Lux
לוקס
Restaurant · Bar · Local · Mediterranean · Modern Arab · ₪₪₪ · No kosher certificate
Chef Alaa Musa's restaurant of fish, seafood and modern Arab cooking, around a long bar and an open kitchen on HaNamal Street by Haifa's port
Lux is chef Alaa Musa's restaurant on HaNamal Street in Haifa's lower city, by the port, which he opened with his partner Ahmad Assadi in March 2018: Walla reported on 5 March 2018 that it would open the next day. By the restaurant's own account, Musa, who grew up in Acre, started at 15 at Uri Buri there, where he met Assadi, studied cooking at Dan Gourmet in Haifa, was made sous-chef at Carmela BaNahala in Tel Aviv at 20, worked for four years in Michelin-starred kitchens in Sweden and opened Al-Marsa in Acre in 2012. He told ynet in 2022 that he won the building in a municipal tender while the street was still neglected, and ynet reported that he had since left Al-Marsa. The restaurant calls its food a rich local kitchen of seasonal ingredients from the sea and the field. Its menu, not divided into starters and mains, runs from oysters, a ceviche on shanklish labneh and a sea-fish tabbouleh with tahini from Nablus to veal from the charcoal grill, and the Balagan from Akka market, fish on freekeh risotto, has been on it since the opening. The room is built around a long bar facing the open kitchen, where diners watch the cooks, with more tables outside on HaNamal Street, and ynet wrote in 2024 of its lively music in the evening; a Haifa food blog wrote in 2022 that the lux kerosene lamps of its design gave it its name. It is open every day from noon to 23:00, with a set lunch from Sunday to Thursday and, in its own words, family meals at Saturday lunchtime. mako placed it 24th among Israel's 30 best restaurants in September 2022, the same month the local paper Kolbo and Radio Haifa named Musa Haifa's chef of the year, and Time Out Israel's 2025 guide to Haifa lists it with Crudo. Musa and Assadi also run Crudo, an Italian-Mediterranean food bar next door, and Musa opened Salt, a fish street-food place on Derech HaAtzmaut. Haifa Center HaShmona station is about 700 metres away, and the Carmelit's Downtown station about 200 metres.
What happens here
- Sunday to Thursday, 12:00 to 17:00
- Set lunch
A first course and a main for 132 or 142 shekels, depending on the main: first courses from focaccia, a leaf salad, fattoush from the Akko market or grilled aubergine to the ceviche, the tabbouleh or red-tuna carpaccio, at 8 shekels more; mains from crispy calamari, Mediterranean shrimps or a sea-fish kebab to the Balagan from Akka market, a veal fillet skewer or a whole sea bass, grilled or fried.
- Saturday lunchtime
- Family meals
In its own words, Lux changes from the lunch break in the lower city through the nights of HaNamal Street to the family meals of Saturday lunchtime, with its menu served at every hour of the day.
Tables are booked through Ontopo, which its website links, or by phone and WhatsApp.
As published on luxhaifa.co.il, read 2026-09-30.
At a glance
- Shabbat
- Open Saturday 12:00-23:00
- Kosher
- No certificate
- Diet
- Local, mediterranean, modern arab
- Prices
- ₪₪₪ of ₪₪₪
- Seating
- Outdoor seating
- Wheelchair
- Accessible
- Own website
- Active on Instagram
- Facebook page
- Open on Friday
- Good for families
Photos
On its Facebook
For illustration: the town and the trade, not Lux itself. Its own pictures: 654 posts on Instagram
Opening hours
Checking the clock in Israel
| Every day | 12:00-23:00 |
|---|---|
| Sukkot | 26 September to 2 October |
| Simchat Torah | 3 Octoberfrom Friday evening |
Lux has not published holiday hours. Call before you go. Sukkot: the dates and times
Candle lighting 6:04 PMShabbat ends 6:59 PM
As published on luxhaifa.co.il, read 2026-09-30. All Shabbat times
Sources disagree on these hours
Its website gives 12:00 to 23:00 every day from Sunday to Saturday. Its booking page on Ontopo gives the same hours and adds that it stays open until the last guest, and its Google listing, as Wanderlog and Restaurant Guru copy it, gives the same. No source gives a break between lunch and dinner; the set lunch is served from Sunday to Thursday, 12:00 to 17:00. The listings on d.co.il and 2eat still give 17:00 to midnight from Sunday to Thursday and 12:30 to midnight on Friday and Saturday.
Location
13 HaNamal Street, Haifa3303113
- Train: Haifa Center HaShmona0.7 km from the door, straight line
- Bus: Nearest stop 75 mlines 17, 17א, 74, 193, 200, 215, 217, 261 and 6 more
- Parking: OpenStreetMap maps a paid surface car park about 80 metres to the south-west and the paid municipal car park about 130 metres to the north-west.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-09-30.
Reviews
- Google4.64185 ratings · As quoted by restaurantguru.com, read 2026-09-30Read on Google
- Tripadvisor4.5271 ratings · As quoted by restaurantguru.com, read 2026-09-30Read on Tripadvisor
- Rest4.038 ratings · Read 2026-09-30Read on Rest
Israel.com copies no review. Read them where they were written, and write yours there.
Questions
About Lux
- Restaurant and bar in oneIt trades as both, under one name at one address.
- Open on ShabbatOn Saturday it is open 12:00 to 23:00.
- 4,494 public ratingsAcross Google, Tripadvisor, Rest, each linked below with the day we read it.
- 0.7 km from Haifa Center HaShmona stationBus stops within 290 m: קריית הממשלה/העצמאות, כרמלית, קרית הממשלה, קרית הממשלה/פל ים, שיבת ציון/רובין.
- Its own website and social pagesThe menu and the news come from the business itself, not from a directory.
- Price band ₪₪₪Its Google listing, as Wanderlog copies it, marks it expensive, 3 of 4, and Restaurant Guru gives about 150 shekels a person. On the Hebrew menu of its website, last changed in March 2026, the dishes cost 26 to 168 shekels and an oyster 42; the set lunch, from Sunday to Thursday, costs 132 or 142 shekels for two courses. Wine costs 46 to 56 shekels a glass, bottles start at 184 and a half-litre of rosé costs 142; the cocktails cost 52 to 56 shekels.
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Lux is a restaurant at 13 HaNamal Street in Haifa, in the Haifa District. Behind it: chef and partner Alaa Musa and partner Ahmad Assadi. It is also a bar.
It publishes its menu on luxhaifa.co.il; 18 of its dishes are listed below with their prices, as read on 30 September 2026.
Hours, as listed on luxhaifa.co.il on 30 September 2026: Every day 12:00 to 23:00.
The nearest railway station is Haifa Center HaShmona, 0.7 km away. The nearest bus stops are קריית הממשלה/העצמאות (75 m), כרמלית (146 m), קרית הממשלה (211 m). OpenStreetMap maps a paid surface car park about 80 metres to the south-west and the paid municipal car park about 130 metres to the north-west.
No kashrut certificate was found. It is not among the 509 businesses on the Haifa religious council's list of kosher businesses, read on 29 September 2026, either by name or at 13 HaNamal Street. Its own pages show no certificate, it is open on Friday evening and on Saturday, and its menu has shrimps, calamari, oysters and crab. mako (2018, 2022 and 2024) and ynet (2024) call it not kosher. It is listed as wheelchair accessible on restaurantguru.com.
No page of the restaurant names the company that runs it. The Companies Registrar lists הנמל 13 חיפה בע"מ (Hanamal 13 Haifa Ltd), company number 515758720, named after the restaurant's address: an active private company registered on 19 December 2017, less than three months before the restaurant opened, in the care of Alaa Musa, its chef and partner. Haifa does not publish its business licence register online, so the licence could not be checked.
מהפסקת הצהריים בעיר התחתית, דרך הלילות הסוערים של רחוב הנמל ועד הארוחות המשפחתיות של שבת בצהריים- לוקס משתנה מיום ללילה במהירות ומאפשרת ליהנות מהתפריט המיוחד שלה בכל שעות היום. בלוקס מטבח מקומי עשיר הבנוי על רכיבים עונתיים, טריים, ים תיכוניים, מהים ומהשדה.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 509 businesses on the Haifa religious council's list of kosher businesses, read on 29 September 2026, either by name or at 13 HaNamal Street. Its own pages show no certificate, it is open on Friday evening and on Saturday, and its menu has shrimps, calamari, oysters and crab. mako (2018, 2022 and 2024) and ynet (2024) call it not kosher. shirathayam.m-datit.org.il2026-09-29
- Accessibility statement
- Its website carries no accessibility statement. Its Google listing, as Restaurant Guru copies it, marks it wheelchair accessible; no source says whether the toilet is accessible. Its booking page on Ontopo says there is a protected space near the restaurant, in line with Home Front Command guidelines. restaurantguru.com2026-09-30
- Companies Registrar
- No page of the restaurant names the company that runs it. The Companies Registrar lists הנמל 13 חיפה בע"מ (Hanamal 13 Haifa Ltd), company number 515758720, named after the restaurant's address: an active private company registered on 19 December 2017, less than three months before the restaurant opened, in the care of Alaa Musa, its chef and partner. data.gov.il2026-09-30
- Municipal business licence
- Haifa publishes no register of licensed businesses: the municipality's business-licensing pages have processes and forms only, its list of registered databases names a licensing database that is not published, the only businesses dataset on its open-data portal covers the Sammy Ofer stadium complex, and data.gov.il has no register for the city. haifa.muni.il2026-09-29
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| Field | Value | Source | Read on | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | לוקס / Lux | luxhaifa.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Address | 13 HaNamal Street | wanderlog.com | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 32.8177504, 35.0018235 (OpenStreetMap) | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 077-206-0970 | luxhaifa.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | WhatsApp 052-642-9046 | luxhaifa.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Website | luxhaifa.co.il | luxhaifa.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Table bookings | ontopo.com | luxhaifa.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Logo | Its own icon, from luxhaifa.co.il | luxhaifa.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Opening hours | Every day 12:00 to 23:00 | luxhaifa.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| What happens here | Set lunch; Family meals | luxhaifa.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Google rating | 4.6 from 4185 ratings, as quoted by restaurantguru.com | google.com | Fact, shown | |
| Google review text | Belongs to the reviewers | google.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Tripadvisor rating | 4.5 from 271 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 38 ratings | rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Rest review text | Belongs to the reviewers | rest.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Price band | ₪₪₪ | luxhaifa.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Menu | 18 items with prices | luxhaifa.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | None published | shirathayam.m-datit.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | Wheelchair accessible | restaurantguru.com | Fact, shown | |
| Parking | OpenStreetMap maps a paid surface car park about 80 metres to the south-west and the paid municipal car park about 130 metres to the north-west. | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | Haifa Center HaShmona 0.7 km; קריית הממשלה/העצמאות 75 m; כרמלית 146 m; קריית הממשלה/העצמאות 210 m; קרית הממשלה 211 m; קרית הממשלה/פל ים 213 m; שיבת ציון/רובין 290 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Delivery apps | Not on Wolt or 10bis | Our own check | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | No page of the restaurant names the company that runs it. The Companies Registrar lists הנמל 13 חיפה בע"מ (Hanamal 13 Haifa Ltd), company number 515758720, named after the restaurant's address: an active private company registered on 19 December 2017, less than three months before the restaurant opened, in the care of Alaa Musa, its chef and partner. | data.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Business licence | Haifa publishes no register of licensed businesses: the municipality's business-licensing pages have processes and forms only, its list of registered databases names a licensing database that is not published, the only businesses dataset on its open-data portal covers the Sammy Ofer stadium complex, and data.gov.il has no register for the city. | haifa.muni.il | Fact, shown | |
| The owners' own words | Quoted from luxhaifa.co.il | luxhaifa.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 3 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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