Sea Dolphin
דולפין ים
Restaurant · Fish · Meat · ₪₪ · Jerusalem rabbinate and religious council, meat
9 Shimon Ben Shatah Street, Jerusalem
A Jerusalem fish and meat restaurant since 1967, kosher since January 2025, in a preserved stone building on the Ben Shatah pedestrian street
Sea Dolphin, Dolphin Yam in Hebrew, is a fish and meat restaurant on Shimon Ben Shatah, a pedestrian street in the city centre near the Russian Compound, in a preserved Jerusalem stone building a short walk from Mamilla and the Old City. Kol Ha'ir wrote that Dalia and Shraga Rosenzweig founded it in 1967, and its own site calls it the oldest fish and meat restaurant in Jerusalem and a family institution. For 57 years it was not kosher and was known for seafood: ynet's list of 2022 named its seafood pan in white wine, scallops and shrimps in cream sauce, fried crabs and black mussels. On 6 January 2025 it reopened as a kosher meat restaurant, closed on Shabbat and holidays and without its shrimps, calamari and mussels. Its owners, Einat and Eyal Dolev and Yonatan Cohen, told Kol Ha'ir they made the change to open it to diners who keep kosher, and mako wrote in 2026 that it came after the restaurant had asked to cook for soldiers during the war. Chef Oren Yerushalmi leads the kosher menu, which keeps the classic fish and meat dishes beside newer seasonal ones: sea bass, sea bream, trout from the Dan stream, red mullet and Dover sole, a sea bream shawarma, a whole sea bass from the stone oven, ceviche and kebab of sea fish, wild fish for sharing by weight, and an aged entrecôte, lamb kebab and a burger for meat eaters; a house taramasalata is among the starters. mako described white tablecloths and an elegant Jerusalem atmosphere. Beside the kitchen are a cocktail bar and a wine list of mostly Israeli wines, with older vintages from its own cellar. A separate floor takes private events and groups of up to 50, with a large screen, a projector and its own sound system, and has hosted business events, birthdays, bar and bat mitzvahs and small weddings. From Sunday to Thursday its business lunch takes 10% off the whole menu until 17:00, and it takes takeaway orders through its own ordering page. In July 2026 mako and the Foodos kosher community put it on their list of the 50 best kosher restaurants in Israel.
What happens here
- Sunday to Thursday, 12:00 to 17:00
- Business lunch
10% off the whole menu at lunchtime, except on holidays.
As published on seadolphin.co.il, read 2026-10-01.
At a glance
- Shabbat
- Closed. Friday until 16:30
- Kosher
- Jerusalem rabbinate and religious council, meat
- Diet
- Fish, meat
- Prices
- ₪₪ of ₪₪₪
- Seating
- Outdoor seating
- Wheelchair
- Accessible
- Own website
- Active on Instagram
- Facebook page
- Open on Friday
- Takeaway
- Good for families
- Takes credit cards
- Plant milks
Photos
On its Facebook
For illustration: the town and the trade, not Sea Dolphin itself. Its own pictures: 332 posts on Instagram
Opening hours
Checking the clock in Israel
| Sunday to Thursday | 12:00-23:00 |
|---|---|
| Friday | 12:00-16:30 |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sukkot | 26 September to 2 October |
| Simchat Torah | 3 Octoberfrom Friday evening |
Sea Dolphin 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 seadolphin.co.il, read 2026-10-01. All Shabbat times
Sources disagree on these hours
Its website's contact page, last changed on 21 July 2026, gives Sunday to Thursday 12:00 to 23:00, Friday from 12:00 until an hour before Shabbat begins, and Saturday night closed; its home page adds that the kitchen closes at 23:00. Its Friday closing therefore moves with the season: the 16:30 shown here is its Google listing's, as Wanderlog and the copy in its Tabit booking record, dated 15 September 2026, give it, with Saturday closed. Restaurant Guru's older copy of the listing has it open on Saturday from 19:00 to 23:00, and its Tabit booking schedule still offers tables on Saturday evening from 20:30. Wolt takes orders from it from 12:00 to 23:00, until midnight on Thursday, until 17:00 on Friday and from 20:00 to midnight on Saturday: those are ordering hours. Kol Ha'ir reported in January 2025 that since turning kosher it does not open on Shabbat or on holidays.
Location
9 Shimon Ben Shatah Street, Jerusalem9414709
- Train: Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon1.95 km from the door, straight line
- Bus: Nearest stop 267 mlines 517
- Parking: OpenStreetMap maps the paid underground car park of the Museum of Tolerance about 80 metres to the west, and a car park at Kikar HaHatulot about 100 metres to the west.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-01.
Reviews
- Google4.52648 ratings · As quoted by restaurantguru.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Google
- Tripadvisor4.3967 ratings · As quoted by wanderlog.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Tripadvisor
- Rest4.078 ratings · Read 2026-10-01Read on Rest
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Questions
About Sea Dolphin
- Closed on ShabbatOpen 6 days a week; on Friday it closes at 16:30.
- 3,693 public ratingsAcross Google, Tripadvisor, Rest, each linked below with the day we read it.
- 1.95 km from Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon stationBus stops within 484 m: ממילא/אגרון, ככר ספרא/שבטי ישראל, דוד המלך/הס, שבטי ישראל/הלני המלכה, ככר צהל/יפו, הנביאים/הרב קוק, המלך ג׳ורג׳/בן יהודה.
- 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 the copy in its Tabit record gives it, and Rest both put it in the second of four price bands; Rest's page gives 60 to 120 shekels, Restaurant Guru gives 100 to 300 shekels a person, and Wolt puts it at 3 of 4. On its menu of May 2026 the starters cost 18 to 84 shekels and the opening spread 54, the fish dishes 96 to 242, the meat dishes 86 to 198 and the sides 18. On its menus of February 2026 the desserts cost 32 to 56 shekels, the cocktails 48 to 56, wine by the glass 34 to 58 and by the bottle 102 to 1,450.
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Sea Dolphin is a restaurant at 9 Shimon Ben Shatah Street in Jerusalem, in the Jerusalem District. Behind it: co-owner Einat Dolev, co-owner Eyal Dolev, co-owner Yonatan Cohen, and chef Oren Yerushalmi.
It publishes its menu on seadolphin.co.il; 18 of its dishes are listed below with their prices, as read on 1 October 2026.
Hours, as listed on seadolphin.co.il on 1 October 2026: Sunday to Thursday 12:00 to 23:00, Friday 12:00 to 16:30, Saturday closed.
The nearest railway station is Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon, 1.95 km away. The nearest bus stops are ממילא/אגרון (267 m), ככר ספרא/שבטי ישראל (354 m), דוד המלך/הס (397 m). OpenStreetMap maps the paid underground car park of the Museum of Tolerance about 80 metres to the west, and a car park at Kikar HaHatulot about 100 metres to the west.
Kosher and meat, at the regular level, not mehadrin: the Jerusalem religious council's list of kosher businesses, read on 1 October 2026, has "דולפין ים הכשר" at 9 Shimon Ben Shatah with a permanent certificate valid to 31 January 2027. The certificate on its own website, from the Jerusalem rabbinate and religious council and printed on 15 January 2026, is for meat, with cooking by the Rema's custom, runs to the same date and does not cover Passover. mako's list of July 2026 gives meat under the Jerusalem rabbinate, glatt, and Wolt gives kosher under the Jerusalem rabbinate. It became kosher on 6 January 2025, after 57 years without a certificate; lists from before 2025 call it not kosher. The accessibility statement on its website covers the website only. The city's tourism site tags the restaurant accessible, and Restaurant Guru's page for it marks it wheelchair accessible; no source says whether the toilets or the events floor can be reached without steps.
Its Wolt page names the company that runs it, דולפין - ים 2010 בע"מ, company number 514502079, which the Companies Registrar lists in English as SEA - DOLPHIN 2010 LTD. It is registered at the restaurant's own address, 9 Shimon Ben Shatah Street: an active private company, incorporated on 4 October 2010, which has filed its annual report for 2026. Its website names no company. Jerusalem does not publish its business licence register online, so the licence could not be checked.
מסעדת דולפין ים היא מסעדת הדגים ובשרים, הוותיקה ביותר בירושלים. המסעדה נוסדה בשנת 1967, והחל משנת 2025 היא גם כשרה. עם השנים היא הפכה למוסד קולינרי משפחתי. חומרי הגלם הטריים והאיכותיים, הטעמים המדויקים, לצד השירות האדיב, והיחס האישי מזמנים למקום סועדים רבים מהארץ ומחו"ל.The public registers a directory should check and usually does not. A blank is reported as a blank.
- Kosher certificate
- Kosher and meat, at the regular level, not mehadrin: the Jerusalem religious council's list of kosher businesses, read on 1 October 2026, has "דולפין ים הכשר" at 9 Shimon Ben Shatah with a permanent certificate valid to 31 January 2027. The certificate on its own website, from the Jerusalem rabbinate and religious council and printed on 15 January 2026, is for meat, with cooking by the Rema's custom, runs to the same date and does not cover Passover. mako's list of July 2026 gives meat under the Jerusalem rabbinate, glatt, and Wolt gives kosher under the Jerusalem rabbinate. It became kosher on 6 January 2025, after 57 years without a certificate; lists from before 2025 call it not kosher. shirathayam.m-datit.org.il2026-10-01
- Accessibility statement
- The accessibility statement on its website covers the website only. The city's tourism site tags the restaurant accessible, and Restaurant Guru's page for it marks it wheelchair accessible; no source says whether the toilets or the events floor can be reached without steps. seadolphin.co.il2026-10-01
- Companies Registrar
- Its Wolt page names the company that runs it, דולפין - ים 2010 בע"מ, company number 514502079, which the Companies Registrar lists in English as SEA - DOLPHIN 2010 LTD. It is registered at the restaurant's own address, 9 Shimon Ben Shatah Street: an active private company, incorporated on 4 October 2010, which has filed its annual report for 2026. Its website names no company. 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 | דולפין ים / Sea Dolphin | seadolphin.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Address | 9 Shimon Ben Shatah Street | data.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 31.7799782, 35.2210812 (OpenStreetMap) | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 02-623-2272 | seadolphin.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | Events, on WhatsApp 058-623-2277 | seadolphin.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Website | seadolphin.co.il | seadolphin.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Table bookings | tabitisrael.co.il | seadolphin.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Logo | Its own icon, from seadolphin.co.il | seadolphin.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Opening hours | Sunday to Thursday 12:00 to 23:00, Friday 12:00 to 16:30, Saturday closed | seadolphin.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| What happens here | Business lunch | seadolphin.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Google rating | 4.5 from 2648 ratings, as quoted by restaurantguru.com | google.com | Fact, shown | |
| Google review text | Belongs to the reviewers | google.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Tripadvisor rating | 4.3 from 967 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 78 ratings | rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Rest review text | Belongs to the reviewers | rest.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Price band | ₪₪ | seadolphin.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Menu | 18 items with prices | seadolphin.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | Jerusalem rabbinate and religious council, meat | shirathayam.m-datit.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | Wheelchair accessible | seadolphin.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Parking | OpenStreetMap maps the paid underground car park of the Museum of Tolerance about 80 metres to the west, and a car park at Kikar HaHatulot about 100 metres to the west. | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon 1.95 km; ממילא/אגרון 267 m; ממילא/אגרון 279 m; ככר ספרא/שבטי ישראל 354 m; ככר ספרא/שבטי ישראל 365 m; דוד המלך/הס 397 m; שבטי ישראל/הלני המלכה 400 m; ככר צהל/יפו 411 m; הנביאים/הרב קוק 412 m; הנביאים/הרב קוק 469 m; המלך ג׳ורג׳/בן יהודה 484 m; דוד המלך/הס 490 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Delivery apps | Wolt | wolt.com | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | Its Wolt page names the company that runs it, דולפין - ים 2010 בע"מ, company number 514502079, which the Companies Registrar lists in English as SEA - DOLPHIN 2010 LTD. It is registered at the restaurant's own address, 9 Shimon Ben Shatah Street: an active private company, incorporated on 4 October 2010, which has filed its annual report for 2026. Its website names no company. | 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 seadolphin.co.il | seadolphin.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 3 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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