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Pastel

פאסטל

Restaurant · Fish and seafood · ₪₪₪ · No kosher certificate

27 Shaul HaMelech Boulevard, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo

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A chef restaurant in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, open since 2013, looking out over the sculpture garden, with a terrace, a bar and a private room called Grace

Pastel is a chef restaurant inside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on Shaul HaMelech Boulevard, beside the Israeli Opera and the Cameri Theatre, and the museum describes it as looking out over its sculpture garden. By its own account it opened in 2013 in a room designed by the architects Alon Baranovich and Irena Kronenberg, in 2014 it took first place as the "most designed restaurant" in the Space Design Award Idea-Top competition, and the veteran restaurateur Itzik Hangal steers it; mako named him as its owner in 2025. Its kitchen has had several chefs: clippings on its own site from 2021 name Kobi Bachar, mako wrote in August 2022 that Gal Ben Moshe, whose restaurant in Berlin held a Michelin star, had recently arrived, and its website and booking page now say the kitchen is led by chef Teddy Kagan. It says its menu is built on fresh ingredients and changes with the seasons, and that it takes pride in its fish and seafood. The evening menu on its website runs from bread with butter, balsamic and olives, lamb pelmeni and shrimp croquettes to carrot soup, scallops, lion's mane mushroom and local fish crudo, then an octopus skewer, veal sweetbreads, calamari with lamb 'nduja and a blue crab rotolo, and main courses from pierogi and a burger to seafood linguine, stone bass with XO shrimp, goose leg confit and entrecôte. Guests sit in the main room, on an open terrace or at an intimate bar, as the museum puts it, and the restaurant hosts events of up to 120 guests in the main room, or 160 with the terrace. Beside it is Grace: mako described it in March 2025 as a small restaurant of 18 seats offering Ben Moshe's fixed tasting menu of ten changing courses for almost 700 shekels a person, and the restaurant's site now offers it as a private room for up to 20 guests, with a menu made for each event. La Liste gave Pastel 77 points in its 2026 ranking of the world's 1,000 best restaurants, one of eight from Israel, as ynet reported in November 2025. Walla's Yaniv Granot put "Pastel and Grace" sixth on his list of the ten restaurants most worth going to in January 2026, naming Hangal, Ben Moshe and Kagan together, and Time Out's June 2026 list of the 26 fine-dining restaurants it recommends in Tel Aviv includes it, crediting Ben Moshe as its chef and calling Grace, in the private room, its younger sister.

26 facts checked 2026-10-01

What happens here

Monday to Thursday, 12:00 to 15:30
Business lunch

A first course, a main course and a bread basket for 145 shekels, with a supplement of 10 to 50 shekels on some dishes, such as the beef tartare (20) and the entrecôte (50).

Evenings it announces
Tasting evenings at Grace

Grace's booking page on Ontopo sells places for evenings of a ten-course tasting menu, from kubaneh with cream and olive oil to a beef Wellington and petits fours. The last dates it listed were Monday 22 to Wednesday 24 June, and on 1 October 2026 it said the event was over.

As published on pastel-tlv.com, read 2026-10-01.

At a glance

Shabbat
Open Saturday 12:00-23:00
Kosher
No certificate
Diet
Fish and seafood
Prices
₪₪₪ of ₪₪₪
Seating
Outdoor seating
Wheelchair
A step-free way in by lift from the Golda car park, and full access to the restaurant by its own account
  • Own website
  • Active on Instagram
  • Facebook page
  • Open on Friday

Photos

On its Facebook

For illustration: the town and the trade, not Pastel itself. Its own pictures: 2,196 posts on Instagram

Thin slices of raw white fish dressed with olive oil

BanzJapan / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Thin slices of raw fish; here the local fish crudo comes with citrus kosho, smoked kombu oil and purple shiso
Spaghetti with garlic, olive oil and parsley

Schellenberg / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

A plate of pasta; here the seafood linguine comes in white wine, cream and saffron, and a blue crab rotolo is handmade
The angular white Herta and Paul Amir Building of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Yair Haklai / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art on Shaul HaMelech Boulevard; it is inside the museum, looking out over its sculpture garden

Opening hours

Checking the clock in Israel

Opening hours by day
SundayClosed
Monday to Thursday12:00-23:00
Friday12:00-15:30, 18:00-23:00
Saturday12:00-23:00
Sukkot26 September to 2 October
Simchat Torah3 Octoberfrom Friday evening

Pastel 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 pastel-tlv.com, read 2026-10-01. All Shabbat times

Sources disagree on these hours

Its website gives these hours on every page: closed on Sunday, 12:00 to 23:00 from Monday to Thursday and on Saturday, and on Friday 12:00 to 15:30 and 18:00 to 23:00; the business lunch is served from Monday to Thursday, 12:00 to 15:30. Its booking page on Ontopo has the same Friday, but from Monday to Thursday and on Saturday it runs from 12:00 to midnight "and until the last guest". Its Google listing, as Wanderlog copies it, has 12:00 to 22:30 from Monday to Saturday, Friday included, and closed on Sunday. d.co.il gives daytime hours that are not the restaurant's. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art around it is also closed on Sunday, and on other days opens at 10:00 and closes at 14:00 on Friday, 21:00 on Tuesday and Thursday and 18:00 on the other days; the restaurant keeps its own, later hours, and the way up from the Golda car park leads straight to its plaza. Grace, its private room, has no set hours: it is booked for events, and holds tasting evenings on dates it announces.

Location

Map showing Pastel at 27 Shaul HaMelech Boulevard, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo

27 Shaul HaMelech Boulevard, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo

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  • Train: Tel Aviv HaShalom0.8 km from the door, straight line
  • Bus: Nearest stop 175 mlines 9, 14, 28, 37, 59, 69, 72, 82 and 9 more
  • Parking: Its website recommends the Golda car park (Ahuzat HaHof) at 7 Berkovitch Street, on level -1, area F, from where a way leads straight up to the restaurant's plaza, and says the restaurant has no parking arrangement of its own.OpenStreetMap maps the Golda car park, underground and paid, about 85 metres away.

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

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About Pastel

  • Open on ShabbatOn Saturday it is open 12:00 to 23:00.
  • 4,721 public ratingsAcross Google, Tripadvisor, Rest, each linked below with the day we read it.
  • 0.8 km from Tel Aviv HaShalom stationBus stops within 349 m: בית המשפט/שד׳ שאול המלך, האופרה/שד׳ שאול המלך, בית המשפט/ויצמן, ביה״ח איכילוב/שד׳ דוד המלך, לונדון מיניסטור/שד׳ שאול המלך.
  • Its own website and social pagesThe menu and the news come from the business itself, not from a directory.
  • Price band ₪₪₪Rest puts it in the third of four price bands, at 120 to 200 shekels a person, and its Ontopo page in the third of four; Time Out's fine-dining list of June 2026 puts it in its "very expensive" tier, the middle of three. On the menus its website printed, read on 1 October 2026, the evening's small bites cost 24 to 76 shekels (198 for the full set), the first courses 68 to 108, the middle courses 82 to 148, the main courses 108 to 220 and the desserts 66 to 72; the business lunch costs 145 shekels and the Pastel Sharing menu 425 a diner.

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