Chakra
צ'אקרה
Restaurant · Bar · Mediterranean fusion · ₪₪₪ · No kosher certificate
41 King George Street, Jerusalem
A chef restaurant and bar at the top of Independence Park, open since 2000, with white tablecloths, a round bar and a terrace facing the park
Chakra is a chef restaurant and bar on King George Street in the centre of Jerusalem, at the upper edge of Independence Park. It opened in 2000 on Shlomtzion HaMalka Street, founded, as mako told it in 2008, by chef Ilan Garousi with his partners Eran Peretz and Roger Moore, and in the autumn of 2008 it moved to 41 King George Street, a building that, by David Kroyanker's account as Hebrew Wikipedia cites it, had housed Café Rondo, the first café in west Jerusalem to open on Shabbat. Peretz told Walla in 2025 that he arrived as a cook in 2000 and became a partner a few months later, at 24. When Garousi left in 2014 Peretz took over as chef, and for the past decade he has run the restaurant on his own, with his brothers Nir, Lior and Gal working with him. He calls it "a luxury restaurant at eye level": a white tablecloth for everyone, even someone who comes for a hamburger, and a meal for 150 shekels or for 700. Its menu of fish, seafood and meat, printed with the day's date, runs from sourdough bread, ikra and cauliflower msabaha to the spicy tuna on toast that it calls its best seller, cauliflower and mascarpone agnolotti, whole sea bass from the charcoal oven, a cheeseburger, tournedos Rossini and beef cuts from the Iwo butchery; it serves shrimp and seafood but, Peretz told Walla, no pork. An evening there moves between a terrace facing the park, a round bar where Time Out suggests taking a seat to watch the place run like a well-oiled machine, and the dining room inside. By its own account the music turns upbeat late on Thursday evenings, and it opens on Friday and Saturday evenings too, which Peretz sees as keeping a place for Jerusalem's secular public. In October 2025 the World Culinary Awards named it Israel's best restaurant for 2025, at a ceremony on Sardinia, and in November La Liste put it among the world's 1,000 best restaurants for 2026 with 76 points, the only Jerusalem restaurant among the eight from Israel. Haaretz's Eitan Leshem, returning to it in December 2025 in a column on restaurants that became legends, headlined his review "respectful, tasty, pleasant and rare", and Walla's Yaniv Granot put it second on his list of the ten restaurants most worth going to in September 2025. Its pizzeria, Pizza Chakra, opened about 200 metres away in 2024.
What happens here
- Thursday, late in the evening
- Music for the weekend
By its own account, late on Thursday evenings the calm music turns upbeat to mark the start of the weekend.
- Friday evening
- Friday-night dinner
It opens at 18:00 on Friday, and on Saturday too. Walla's Yaniv Granot wrote in 2025 that it is the automatic answer to where to eat in Jerusalem on a Friday night, with families having their Friday dinner in the dining room.
As published on chakrarest.com, read 2026-10-01.
At a glance
- Shabbat
- Open Saturday 18:00-00:00
- Kosher
- No certificate
- Diet
- Mediterranean fusion
- Prices
- ₪₪₪ of ₪₪₪
- Seating
- Outdoor seating
- Wheelchair
- Wheelchair access and an accessible toilet, on the ground floor
- Own website
- Active on Instagram
- Facebook page
- Open on Friday
- Takes credit cards
- Wi-Fi
Photos
On its Facebook
For illustration: the town and the trade, not Chakra itself. Its own pictures: 1,067 posts on Instagram
Opening hours
Checking the clock in Israel
| Sunday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Monday to Saturday | 18:00-00:00 |
| Sukkot | 26 September to 2 October |
| Simchat Torah | 3 Octoberfrom Friday evening |
Chakra has not published holiday hours. Call before you go. Sukkot: the dates and times
Candle lighting 6:03 PMShabbat ends 6:58 PM
As published on Google, read 2026-10-01. All Shabbat times
Sources disagree on these hours
Its website says it opens from Monday to Saturday at 18:00 and gives no closing time. Its Google listing, as Restaurant Guru and Wanderlog copy it, has it open from 18:00 to midnight on those days and closed on Sunday, and so did its own text in Kol Ha'ir in May 2025. Its booking page on Tabit also says Monday to Saturday from 18:00; an older weekly schedule behind that page, last changed in 2023, opens at 17:30 on Friday and at 12:30 on Saturday. Its listing on d.co.il gives daytime hours that are not the restaurant's.
Location
41 King George Street, Jerusalem9426116
- Train: Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon1.7 km from the door, straight line
- Bus: Nearest stop 63 mlines 7, 19א, 22, 22א, 72, 75, 77, 77א and 12 more
- Parking: Its accessibility statement says it has no disabled parking.OpenStreetMap maps paid car parks about 85 and 100 metres to the east, the second with 20 spaces, and a paid car park about 95 metres to the west.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-01.
Reviews
- Google4.52157 ratings · As quoted by restaurantguru.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Google
- Tripadvisor4.41163 ratings · As quoted by restaurantguru.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Tripadvisor
- Rest3.566 ratings · Read 2026-10-01Read on Rest
Israel.com copies no review. Read them where they were written, and write yours there.
Questions
About Chakra
- Restaurant and bar in oneIt trades as both, under one name at one address.
- Open on ShabbatOn Saturday it is open 18:00 to 00:00.
- 3,386 public ratingsAcross Google, Tripadvisor, Rest, each linked below with the day we read it.
- 1.7 km from Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon stationBus stops within 347 m: המלך ג׳ורג׳/קק״ל, שמואל הנגיד/בצלאל, המלך ג׳ורג׳/בן יהודה, ככר צרפת/אגרון, בצלאל/טרומפלדור.
- Its own website and social pagesThe menu and the news come from the business itself, not from a directory.
- Price band ₪₪₪Restaurant Guru gives 150 to 350 shekels a person, and Rest puts it in its top price band, at 120 to 200 a person; its Google listing, as the copy in its Tabit record gives it, is in the third of four bands. On the menu its website printed for 30 September 2026 the small plates cost 34 to 48 shekels, the other first courses 48 to 136, the pastas and risottos 88 to 174, the main dishes 98 to 284, and the beef cuts from the charcoal oven 82 shekels per 100 grams. Eran Peretz told Walla in 2025 that one can eat there for 150 shekels or for 700.
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Chakra is a restaurant at 41 King George Street in Jerusalem, in the Jerusalem District. Behind it: chef and owner Eran Peretz. It is also a bar.
It publishes its menu on chakrarest.com; 18 of its dishes are listed below with their prices, as read on 1 October 2026.
Hours, as listed on Google on 1 October 2026: Sunday closed, Monday to Saturday 18:00 to 00:00.
The nearest railway station is Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon, 1.7 km away. The nearest bus stops are המלך ג׳ורג׳/קק״ל (63 m), שמואל הנגיד/בצלאל (257 m), המלך ג׳ורג׳/בן יהודה (282 m). Its accessibility statement says it has no disabled parking. OpenStreetMap maps paid car parks about 85 and 100 metres to the east, the second with 20 spaces, and a paid car park about 95 metres to the west.
No kashrut certificate was found. It is not among the 1,448 businesses on the Jerusalem religious council's kashrut list, read on 1 October 2026, either by name or at 41 King George Street. Its own pages show no certificate, it opens on Friday evening and on Saturday, and its menu has shrimp, calamari and a seafood risotto. Eran Peretz told Walla in 2025 that the restaurant is not kosher and serves no pork, and the city's tourism site lists it as not kosher. Its accessibility statement, last updated on 20 November 2023, says the restaurant has wheelchair access and an accessible toilet, is on the ground floor, and has no disabled parking. The city's tourism site and Restaurant Guru also mark it accessible.
Its accessibility statement names א.ר צ׳אקרה בע״מ as the company that runs its website. The Companies Registrar lists א.ר. צאקרה (2001) בע"מ, company number 513067306, registered at the restaurant's own address, 41 King George Street, care of the restaurant: an active private company incorporated on 14 January 2001, which filed its last annual report for 2025. Jerusalem does not publish its business licence register online, so the licence could not be checked.
מסעדת צ'אקרה משלבת חווית אירוח מוקפדת ויחס אישי הנוצר באופן טבעי בין האורחים לצוות המסעדה. תפריט המסעדה משתנה מדי יום תוך התחשבות בזמינות חומרי הגלם והעונה. לצד תפריט אלכוהול ויינות אשר נבחרו בקפידה, צ׳אקרה מייצרת חווית אוכל ואירוח עדכנית ומפנקת.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 1,448 businesses on the Jerusalem religious council's kashrut list, read on 1 October 2026, either by name or at 41 King George Street. Its own pages show no certificate, it opens on Friday evening and on Saturday, and its menu has shrimp, calamari and a seafood risotto. Eran Peretz told Walla in 2025 that the restaurant is not kosher and serves no pork, and the city's tourism site lists it as not kosher. shirathayam.m-datit.org.il2026-10-01
- Accessibility statement
- Its accessibility statement, last updated on 20 November 2023, says the restaurant has wheelchair access and an accessible toilet, is on the ground floor, and has no disabled parking. The city's tourism site and Restaurant Guru also mark it accessible. chakrarest.com2026-10-01
- Companies Registrar
- Its accessibility statement names א.ר צ׳אקרה בע״מ as the company that runs its website. The Companies Registrar lists א.ר. צאקרה (2001) בע"מ, company number 513067306, registered at the restaurant's own address, 41 King George Street, care of the restaurant: an active private company incorporated on 14 January 2001, which filed its last annual report for 2025. data.gov.il2026-10-01
- Municipal business licence
- No published register of licensed businesses was found for Jerusalem: none of the 114 datasets on the city's open-data portal is such a register, and data.gov.il has none for the city. jerusalem.muni.il2026-10-01
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| Field | Value | Source | Read on | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | צ'אקרה / Chakra | chakrarest.com | Fact, shown | |
| Address | 41 King George Street | chakrarest.com | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 31.7782906, 35.2162482 (OpenStreetMap) | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 02-625-2733 | chakrarest.com | Fact, shown | |
| Website | chakrarest.com | chakrarest.com | Fact, shown | |
| Table bookings | tabitisrael.co.il | chakrarest.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Opening hours | Sunday closed, Monday to Saturday 18:00 to 00:00 | google.com | Fact, shown | |
| What happens here | Music for the weekend; Friday-night dinner | chakrarest.com | Fact, shown | |
| Google rating | 4.5 from 2157 ratings, as quoted by restaurantguru.com | google.com | Fact, shown | |
| Google review text | Belongs to the reviewers | google.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Tripadvisor rating | 4.4 from 1163 ratings, as quoted by restaurantguru.com | tripadvisor.com | Fact, shown | |
| Tripadvisor review text | Belongs to the reviewers | tripadvisor.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Rest rating | 3.5 from 66 ratings | rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Rest review text | Belongs to the reviewers | rest.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Price band | ₪₪₪ | restaurantguru.com | Fact, shown | |
| Menu | 18 items with prices | chakrarest.com | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | None published | shirathayam.m-datit.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | Wheelchair access and an accessible toilet, on the ground floor | chakrarest.com | Fact, shown | |
| Parking | Its accessibility statement says it has no disabled parking. OpenStreetMap maps paid car parks about 85 and 100 metres to the east, the second with 20 spaces, and a paid car park about 95 metres to the west. | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon 1.7 km; המלך ג׳ורג׳/קק״ל 63 m; המלך ג׳ורג׳/קק״ל 81 m; שמואל הנגיד/בצלאל 257 m; המלך ג׳ורג׳/בן יהודה 282 m; ככר צרפת/אגרון 341 m; בצלאל/טרומפלדור 347 m; ככר צרפת/אגרון 358 m; בצלאל/טרומפלדור 385 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Delivery apps | Not on Wolt or 10bis | Our own check | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | Its accessibility statement names א.ר צ׳אקרה בע״מ as the company that runs its website. The Companies Registrar lists א.ר. צאקרה (2001) בע"מ, company number 513067306, registered at the restaurant's own address, 41 King George Street, care of the restaurant: an active private company incorporated on 14 January 2001, which filed its last annual report for 2025. | data.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Business licence | No published register of licensed businesses was found for Jerusalem: none of the 114 datasets on the city's open-data portal is such a register, and data.gov.il has none for the city. | jerusalem.muni.il | Fact, shown | |
| The owners' own words | Quoted from chakrarest.com | chakrarest.com | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 3 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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