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Branja

ברנז'ה

Café · Restaurant · Breakfast · Brunch · Coffee and pastries · ₪₪ · No kosher certificate

Tourist Centre, 9 Derech Yotam, Eilat

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A neighbourhood café and restaurant in Eilat's Tourist Centre, opened in 2014 by two friends who grew up in the town, with breakfast, brunch and dinner

Branja is a café and restaurant in Eilat's Tourist Centre, opposite the mall, run by Kfir Klaro and Gal Cohen Akad, childhood friends from the same Eilat neighbourhood who came back from New York and Tel Aviv wanting a real café (Walla, 2017). It opened in 2014: Klaro told ynet in June 2020 that it had turned six during the lockdown. Time Out explained that a branja is a group of friends, and its own line is "coffee, kitchen and friends". Its booking page describes a modern café and restaurant with starters, sandwiches, breakfasts, salads, pastas and meat and dairy main courses, for anything from a light breakfast or coffee and cake to brunch, dinner or a cocktail. The menu also has vegan dishes, dishes marked gluten-free, a children's menu, fresh juices and beer; on Fridays there is Mum's chraime, tilapia in a spicy red sauce, and a brunch box for two is delivered to your home or the beach. Tables can be booked online, inside and at the inside bar, where there is no smoking, or outside, at tables or the outdoor bar, with a non-smoking area. Channel 13 wrote in May 2025 that its stage has hosted acoustic shows for years. mako's guide to the best places to eat in Eilat in 2026 put it among the cafés for brunch and lunch, calling it the most neighbourhood, most Tel Aviv café in Eilat, where Eilatis have eaten their brunch for 12 years and where you mostly meet the town's residents, and named its cheese melt, avocado toast with a poached egg and pancakes with bacon.

25 facts checked 2026-09-29

What happens here

Fridays
Mum's chraime

Only on Fridays: Mum's chraime, tilapia in a spicy red sauce with chickpeas, with fresh challah, a spicy tomato salad, cabbage salad with lemon and tahini, at 92 shekels on its ordering menu. It was already on the menu when Time Out wrote about the café in 2017.

Winter evenings
Acoustic shows

Channel 13 wrote in May 2025 that its stage has hosted acoustic shows by artists for years, and Walla wrote in 2017 that intimate shows were held there once a month in winter.

As published on mako, read 2026-09-29.

At a glance

Shabbat
Open Saturday 17:00-23:00
Kosher
No certificate
Diet
Breakfast, brunch, coffee and pastries, gluten-free options
Prices
₪₪ of ₪₪₪
Seating
Outdoor seating
Wheelchair
Accessible
  • Active on Instagram
  • Facebook page
  • Open on Friday
  • Breakfast
  • Brunch
  • Coffee
  • Pastries and cakes
  • Café and bar
  • Fresh juice
  • Vegan options
  • Good for families
  • Takeaway

1 of the 6 cafés in Eilat hold a kosher certificate

2 of the 6 cafés in Eilat are open on Saturday

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Photos

On its Facebook

For illustration: the trade, not Branja itself. Its own pictures: 528 posts on Instagram

Shakshuka in a metal pan: eggs baked in tomato sauce, sprinkled with herbs

Kjetil Ree / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Shakshuka in its pan; here the Israeli shakshuka comes with a mini challah, tahini and a chopped salad
Fish in a spicy red sauce, the North African way; here Mum's chraime, tilapia with chickpeas, is served on Fridays only
A cup of coffee with a swan drawn in its milk foam

Abdulrohmatt / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

A cup of coffee with a swan in its milk foam; here the café opens at eight in the morning, Sunday to Friday

Opening hours

Checking the clock in Israel

Opening hours by day
Sunday
08:00-22:00
Monday
08:00-22:00
Tuesday
08:00-22:00
Wednesday
08:00-22:00
Thursday
08:00-23:00
Friday
08:00-23:00
Saturday
17:00-23:00

Candle lighting 4:23 PMShabbat ends 5:20 PM

As published on Restaurant Guru, read 2026-09-29. Shabbat times in Eilat

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Sources disagree on these hours

These are the hours of its Google listing, as Restaurant Guru copies it (updated on 15 August 2026), as its Tabit record copied it on 11 September 2026 and as Wanderlog shows it. The weekly schedule on its Tabit booking page, last changed in August 2025, gives 08:00 to 23:00 from Sunday to Friday and 17:00 to 23:00 on Saturday, as Channel 13 did in May 2025, and its page on Ontopo gives 08:00 to 23:00 every day; so from Sunday to Wednesday the sources differ on whether it closes at 22:00 or 23:00. Its booking page says the kitchen closes from 12:00 to 12:30, Sunday to Friday, to change menus. Its Tabit ordering page takes takeaway and delivery orders until 22:05, and until 22:30 from Thursday to Saturday, and Wolt delivers from 12:30 to 22:00, on Saturday from 17:00. d.co.il gives Sunday to Thursday 07:30 to 19:30 and Friday 09:00 to 13:00, and the English page of the tourism site eilat.city and GoNegev, like Walla and Time Out in 2017, give hours until 01:00.

Location

Map showing Branja at Tourist Centre, 9 Derech Yotam, Eilat

Tourist Centre, 9 Derech Yotam, Eilat8803212

  • Bus: Nearest stop 185 mlines 11, 15, 30
  • Parking: OpenStreetMap maps unnamed car parks about 80 metres north and 90 metres west of the café, and three more within 200 metres.The Karamel directory lists both paid and free parking.

© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-09-29.

Reviews

  • Google4.62187 ratings · As quoted by restaurantguru.com, read 2026-09-29Read on Google
  • Tripadvisor4.7390 ratings · As quoted by restaurantguru.com, read 2026-09-29Read on Tripadvisor
  • Rest4.07 ratings · Read 2026-09-29Read on Rest

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Questions

About Branja

  • Café and restaurant in oneIt trades as both, under one name at one address.
  • Open on ShabbatOn Saturday it is open 17:00 to 23:00.
  • 2,584 public ratingsAcross Google, Tripadvisor, Rest, each linked below with the day we read it.
  • Price band ₪₪Its Google listing, as its Tabit record copied it, puts it at the second of four price levels, Wolt marks it $$, and Restaurant Guru gives 50 to 100 shekels a person. On its ordering menu of September 2026 the breakfast and brunch dishes cost 36 to 64 shekels, the sandwiches 46 to 58, the salads 38 to 68, the pastas 58 to 68 and the main courses 58 to 98, and a small latte is 13.

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