Branja
ברנז'ה
Café · Restaurant · Breakfast · Brunch · Coffee and pastries · ₪₪ · No kosher certificate
Tourist Centre, 9 Derech Yotam, Eilat
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.
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
Photos
On its Facebook
For illustration: the trade, not Branja itself. Its own pictures: 528 posts on Instagram
Opening hours
Checking the clock in Israel
| Sunday to Wednesday | 08:00-22:00 |
|---|---|
| Thursday and Friday | 08:00-23:00 |
| Saturday | 17:00-23:00 |
| Sukkot | 26 September to 2 October |
| Simchat Torah | 3 Octoberfrom Friday evening |
Branja has not published holiday hours. Call before you go. Sukkot: the dates and times
Candle lighting 6:05 PMShabbat ends 6:59 PM
As published on Restaurant Guru, read 2026-09-29. All Shabbat times
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
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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Branja is a café at Tourist Centre, 9 Derech Yotam in Eilat, in the Southern District. Behind it: Kfir Klaro and Gal Cohen Akad. It is also a restaurant.
It publishes its menu on Tabit; 18 of its dishes are listed below with their prices, as read on 29 September 2026.
Hours, as listed on Restaurant Guru on 29 September 2026: Sunday to Wednesday 08:00 to 22:00, Thursday and Friday 08:00 to 23:00, Saturday 17:00 to 23:00.
The nearest bus stops are קניון מול הים/דרך מצריים (185 m), מלון קלאב הוטל/דרך מצריים (273 m), קניון מול הים (285 m). 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.
No kashrut certificate: it is not among the 200 businesses on the Eilat religious council's list of supervised businesses, as read on the council's website on 29 September 2026, a search for it on the national kosher-business site that the list links found no business by its name, and its own pages show no certificate. Its menu has chicken breast in a cream sauce, and it opens on Saturday. mako's guide of May 2026 and the directories Karamel and GoNegev list it as not kosher. It is listed as wheelchair accessible on restaurantguru.com.
Its Wolt page names כ.ג. ברנג׳ה אילת בע"מ, company number 514994672, as the business behind it. The Companies Registrar lists the company as כ.ג. ברנז'ה אילת בע"מ, in English K.G. BRANJA EILAT LTD: an active private company, incorporated on 25 November 2013, with its address at 9 Derech Yotam, Eilat, postcode 8803212, the address its ordering page gives. No page of the café itself states the company number. Eilat does not publish its business licence register online, so the licence could not be checked.
בית קפה - מסעדה מודרני, הממוקם בלב אזור התיירות והבילויים של אילת. בתפריט תוכלו למצוא מגוון מנות פתיחה, כריכים, מבחר ארוחות בוקר, סלטים, פסטות, ועיקריות בשריות וחלביות. המקום מקבל בידיים פתוחות לקוחות בכל מצבי הרוח – ארוחת בוקר קלה, קפה ועוגה, בראנץ’, ארוחת ערב או קוקטייל באווירה טובה.The public registers a directory should check and usually does not. A blank is reported as a blank.
- Kosher certificate
- No kashrut certificate: it is not among the 200 businesses on the Eilat religious council's list of supervised businesses, as read on the council's website on 29 September 2026, a search for it on the national kosher-business site that the list links found no business by its name, and its own pages show no certificate. Its menu has chicken breast in a cream sauce, and it opens on Saturday. mako's guide of May 2026 and the directories Karamel and GoNegev list it as not kosher. datiteilat.co.il2026-09-29
- Accessibility statement
- It has no website, so there is no accessibility statement. Its Google listing, as Restaurant Guru copies it, marks it wheelchair accessible, and the directories GoNegev and Karamel list it as accessible to people with disabilities; no source says whether the toilet is accessible. restaurantguru.com2026-09-29
- Companies Registrar
- Its Wolt page names כ.ג. ברנג׳ה אילת בע"מ, company number 514994672, as the business behind it. The Companies Registrar lists the company as כ.ג. ברנז'ה אילת בע"מ, in English K.G. BRANJA EILAT LTD: an active private company, incorporated on 25 November 2013, with its address at 9 Derech Yotam, Eilat, postcode 8803212, the address its ordering page gives. No page of the café itself states the company number. data.gov.il2026-09-29
- Municipal business licence
- Eilat's municipality publishes no register of licensed businesses on its current site: its old page listing businesses with a valid licence now opens the home page, its licensing division's page has processes and forms only, and data.gov.il has nothing for Eilat. eilat.muni.il2026-09-29
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| Field | Value | Source | Read on | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | ברנז'ה / Branja | facebook.com | Fact, shown | |
| Address | Tourist Centre, 9 Derech Yotam | tabitisrael.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 29.5514681, 34.9518588 (OpenStreetMap) | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 08-864-9900 | tabitisrael.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Table bookings | tabitisrael.co.il | ontopo.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Logo | Its own icon, from tabitisrael.co.il | tabitisrael.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Opening hours | Sunday to Wednesday 08:00 to 22:00, Thursday and Friday 08:00 to 23:00, Saturday 17:00 to 23:00 | restaurantguru.com | Fact, shown | |
| What happens here | Mum's chraime; Acoustic shows | mako.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Google rating | 4.6 from 2187 ratings, as quoted by restaurantguru.com | google.com | Fact, shown | |
| Google review text | Belongs to the reviewers | google.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Tripadvisor rating | 4.7 from 390 ratings, as quoted by restaurantguru.com | tripadvisor.com | Fact, shown | |
| Tripadvisor review text | Belongs to the reviewers | tripadvisor.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Rest rating | 4.0 from 7 ratings | rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Rest review text | Belongs to the reviewers | rest.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Price band | ₪₪ | tabitisrael.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Menu | 18 items with prices | tabitisrael.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | None published | datiteilat.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | Wheelchair accessible | restaurantguru.com | Fact, shown | |
| 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.org | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | קניון מול הים/דרך מצריים 185 m; מלון קלאב הוטל/דרך מצריים 273 m; קניון מול הים 285 m; מלון קלאב הוטל/דרך מצריים 293 m; קניון מול הים/דרבן 309 m; דרך הערבה/שדרות התמרים 331 m; דרך הערבה/יותם 372 m; שדרות התמרים/גן בנימין 412 m; שדרות התמרים/שפיפון 439 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Delivery apps | Wolt | wolt.com | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | Its Wolt page names כ.ג. ברנג׳ה אילת בע"מ, company number 514994672, as the business behind it. The Companies Registrar lists the company as כ.ג. ברנז'ה אילת בע"מ, in English K.G. BRANJA EILAT LTD: an active private company, incorporated on 25 November 2013, with its address at 9 Derech Yotam, Eilat, postcode 8803212, the address its ordering page gives. No page of the café itself states the company number. | data.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Business licence | Eilat's municipality publishes no register of licensed businesses on its current site: its old page listing businesses with a valid licence now opens the home page, its licensing division's page has processes and forms only, and data.gov.il has nothing for Eilat. | eilat.muni.il | Fact, shown | |
| The owners' own words | Quoted from its booking page on Tabit | tabitisrael.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 3 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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