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Ouzeria

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Restaurant · Bar · Mediterranean · ₪₪ · No kosher certificate

44 Matalon Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Checking the clock in Israel3106 ratings on Google

A Mediterranean restaurant in Levinsky Market, open since 2012, with small plates to go with the ouzo, a 12-seat bar and a long list of ouzo and arak

Ouzeria is a Mediterranean restaurant and bar on Matalon Street, in Levinsky Market in the south of Tel Aviv. Chef Avivit Priel-Avichai, who had been the chef of Tapeo from 2002 to 2012, opened it in 2012 with her partner Ofir Lami, inspired, its website says, by Spanish tapas bars and by the ouzerias they visited in Athens, to serve original, joyful food from all the kitchens of the Mediterranean. A few tables stand by large windows that look onto the market, and a wide bar seats 12, with a drinks list that leans on anise: ouzo from Greece, arak from Israel, Bethlehem, Jordan and Lebanon, and French pastis. Priel-Avichai led it for 14 years and left in the summer of 2026; the kitchen is now run by Erez Omid, who Time Out says had worked there for a decade as its operations chef and who, Haaretz writes, was her right hand. Reviewing it in Haaretz on 16 July 2026, Sagi Cohen found that the Greek music of her years, played under a portrait of Vasilis Tsitsanis printed in the room, had given way to Israeli Mediterranean songs, and wrote that Omid's new menu is full of good dishes; his headline says the food stayed great. The menu moves from small plates to go with the ouzo, such as vine-leaf dip, tzatziki, ajo blanco and bruschettas at 28 to 32 shekels, through house classics like fried anchovies, calamari, shrimps with tomatoes dried in-house, chicken souvlaki, moussaka and the fried cauliflower still named after Avivit, to a seasonal list that on 1 October 2026 opened with a Rosh Hashanah ceviche. Time Out has described it as just the market restaurant one imagines, with excellent Mediterranean food, a loose and loud atmosphere and a clever use of Balkan food traditions, a phenomenon of its own for more than a decade. At lunch tables go to whoever comes, and bookings are taken for the evening from 18:00. Next to it, at 25 Zevulun Street, its Next Door space holds private events of up to 40 guests; in 2025 Time Out reported that Priel-Avichai was hosting chefs there who had lost their kitchens, among them colleagues from the north.

25 facts checked 2026-10-01

What happens here

Sunday to Friday, from 12:00
Lunch without a booking

At lunch the tables go to whoever comes; table bookings are for the evening, from 18:00.

As published on ouzeria.co.il, read 2026-10-01.

At a glance

Shabbat
Closed. Friday until 23:00
Kosher
No certificate
Diet
Mediterranean
Prices
₪₪ of ₪₪₪
Wheelchair
Wheelchair access and a menu in Braille; no accessible toilet
  • Own website
  • Active on Instagram
  • Facebook page
  • Open on Friday

Photos

On its Facebook

For illustration: the town and the trade, not Ouzeria itself. Its own pictures: 666 posts on Instagram

A seafood platter with prawns, mussels and fried squid

South African Tourism from South Africa / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Prawns, mussels and fried squid; here fried calamari with aioli and fried anchovy chips sit beside a fettuccine of shrimps, calamari and mussels
Sacks and boxes of dried fruit, nuts and spices outside shops on a street of Levinsky Market, Tel Aviv

ד"ר אבישי טייכר / CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons

Dried fruit, nuts and spices on a street of Levinsky Market; it stands in the market, on Matalon Street, its windows looking onto it

Opening hours

Checking the clock in Israel

Opening hours by day
Sunday to Friday12:00-23:00
SaturdayClosed
Sukkot26 September to 2 October
Simchat Torah3 Octoberfrom Friday evening

Ouzeria 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 ouzeria.co.il, read 2026-10-01. All Shabbat times

Sources disagree on these hours

Its website gives Sunday to Friday from 12:00 to 23:00 and Saturday as its day of rest, closed. Its Google listing, as its Tabit record and Wanderlog copy it, and OpenStreetMap give the same hours. Its d.co.il listing has it closing at 23:59. At lunch, its website says, tables are taken as they come, and table bookings start at 18:00. Its Wolt delivery runs from 12:00 to 22:45, and to 23:00 on Thursday.

Location

Map showing Ouzeria at 44 Matalon Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo

44 Matalon Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo6652712

WazeGoogle Maps
  • Train: Tel Aviv HaHagana1.3 km from the door, straight line
  • Bus: Nearest stop 77 mlines 1, 25, 42, 44, 125, 142, 418
  • Parking: Its website names disabled parking close by at 27 Zevulun Street and 24 HeHalutzim Street.OpenStreetMap maps a paid car park about 225 metres to the south-east, and the underground Aliya Square car park (חניון כיכר עליה) at 22 Chelnov Street, about 245 metres to the south-east: paid, open around the clock, with 260 spaces.

© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-01.

Reviews

  • Google4.53106 ratings · As quoted by wanderlog.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Google
  • Tripadvisor4.4364 ratings · As quoted by wanderlog.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Tripadvisor

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About Ouzeria

  • Restaurant and bar in oneIt trades as both, under one name at one address.
  • Closed on ShabbatOpen 6 days a week; on Friday it closes at 23:00.
  • 3,470 public ratingsAcross Google, Tripadvisor, each linked below with the day we read it.
  • 1.3 km from Tel Aviv HaHagana stationBus stops within 310 m: קאנטרי שוק העלייה/העלייה, שוק לוינסקי/העלייה, הרצל/וולפסון, דרך יפו/נחלת בנימין, צ׳לנוב/מטלון, הרצל/דרך יפו, דרך מנחם בגין/אלנבי.
  • 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, is in the second of four price bands, and its Tabit page marks it ₪₪. On the menu its website carried on 1 October 2026, the small plates cost 28 to 32 shekels, the house classics 22 to 88, the seasonal dishes 56 to 128 and the desserts 30 to 52. On its drinks list for summer 2026 the ouzos and araks start at 20 shekels.

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