centre on Heil HaHandasa Street in Beer Sheva. Its name is Japanese for "cheers", which, by its own account, is how it receives its guests. It opened in 2008, founded, as Calcalist told it in 2013, by the brothers Yossi and Roi Schwartz, who had opened the Forum club in 1988, with their partners Alon Elbaz, Golan Butbul and Assaf Abutbul; in 2014 mako described a 600-square-metre restaurant feeding more than 450 diners on a working day. It was the first restaurant of what became the Kampai group, which today also runs KEPASA, HaSifria, Koh Thai, Kampai Street Wok, Shifra and Chi-Chi, the balcony bar where seating starts at 19:00 and is for over-18s. The group chef, Dror Shushan, is responsible for its dishes. The menu runs from sushi, with hosomaki, uramaki, nigiri, special rolls such as the sunset roll and the volcano roll, and combinations, to starters such as Korean cauliflower and mandu dumplings, salads, ramen, noodles and rice from the wok, steamed buns, an entrecôte and a salmon fillet from the grill, a kids' meal and a vegan menu, beside a bar of wine, beer and cocktails mixed by its bartenders. In October 2025 mako's Lin Levi chose its Vietnamese sirloin salad as Beer Sheva's dish in "30 dishes, 30 cities", writing that it has been served since the day the restaurant opened, and named the sunset roll and the chow chow noodles among its highlights. mako's 2022 guide called it one of the best-known restaurants in Beer Sheva, if not the best known, and ynet's Liad Verber put the veteran Asian restaurant among 15 places not to miss in the city that year. Business lunches are served at midday from Sunday to Thursday, and it is open on Friday and Saturday too.
What happens here
- Sunday to Thursday, 12:00 to 17:00
- Business lunch
A main dish at 79, 89 or 129 shekels, with a starter and a soft or hot drink from the menu. It is not served on holiday eves or holidays.
- Every evening from 19:00
- Chi-Chi, the balcony bar
Its booking page says seating at Chi-Chi starts at 19:00 and is for over-18s only.
As published on kampai.co.il, read 2026-10-01.
At a glance
- Shabbat
- Open Saturday 12:00-00:00
- Kosher
- No certificate
- Diet
- Asian, sushi, wok dishes
- Prices
- ₪₪ of ₪₪₪
- Wheelchair
- Accessible entrance and toilets, disabled parking in the BIG car park, an induction loop at the host stand
- Parking
- Accessible parking listed
- Own website
- Active on Instagram
- Facebook page
- Open on Friday
- Vegan options
- Takeaway
- Good for families
Photos
On its Facebook
For illustration: the trade, not Kampai itself. Its own pictures: 262 posts on Instagram
Opening hours
Checking the clock in Israel
| Every day | 12:00-00:00 |
|---|---|
| Sukkot | 26 September to 2 October |
| Simchat Torah | 3 Octoberfrom Friday evening |
Kampai has not published holiday hours. Call before you go. Sukkot: the dates and times
Candle lighting 6:05 PMShabbat ends 7:00 PM
As published on kampai.co.il, read 2026-10-01. All Shabbat times
Sources disagree on these hours
Its website gives 12:00 to midnight every day from Sunday to Saturday at the foot of each of its pages; the block above it on its home page says 12:00 to 00:30, as ynet printed in 2022. The weekly schedule of its Tabit bookings, last changed on 16 September 2026, keeps Friday and Saturday open until 01:00. Its Google listing, as Wanderlog copies it, has 12:00 to midnight every day, while the copy in its Tabit record, dated 7 September 2026, has 09:30 to 23:30 on Saturday. Business lunches are served from Sunday to Thursday between 12:00 and 17:00, and seating at Chi-Chi, its balcony bar, starts at 19:00. Wolt takes delivery orders from 11:45 to midnight, with a pause on Friday between 19:00 and 21:30; those are ordering hours.
Location
1 Heil HaHandasa Street, BIG Center, Beer Sheva8489956
- Train: Be'er Sheva Center1.3 km from the door, straight line
- Bus: Nearest stop 26 mlines 13, 16, 25, 29
- Parking: Accessible parking listedIts accessibility page says there is disabled parking in the BIG car park. OpenStreetMap maps a free open-air car park about 70 metres to the south and car parks about 75 and 140 metres to the east, inside the BIG centre.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-01.
Reviews
- Google4.35047 ratings · As quoted by wanderlog.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Google
- Tripadvisor4.1466 ratings · As quoted by wanderlog.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Tripadvisor
- Rest3.568 ratings · Read 2026-10-01Read on Rest
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Questions
About Kampai
- Restaurant and bar in oneIt trades as both, under one name at one address.
- Open on ShabbatOn Saturday it is open 12:00 to 00:00.
- 5,581 public ratingsAcross Google, Tripadvisor, Rest, each linked below with the day we read it.
- 1.3 km from Be'er Sheva Center stationBus stops within 481 m: מרכז ביג/חיל ההנדסה, מרכז קניות ביג/דרך אליהו נאוי, יצחק נפחא/אליהו נאוי, מרכז ביג/המשק, מרכז קניות/דרך אליהו נאוי, דרך אליהו נאוי/יוסף הבורסקאי, מפעל חסין אש.
- 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 the second of four price bands, at 60 to 120 shekels a person, and its Google listing, as the copy in its Tabit record gives it, is in the second of four bands too. On its own ordering page on 1 October 2026 the starters cost 24 to 54 shekels, the salads 42 to 69, the ramen 66 and 77, the wok dishes 64 to 89, the special rolls 39 to 86 and the sushi combinations 79 to 174. Its business lunches cost 79, 89 or 129 shekels with a starter and a drink.
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Kampai is a restaurant at 1 Heil HaHandasa Street, BIG Center in Beer Sheva, in the Southern District. Behind it: co-founder Yossi Schwartz, co-founder Roi Schwartz, and group chef Dror Shushan. It is also a bar.
It publishes its menu on Tabit; 18 of its dishes are listed below with their prices, as read on 1 October 2026.
Hours, as listed on kampai.co.il on 1 October 2026: Every day 12:00 to 00:00.
The nearest railway station is Be'er Sheva Center, 1.3 km away. The nearest bus stops are מרכז ביג/חיל ההנדסה (26 m), מרכז קניות ביג/דרך אליהו נאוי (52 m), יצחק נפחא/אליהו נאוי (146 m). Its accessibility page says there is disabled parking in the BIG car park. OpenStreetMap maps a free open-air car park about 70 metres to the south and car parks about 75 and 140 metres to the east, inside the BIG centre.
No kashrut certificate was found. Kampai is not among the 578 businesses in the Beer Sheva religious council's kashrut directory, read on 1 October 2026, by its name or at its address; the directory's "קמפאי טוגו בע"מ" at Heil HaHandasa is another company, Kampai Togo Ltd, which the city's licence register lists as Kampai Togo (Express). ikr.org.il has no business by its name. Its own pages show no certificate, it opens on Saturday, and its menu serves cheese rolls and dairy desserts beside beef. mako listed it as not kosher in October 2025, and an older entry on the city's tourism site tags it "ללא תעודה" (without a certificate). Its accessibility arrangements page says the restaurant has an accessible entrance, equipped accessible toilets, an induction loop at the host stand and disabled parking in the BIG car park, and has no wayfinding signs or tactile warning strips. An older entry on the city's tourism site also tags it accessible.
Its privacy policy names קמפאי בע"מ, company number 513996405, as the owner of the website and the operator of the restaurant, and as the owner of the Kampai group. The Companies Registrar lists קמפאי בע~מ, an active private company incorporated on 25 June 2007, which filed its last annual report for 2026 and is registered at 25 Yitzhak Nafcha Street in Beer Sheva, the Mivne compound where the group's HaSifria stands. It appears on the municipal business licence register.
קמפאי באר שבע הינה המסעדה המובילה בבאר שבע כבר למעלה מ-17 שנים. פירוש המילה "קמפאי" ביפנית הוא לחיים ובדרך זו אנו מקבלים את לקוחותינו. עם השנים הפכה "קמפאי" למוסד קולינארי מוביל ונחשב בבאר שבע ובארץ. קמפאי מתמחה במטבח האסייתי ומציעה מטבח סושי איכותי, מנות פתיחה ומנות ווק.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. Kampai is not among the 578 businesses in the Beer Sheva religious council's kashrut directory, read on 1 October 2026, by its name or at its address; the directory's "קמפאי טוגו בע"מ" at Heil HaHandasa is another company, Kampai Togo Ltd, which the city's licence register lists as Kampai Togo (Express). ikr.org.il has no business by its name. Its own pages show no certificate, it opens on Saturday, and its menu serves cheese rolls and dairy desserts beside beef. mako listed it as not kosher in October 2025, and an older entry on the city's tourism site tags it "ללא תעודה" (without a certificate). mdb7.org.il2026-10-01
- Accessibility statement
- Its accessibility arrangements page says the restaurant has an accessible entrance, equipped accessible toilets, an induction loop at the host stand and disabled parking in the BIG car park, and has no wayfinding signs or tactile warning strips. An older entry on the city's tourism site also tags it accessible. kampai.co.il2026-10-01
- Companies Registrar
- Its privacy policy names קמפאי בע"מ, company number 513996405, as the owner of the website and the operator of the restaurant, and as the owner of the Kampai group. The Companies Registrar lists קמפאי בע~מ, an active private company incorporated on 25 June 2007, which filed its last annual report for 2026 and is registered at 25 Yitzhak Nafcha Street in Beer Sheva, the Mivne compound where the group's HaSifria stands. data.gov.il2026-10-01
- Municipal business licence
- Beer Sheva's register of licensed businesses, last updated on 28 July 2026, lists "קמפאי וצ'יצ'י" under the same company number, 513996405, at 2 Sderot Heil HaHandasa, with three renewable licences, one for a restaurant and two for a restaurant serving alcohol, each valid until 31 December 2034. data.gov.il2026-10-01
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| Field | Value | Source | Read on | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | קמפאי / Kampai | kampai.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Address | 1 Heil HaHandasa Street, BIG Center | wolt.com | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 31.2443532, 34.8115504 (OpenStreetMap) | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 08-665-5999 | kampai.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | The Kampai group's line for deliveries and table bookings *5835 | kampaigroup.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Website | kampai.co.il | kampai.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Table bookings | tabitisrael.co.il | kampai.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Logo | Its own icon, from kampai.co.il | kampai.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Opening hours | Every day 12:00 to 00:00 | kampai.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| What happens here | Business lunch; Chi-Chi, the balcony bar | kampai.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Google rating | 4.3 from 5047 ratings, as quoted by wanderlog.com | google.com | Fact, shown | |
| Google review text | Belongs to the reviewers | google.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Tripadvisor rating | 4.1 from 466 ratings, as quoted by wanderlog.com | tripadvisor.com | Fact, shown | |
| Tripadvisor review text | Belongs to the reviewers | tripadvisor.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Rest rating | 3.5 from 68 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 | kampai.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | None published | mdb7.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | Accessible entrance and toilets, disabled parking in the BIG car park, an induction loop at the host stand | kampai.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Parking | Its accessibility page says there is disabled parking in the BIG car park. OpenStreetMap maps a free open-air car park about 70 metres to the south and car parks about 75 and 140 metres to the east, inside the BIG centre. | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | Be'er Sheva Center 1.3 km; מרכז ביג/חיל ההנדסה 26 m; מרכז קניות ביג/דרך אליהו נאוי 52 m; מרכז קניות ביג/דרך אליהו נאוי 75 m; יצחק נפחא/אליהו נאוי 146 m; מרכז ביג/המשק 210 m; מרכז קניות/דרך אליהו נאוי 256 m; דרך אליהו נאוי/יוסף הבורסקאי 323 m; מפעל חסין אש 481 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Delivery apps | Wolt | wolt.com | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | Its privacy policy names קמפאי בע"מ, company number 513996405, as the owner of the website and the operator of the restaurant, and as the owner of the Kampai group. The Companies Registrar lists קמפאי בע~מ, an active private company incorporated on 25 June 2007, which filed its last annual report for 2026 and is registered at 25 Yitzhak Nafcha Street in Beer Sheva, the Mivne compound where the group's HaSifria stands. | data.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Business licence | Beer Sheva's register of licensed businesses, last updated on 28 July 2026, lists "קמפאי וצ'יצ'י" under the same company number, 513996405, at 2 Sderot Heil HaHandasa, with three renewable licences, one for a restaurant and two for a restaurant serving alcohol, each valid until 31 December 2034. | data.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| The owners' own words | Quoted from kampai.co.il | kampai.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 3 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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