Hamburger at Whale
המבורגר בלוויתן
Formerly Whale
Restaurant · Burgers · ₪₪ · No kosher certificate
Herods Palace hotel, 6 HaYam Street, Eilat
Lior Raphael and Inbar Shapira's burger restaurant at the Herods Palace hotel on Eilat's North Beach, their chef restaurant until 2020
Hamburger at Whale is the burger restaurant of Lior Raphael, a chef, and Inbar Shapira, a pastry chef, a couple born in Eilat who ran Hamasger 5 in the town's industrial zone from 2012 to January 2015. In 2015 they opened Whale (לוויתן), a chef restaurant with 85 seats in a building at the eastern end of the Herods promenade on the North Beach, with big windows onto the lagoon (its own site gives the year as 2016); Walla's critic Avi Efrati wrote in 2016 that it was a restaurant you would be glad to eat at in Tel Aviv too. Covid shut it for two and a half months, and at the start of June 2020 the couple reopened it as a burger restaurant under its present name, keeping two dishes from the old menu, the La Big Mess burger and the shrimp burger. Its 200 g patties are made daily in its own butchery from fresh meat and cooked medium-well, in buns its own bakers make, under the house Big Mess sauce of mayonnaise, cornichons, capers, pickled onion and a secret spice mix. In 2024 guests ordered at self-service machines and took a table inside or outside, with a view of the sea; in May 2026 mako wrote that the self-service burger bar had become a burger restaurant, with seats at the bar and at tables, and its booking page offers the bar, inside and outside. mako called its Lo Kshera, with smoked lamb and double cheddar in a milk bun baked on site, a burger with no equal in the country, and Walla's David Rosenthal wrote in 2022 that he had found a burger worth dying for there. Its website recommends booking ahead.
At a glance
- Shabbat
- Open Saturday 13:00-22:00
- Kosher
- No certificate
- Diet
- Burgers
- Prices
- ₪₪ of ₪₪₪
- Seating
- Outdoor seating
- Wheelchair
- Accessible entrance and toilets; accessible parking in the hotel's public car park
- Parking
- Accessible parking listed
- Own website
- Active on Instagram
- Facebook page
- Open on Friday
- Takeaway
- Takes credit cards
- Vegan options
Photos
On its Facebook
For illustration: the town and the trade, not Hamburger at Whale itself. Its own pictures: 54 posts on Instagram
Opening hours
Checking the clock in Israel
| Every day | 13:00-22:00 |
|---|---|
| Sukkot | 26 September to 2 October |
| Simchat Torah | 3 Octoberfrom Friday evening |
Hamburger at Whale 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 whale-eilat.com, read 2026-09-29. All Shabbat times
Sources disagree on these hours
Its website says it is open every day from 13:00 to 22:00, and its booking schedule on Tabit, last changed on 2 December 2024, and the Hebrew page of the town's tourism site say the same; the footer of the same web page gives every day 13:00 to 16:00 and 17:30 to 20:00. Its Google listing, as Wanderlog and Restaurant Guru copy it, gives 12:00 to 23:00 every day. Delivery and takeaway orders are taken from 12:00. Older listings on d.co.il and the tourism site's English page still give the evening hours of the chef restaurant it replaced.
Location
Herods Palace hotel, 6 HaYam Street, Eilat8851025
- Bus: Nearest stop 198 mlines 5, 5א, 6, 6א, 10, 11, 15, 16 and 2 more
- Parking: Accessible parking listedIts accessibility statement places accessible parking in the public car park at the hotel. OpenStreetMap maps car parks, unnamed and with no fee marked, about 160 and 235 metres to the north-west.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-09-29.
Reviews
- Google4.34043 ratings · As quoted by wanderlog.com, read 2026-09-29Read on Google
- Tripadvisor4.4445 ratings · As quoted by wanderlog.com, read 2026-09-29Read on Tripadvisor
- Rest4.016 ratings · Read 2026-09-29Read on Rest
Israel.com copies no review. Read them where they were written, and write yours there.
Questions
About Hamburger at Whale
- Open on ShabbatOn Saturday it is open 13:00 to 22:00.
- 4,504 public ratingsAcross Google, Tripadvisor, Rest, each linked below with the day we read it.
- Its own website and social pagesThe menu and the news come from the business itself, not from a directory.
- Price band ₪₪Wolt marks it $$, Google's listing puts it at the second of four price levels, and Restaurant Guru at 50 to 100 shekels a person; Rest puts it in its third band, 120 to 200. On its ordering menu of July 2026 the burgers cost 57 to 83 shekels, a burger with fries and a drink 77 to 99, and the sides, starters and salads 15 to 70.
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Hamburger at Whale is a restaurant at Herods Palace hotel, 6 HaYam Street in Eilat, in the Southern District. Behind it: chef and co-owner Lior Raphael and pastry chef and co-owner Inbar Shapira.
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 whale-eilat.com on 29 September 2026: Every day 13:00 to 22:00.
The nearest bus stops are מלון הרודס/מלון דן (198 m), מלון רויאל ביץ׳/מלכת שבא (498 m). Its accessibility statement places accessible parking in the public car park at the hotel. OpenStreetMap maps car parks, unnamed and with no fee marked, about 160 and 235 metres to the north-west.
It is not among the 200 businesses on the Eilat religious council's list of supervised businesses, read on the council's site on 29 September 2026, and the national kosher-business site has nothing under לוויתן or לווייתן. Its own pages show no certificate, and its menu has a cheeseburger, a shrimp burger and a burger it calls הלא כשרע, the non-kosher one. mako's list of May 2026 and Walla's of April 2022 mark it not kosher. Its accessibility statement, a document of March 2023 that its website links, lists an accessible entrance, directional signs, accessible toilets with their equipment, and accessible parking in the public car park at the hotel; it has no induction loop. It names a contact for accessibility requests, by phone and at info@whale-eilat.com. Its Google listing, as Restaurant Guru copies it, also marks it wheelchair accessible.
Wolt's page for it names Arava Management & Development Ltd, number 515971760, as the business behind it, and the Companies Registrar lists ערבה ניהול ופיתוח בע"מ under that number: an active private company, incorporated on 30 January 2019 and registered at 6 HaYam Street, Eilat, 8851025, care of the Herods hotel's eastern promenade. The restaurant's own site, terms and accessibility statement name no company. Eilat does not publish its business licence register online, so the licence could not be checked.
הקמנו את לוויתן בשנת 2016 מתוך רצון להביא סוג אחר של מסעדנות לא מתפשרת לאילת. בחרנו בלוויתן כי הוא חיה של מים עמוקים. תקופת הקורונה נתנה לנו כמו לרבים אחרים סטירת לחי שגרמה לנו להבין שבא לנו יותר פשוט, ובחרנו להישאר עם 2 מנות אהובות מהתפריט הקודם שלנו – המבורגר לה ביג מס ושרימפבורגר.The public registers a directory should check and usually does not. A blank is reported as a blank.
- Kosher certificate
- It is not among the 200 businesses on the Eilat religious council's list of supervised businesses, read on the council's site on 29 September 2026, and the national kosher-business site has nothing under לוויתן or לווייתן. Its own pages show no certificate, and its menu has a cheeseburger, a shrimp burger and a burger it calls הלא כשרע, the non-kosher one. mako's list of May 2026 and Walla's of April 2022 mark it not kosher. datiteilat.co.il2026-09-29
- Accessibility statement
- Its accessibility statement, a document of March 2023 that its website links, lists an accessible entrance, directional signs, accessible toilets with their equipment, and accessible parking in the public car park at the hotel; it has no induction loop. It names a contact for accessibility requests, by phone and at info@whale-eilat.com. Its Google listing, as Restaurant Guru copies it, also marks it wheelchair accessible. whale-eilat.com2026-09-29
- Companies Registrar
- Wolt's page for it names Arava Management & Development Ltd, number 515971760, as the business behind it, and the Companies Registrar lists ערבה ניהול ופיתוח בע"מ under that number: an active private company, incorporated on 30 January 2019 and registered at 6 HaYam Street, Eilat, 8851025, care of the Herods hotel's eastern promenade. The restaurant's own site, terms and accessibility statement name no company. data.gov.il2026-09-29
- Municipal business licence
- The Eilat 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, the 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 | המבורגר בלוויתן / Hamburger at Whale | whale-eilat.com | Fact, shown | |
| Address | Herods Palace hotel, 6 HaYam Street | whale-eilat.com | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 29.5479043, 34.9674935 (OpenStreetMap) | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 08-920-9393 | whale-eilat.com | Fact, shown | |
| Website | whale-eilat.com | whale-eilat.com | Fact, shown | |
| Table bookings | tabitisrael.co.il | whale-eilat.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Logo | Its own icon, from whale-eilat.com | whale-eilat.com | Quoted, attributed | |
| Opening hours | Every day 13:00 to 22:00 | whale-eilat.com | Fact, shown | |
| What it is like | Written from whale-eilat.com | whale-eilat.com | Fact, shown | |
| Google rating | 4.3 from 4043 ratings, as quoted by wanderlog.com | google.com | Fact, shown | |
| Google review text | Belongs to the reviewers | google.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Tripadvisor rating | 4.4 from 445 ratings, as quoted by wanderlog.com | tripadvisor.com | Fact, shown | |
| Tripadvisor review text | Belongs to the reviewers | tripadvisor.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Rest rating | 4.0 from 16 ratings | rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Rest review text | Belongs to the reviewers | rest.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Price band | ₪₪ | wolt.com | Fact, shown | |
| Menu | 18 items with prices | tabitisrael.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | None published | datiteilat.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | Accessible entrance and toilets; accessible parking in the hotel's public car park | whale-eilat.com | Fact, shown | |
| Parking | Its accessibility statement places accessible parking in the public car park at the hotel. OpenStreetMap maps car parks, unnamed and with no fee marked, about 160 and 235 metres to the north-west. | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | מלון הרודס/מלון דן 198 m; מלון רויאל ביץ׳/מלכת שבא 498 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Delivery apps | Wolt | wolt.com | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | Wolt's page for it names Arava Management & Development Ltd, number 515971760, as the business behind it, and the Companies Registrar lists ערבה ניהול ופיתוח בע"מ under that number: an active private company, incorporated on 30 January 2019 and registered at 6 HaYam Street, Eilat, 8851025, care of the Herods hotel's eastern promenade. The restaurant's own site, terms and accessibility statement name no company. | data.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Business licence | The Eilat 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, the 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 whale-eilat.com | whale-eilat.com | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 2 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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