Chacoli
צ'אקולי
Restaurant · Spanish · Fish · Tapas · ₪₪₪ · No kosher certificate
3 Herbert Samuel Street, at the former Dolphinarium site, Tel Aviv-Yafo
A Spanish fish and seafood restaurant on the Tel Aviv seafront, in the water sports centre built where the Dolphinarium stood, with tapas, oysters and a deck facing the sea
Chacoli is a Spanish fish and seafood restaurant on the Tel Aviv seafront, in a glass and iron building that belongs to the city's community water sports centre, which opened in January 2024 where the Dolphinarium had stood. It opened to friends and family on 17 November 2024 and officially on 24 November, after an investment of about 6 million shekels, as Haaretz and mako reported. Chef Guy Gamzu opened it with his partners, the restaurateur Itzik Hangal (Pastel, Helena, Dubnov 8) and Mosh Budnik (Social Club), and chef Yarden Shai, who had worked with Eyal Shani and at Cafe Europa, wrote the menu; she still leads the kitchen. It is named after txakoli, the Basque white wine Hangal imports for it, which the wine list pours by the glass. mako counted 220 seats at the opening, most of them outside on a deck facing the sea, and ynet, which called it the talked-about restaurant of the year in January 2025, described a modern Scandinavian room with a lot of wood and a huge open-air terrace. At the entrance an ice vitrine of fish and seafood leads into a round bar where the cooks and the bartenders work side by side, beside a wall of glass-fronted fridges where whole fish hang to age. The menu runs from montaditos, the small open sandwiches of Spain, and oysters at 12 shekels each, to fried fish and calamari, shrimp and mussels in earthenware dishes, fresh pasta from the pan, and dry-aged fish, octopus and whole fish from the charcoal grill, with sherries, vermouths, cocktails and a long wine list. Since November 2025 its lunch, from Sunday to Thursday, has centred on an Andalusian tray of changing small plates at 39 shekels a guest, and on 1 October 2026 Haaretz opened its list of 16 recommended business lunches with it. It is open every day, straight through from noon on Friday and Saturday, and Walla's Yaniv Granot wrote in January 2026 that it is bustling in the evening. Granot put it second on his list of the ten restaurants most worth going to in July 2025 and again in January 2026, writing that a year after opening it keeps all its promises; Time Out included it among the best restaurants in south Tel Aviv in 2025 and among its recommended casual restaurants in June 2026, and it took first place for fish in Secret Tel Aviv's Food & Drinks Awards 2026.
What happens here
- Sunday to Thursday, 12:00 to 16:00
- The Andalusian tray at lunch
A changing tray of small plates from southern Spain, served in the middle of the table at 39 shekels a guest, with plates such as oxtail pastilla, white beans cacio e pepe with manchego and tempura anchovies; the full menu, a glass of Spanish wine or a cocktail can follow. It is not served on holiday eves or holidays.
As published on ontopo.com, read 2026-10-01.
At a glance
- Shabbat
- Open Saturday 12:00-00:00
- Kosher
- No certificate
- Diet
- Spanish, fish, tapas
- Prices
- ₪₪₪ of ₪₪₪
- Seating
- Outdoor seating
- Wheelchair
- No statement
- Active on Instagram
- Open on Friday
Photos
For illustration: the town and the trade, not Chacoli itself. Its own pictures: 85 posts on Instagram
Opening hours
Checking the clock in Israel
| Sunday to Thursday | 12:00-15:30, 18:00-00:00 |
|---|---|
| Friday and Saturday | 12:00-00:00 |
| Sukkot | 26 September to 2 October |
| Simchat Torah | 3 Octoberfrom Friday evening |
Chacoli has not published holiday hours. Call before you go. Sukkot: the dates and times
Candle lighting 6:05 PMShabbat ends 7:00 PM
As published on Ontopo, read 2026-10-01. All Shabbat times
Sources disagree on these hours
These are the hours its booking page on Ontopo gives for the coming week: lunch from 12:00 to 15:30 and dinner from 18:00 on Sunday to Thursday, and straight through from 12:00 on Friday and Saturday, with the kitchen closing at 23:30 and the restaurant at midnight. The same page says the Andalusian lunch tray is served from Sunday to Thursday, 12:00 to 16:00, and not on holiday eves or holidays; Haaretz in October 2026 and Channel 13 in February 2026 gave the lunch deal as Monday to Thursday, 12:00 to 16:00. Its Google listing, as Wanderlog copies it, has 12:00 to 16:00 and 18:00 to 23:00 from Sunday to Thursday and 12:00 to 23:00 on Friday and Saturday. When it opened in November 2024 it served evenings only, from 17:00 to midnight every day, as mako reported. d.co.il gives daytime hours that are not the restaurant's.
Location
3 Herbert Samuel Street, at the former Dolphinarium site, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Train: Tel Aviv HaHagana2.6 km from the door, straight line
- Bus: Nearest stop 224 mlines 14, 54
- Parking: Its booking page names the Charles Clore car park at 9 Kaufman Street as the nearest and puts it 400 metres away.OpenStreetMap maps paid car parks about 175 metres to the north-east, about 230 and 295 metres to the south-east (Gan HaKovshim 2 and 1, with 156 and 172 spaces) and about 310 metres to the south (the Dolphinarium car park).
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-01.
Reviews
- Google4.0842 ratings · As quoted by wanderlog.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Google
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Questions
About Chacoli
- Open on ShabbatOn Saturday it is open 12:00 to 00:00.
- 2.6 km from Tel Aviv HaHagana stationBus stops within 420 m: גן צ׳רלס קלור/פרופ׳ קויפמן, יצחק אלחנן/הכובשים, יוסף לוי/הכובשים, הכובשים/דניאל, מסוף כרמלית/הורדה, מסוף כרמלית, חוף בננה ביץ׳, מסוף כרמלית/הכרמל, מרכז הטקסטיל/פרופ׳ קויפמן, המרד/פינס, הירקון/עזרא הסופר, יצחק אלחנן/הכרמל.
- Price band ₪₪₪Its booking page on Ontopo marks its price level as $$$. On the menu that page shows, an oyster costs 12 shekels, the montaditos 18 to 28, the vegetable dishes 48 to 69, the fried dishes 48 to 76, the earthenware, pan and plancha dishes 62 to 108 and the dishes from the charcoal grill 56 to 178, with a New York steak at 68 shekels per 100 grams and whole fish priced by weight; the desserts cost 47 to 54. The Andalusian lunch tray is 39 shekels a guest, the cocktails cost 48 to 65 shekels and a bottle of wine 194 to 4,340.
Chacoli is a restaurant at 3 Herbert Samuel Street, at the former Dolphinarium site in Tel Aviv-Yafo, in the Tel Aviv District. Behind it: chef Yarden Shai, chef and partner Guy Gamzu, restaurateur and partner Itzik Hangal, and partner Mosh Budnik.
It publishes its menu on Ontopo; 18 of its dishes are listed below with their prices, as read on 1 October 2026.
Hours, as listed on Ontopo on 1 October 2026: Sunday to Thursday 12:00 to 15:30 and 18:00 to 00:00, Friday and Saturday 12:00 to 00:00.
The nearest railway station is Tel Aviv HaHagana, 2.6 km away. The nearest bus stops are גן צ׳רלס קלור/פרופ׳ קויפמן (224 m), יצחק אלחנן/הכובשים (268 m), יוסף לוי/הכובשים (275 m). Its booking page names the Charles Clore car park at 9 Kaufman Street as the nearest and puts it 400 metres away. OpenStreetMap maps paid car parks about 175 metres to the north-east, about 230 and 295 metres to the south-east (Gan HaKovshim 2 and 1, with 156 and 172 spaces) and about 310 metres to the south (the Dolphinarium car park).
No kashrut certificate was found. It is not among the 1,081 businesses on the Tel Aviv-Yafo religious council's list of kosher businesses, read on 1 October 2026, either by name or at 3 Herbert Samuel Street. Its booking page shows no certificate, it opens on Friday evening and on Saturday, and its menu has shrimp, oysters, mussels, razor clams and octopus. mako called it not kosher when it opened in November 2024. We found no published accessibility statement, so call ahead if step-free access matters to you.
The name does not appear in the Companies Registrar, which points to a sole proprietorship or partnership rather than a company. It appears on the municipal business licence register.
מסעדת דגים ספרדית בלוקיישן אייקוני מול חוף הים בתל אביב, מביאה את העושר של המטבח הספרדי בצלחות טאפאס ומנות חלוקה שזורמות לשולחן לצד יינות, קוקטיילי שפריץ ומרגריטות. תפריט הצהרים החדש שלנו מושק ובלב ליבו של התפריט החדש הוא "המגש האנדלוסי" חוויית פתיחת שולחן עשירה, צבעונית ומתחלפת, המוגשת במרכז השולחן במחיר נגיש במיוחד של 39 ש"ח בלבד לאורח, מבלי להתפשר על איכות, חומרי גלם או דיוק קולינרי.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 1,081 businesses on the Tel Aviv-Yafo religious council's list of kosher businesses, read on 1 October 2026, either by name or at 3 Herbert Samuel Street. Its booking page shows no certificate, it opens on Friday evening and on Saturday, and its menu has shrimp, oysters, mussels, razor clams and octopus. mako called it not kosher when it opened in November 2024. rabanut.co.il2026-10-01
- Accessibility statement
- It has no website of its own, and so no accessibility statement of its own, and none of the sources read says whether the entrance is step-free or the toilets accessible. ontopo.com2026-10-01
- Companies Registrar
- No page of its own names the company that runs it, and the Companies Registrar lists no company under צ'אקולי, צאקולי, צ'קולי or Chacoli. data.gov.il2026-10-01
- Municipal business licence
- Tel Aviv-Yafo's register of licensed businesses, which the municipality publishes as open data and reloads nightly, lists a café and restaurant use at 3 Herbert Samuel Street that requires a business licence, over 344 square metres, with a start date of 1 May 2024; it was read on 1 October 2026. It is the only restaurant use at the address, where the register also lists the municipality's own departments. gisn.tel-aviv.gov.il2026-10-01
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| Field | Value | Source | Read on | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | צ'אקולי / Chacoli | ontopo.com | Fact, shown | |
| Address | 3 Herbert Samuel Street, at the former Dolphinarium site | ontopo.com | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 32.0676832, 34.7621156 (OpenStreetMap) | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 03-656-4740 | ontopo.com | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | WhatsApp 053-227-4149 | ontopo.com | Fact, shown | |
| Table bookings | ontopo.com | google.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Opening hours | Sunday to Thursday 12:00 to 15:30 and 18:00 to 00:00, Friday and Saturday 12:00 to 00:00 | ontopo.com | Fact, shown | |
| What happens here | The Andalusian tray at lunch | ontopo.com | Fact, shown | |
| Google rating | 4.0 from 842 ratings, as quoted by wanderlog.com | google.com | Fact, shown | |
| Google review text | Belongs to the reviewers | google.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Price band | ₪₪₪ | ontopo.com | Fact, shown | |
| Menu | 18 items with prices | ontopo.com | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | None published | rabanut.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | No published statement found | ontopo.com | Fact, shown | |
| Parking | Its booking page names the Charles Clore car park at 9 Kaufman Street as the nearest and puts it 400 metres away. OpenStreetMap maps paid car parks about 175 metres to the north-east, about 230 and 295 metres to the south-east (Gan HaKovshim 2 and 1, with 156 and 172 spaces) and about 310 metres to the south (the Dolphinarium car park). | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | Tel Aviv HaHagana 2.6 km; גן צ׳רלס קלור/פרופ׳ קויפמן 224 m; יצחק אלחנן/הכובשים 268 m; יוסף לוי/הכובשים 275 m; הכובשים/דניאל 335 m; מסוף כרמלית/הורדה 352 m; מסוף כרמלית 358 m; חוף בננה ביץ׳ 362 m; מסוף כרמלית 370 m; מסוף כרמלית/הכרמל 377 m; מרכז הטקסטיל/פרופ׳ קויפמן 378 m; המרד/פינס 382 m; הירקון/עזרא הסופר 384 m; המרד/פינס 402 m; מסוף כרמלית/הכרמל 403 m; יצחק אלחנן/הכרמל 420 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Delivery apps | Not on Wolt or 10bis | Our own check | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | No page of its own names the company that runs it, and the Companies Registrar lists no company under צ'אקולי, צאקולי, צ'קולי or Chacoli. | data.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Business licence | Tel Aviv-Yafo's register of licensed businesses, which the municipality publishes as open data and reloads nightly, lists a café and restaurant use at 3 Herbert Samuel Street that requires a business licence, over 344 square metres, with a start date of 1 May 2024; it was read on 1 October 2026. It is the only restaurant use at the address, where the register also lists the municipality's own departments. | gisn.tel-aviv.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| The owners' own words | Quoted from ontopo.com | ontopo.com | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 3 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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