Taizu
טאיזו
Restaurant · AsiaTerranean · Southeast Asian street food · ₪₪₪ · No kosher certificate
23 Derech Menachem Begin, Levinstein Tower, Tel Aviv-Yafo
Chef Yuval Ben Neriah's Asian restaurant in Levinstein Tower, open since 2013, where shared plates of Southeast Asian street food are grouped by five elements, from water to metal
Taizu is chef Yuval Ben Neriah's Asian restaurant on Derech Menachem Begin, in Levinstein Tower in central Tel Aviv. Its English pages say he opened it in 2013, and it calls its kitchen AsiaTerranean, a meeting of Asian street food and the Mediterranean kitchen. By its own account, before it opened Ben Neriah spent three months in India, China, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia studying street food, textures, colours, spices and flavours, then about half a year in a temporary professional kitchen where every dish was planned, cooked and documented, and for the restaurant's tenth anniversary he took the journey on to Indonesia. The menu is built as a journey from soft and delicate flavours to deep and bold ones, in groups named for the five elements, Water, Wood, Fire, Earth and Metal, and its dishes are meant to be shared at the centre of the table: crispy rice cones of fish tartare or caviar and oysters in tom kha to start, then bluefin tuna sashimi and har gow, Shanghai dumplings of veal cheek, red tuna bao, a vegetable massaman and mussels in yellow curry, and from the Metal group a fried whole sea bass, butter chicken and a Vietnamese pepper steak. Its sake list, from small family breweries in Japan, is by its own account the fruit of Ben Neriah's research. Besides the dining room it has a lounge with a shared table for about 22, a covered and air-conditioned courtyard with its own entrance, and a chef's room for up to 18 with a screen for business meetings. Its website lists Time Out's best new restaurant of 2013 and best restaurant of 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2019 among its awards and links a TED talk in which Ben Neriah tells its story, and its booking page recalls his season beside Avi Biton at the MasterChef judges' table. Time Out's Sharon Ben-David, including it in a list of 26 recommended fine-dining restaurants in June 2026, wrote that Taizu is not just a safe stock but a real unicorn and singled out the Shanghai dumplings, and Time Out's list of Asian restaurants that month mentioned its Indian Sunday evenings. Channel 13 wrote in February 2026 that it had been open for 13 years. The same group runs Cafe Taizu, a more casual Asian kitchen for sit-down meals and delivery, and Ben Neriah also runs the restaurant a, further along Menachem Begin. The light rail's Carlebach station on the Red Line is about 380 metres away.
What happens here
- Sunday to Wednesday, 12:00 to 17:45; Thursday, 12:00 to 15:00
- 20% off the food at lunch
Its menu on its booking page gives 20% off the food menu at these hours; the discount is on the food only.
- Saturday, from 12:00
- Saturday set lunch
A first course, a second and a main for 220 shekels a diner, without drinks or desserts, with the à la carte classics alongside. Its Saturday menu page says it is served until 15:30, and its booking page adds two dishes for children.
- Every evening from 18:30; Friday from 17:30
- Tasting meal for two
480 shekels a person, paid in advance and booked at least a day ahead: a tartare cone, four rounds of dishes from the menu, from the Bengali carpaccio to the fried whole sea bass, and a dessert of your choice, without drinks or the tip.
As published on taizu.co.il, read 2026-10-01.
At a glance
- Shabbat
- Open Saturday 12:00-15:00, 18:30-22:30
- Kosher
- No certificate
- Diet
- AsiaTerranean, southeast asian street food
- Prices
- ₪₪₪ of ₪₪₪
- Wheelchair
- Step-free from the car park with lifts, accessible toilets in the building, disabled parking
- Parking
- Accessible parking listed
- Own website
- Active on Instagram
- Facebook page
- Open on Friday
Photos
On its Facebook
For illustration: the trade, not Taizu itself. Its own pictures: 993 posts on Instagram
Opening hours
Checking the clock in Israel
| Sunday to Wednesday | 12:00-22:00 |
|---|---|
| Thursday | 12:00-15:00, 18:30-22:30 |
| Friday | 12:00-15:00, 17:30-22:30 |
| Saturday | 12:00-15:00, 18:30-22:30 |
| Sukkot | 26 September to 2 October |
| Simchat Torah | 3 Octoberfrom Friday evening |
Taizu 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 taizu.co.il, read 2026-10-01. All Shabbat times
Sources disagree on these hours
These are the hours on the 'when and where' page of its website, updated in July 2026: straight through from 12:00 to 22:00 from Sunday to Wednesday, and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday lunch from 12:00 to 15:00 and dinner from 18:30 (on Friday from 17:30) to 22:30. Its booking page on Ontopo gives the same shape for the coming week, with Friday's lunch sitting until 14:30 and the last Saturday dinner booking at 22:00, and says the menu is served from 12:00 to 22:30 every day except Saturday lunch, when the Saturday set menu is served; that menu's own page says it runs until 15:30. Its Google listing, as Wanderlog copies it, has 12:00 to 23:00 from Sunday to Thursday, 12:00 to 15:00 and 17:30 to 23:00 on Friday, and 12:00 to 15:30 and 18:30 to 23:00 on Saturday. Time Out's brunch list of May 2026 gave a Friday brunch from 11:00 to 14:00, while its booking page says there is no brunch at Friday lunch. Its reservations line answers from 10:00 to 23:30. d.co.il gives daytime hours that are not the restaurant's.
Location
23 Derech Menachem Begin, Levinstein Tower, Tel Aviv-Yafo6618356
- Train: Tel Aviv HaHagana1.2 km from the door, straight line
- Bus: Nearest stop 36 mlines 1, 40, 42, 44, 189, 463, 466, 599 and 1 more
- Parking: Accessible parking listedIts website offers diners discounted parking in the Levinstein Tower car park, entered from 23 Menachem Begin. Its booking page gives the rates as 35 shekels for up to three hours from Monday to Thursday between 11:00 and 17:30, 25 shekels between 17:30 and 06:00 and 25 shekels on Friday and Saturday mornings, with the parking ticket shown to the host at the door. The booking page also names the car park at 16 Tyomkin Street, 110 metres away, and OpenStreetMap maps the Beit Hadar multi-storey car park, with 589 paid spaces, about 160 metres to the west.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-01.
Reviews
- Google4.57465 ratings · As quoted by wanderlog.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Google
- Tripadvisor4.31203 ratings · As quoted by wanderlog.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Tripadvisor
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Questions
About Taizu
- Open on ShabbatOn Saturday it is open 12:00-15:00, 18:30-22:30.
- 8,668 public ratingsAcross Google, Tripadvisor, each linked below with the day we read it.
- 1.2 km from Tel Aviv HaHagana stationBus stops within 256 m: דרך מנחם בגין/הרכבת, הרכבת/דרך מנחם בגין, הרכבת/סלומון, דרך מנחם בגין/נחמני, ישראל טל/דרך מנחם בגין, סלומון/הרכבת, יהודה הלוי/נחמני.
- Its own website and social pagesThe menu and the news come from the business itself, not from a directory.
- Price band ₪₪₪Its booking page on Ontopo marks its price level as $$$, and Rest puts it in the third of four price bands; Time Out placed it in the 'very expensive' tier of its fine-dining list in June 2026. On the evening menu its website updated on 1 September 2026, the small bites cost 24 to 54 shekels a piece, the shared dishes of the Water, Wood, Fire and Earth groups 58 to 118, the main dishes of the Metal group 118 to 218, and the cut aged on the bone 82 shekels per 100 grams; desserts cost 54 to 62 and cocktails 62 to 74. The Saturday set lunch is 220 shekels a diner, and the tasting meal for two 480 shekels a person.
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Taizu is a restaurant at 23 Derech Menachem Begin, Levinstein Tower in Tel Aviv-Yafo, in the Tel Aviv District. Behind it: chef and founder Yuval Ben Neriah.
It publishes its menu on taizu.co.il; 18 of its dishes are listed below with their prices, as read on 1 October 2026.
Hours, as listed on taizu.co.il on 1 October 2026: Sunday to Wednesday 12:00 to 22:00, Thursday 12:00 to 15:00 and 18:30 to 22:30, Friday 12:00 to 15:00 and 17:30 to 22:30, Saturday 12:00 to 15:00 and 18:30 to 22:30.
The nearest railway station is Tel Aviv HaHagana, 1.2 km away. The nearest bus stops are דרך מנחם בגין/הרכבת (36 m), הרכבת/דרך מנחם בגין (132 m), הרכבת/סלומון (146 m). Its website offers diners discounted parking in the Levinstein Tower car park, entered from 23 Menachem Begin. Its booking page gives the rates as 35 shekels for up to three hours from Monday to Thursday between 11:00 and 17:30, 25 shekels between 17:30 and 06:00 and 25 shekels on Friday and Saturday mornings, with the parking ticket shown to the host at the door. The booking page also names the car park at 16 Tyomkin Street, 110 metres away, and OpenStreetMap maps the Beit Hadar multi-storey car park, with 589 paid spaces, about 160 metres to the west.
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 23 Menachem Begin. Its own pages show no certificate, it opens on Friday evening and on Saturday, and its menu has shrimp, oysters, mussels and caviar and a butter chicken made with ghee and sour cream. mako called it not kosher in 2022. Time Out wrote in June 2026 that Cafe Taizu, the group's casual kitchen, has opened a kosher branch in Sarona Market; that is a separate place. Its accessibility statement, last updated on 12 October 2020, names the company that runs it and describes the arrangements at 23 Menachem Begin: disabled parking in the restaurant's building and in the nearby paid Tyomkin car park, including for high vehicles, a step-free route from the car park through the entrance to the service, with lifts, accessible service points, an induction loop for hearing aids, accessible toilets in the building's lobby and on its floors, and service animals welcome.
Its accessibility statement names תגלית אסייתית חדשה בע״מ as the company behind it, and Wolt's legal line for Cafe Taizu names the same company. The Companies Registrar lists תגלית אסייתית חדשה בע"מ (New Asian Discovery Ltd), company number 514742881, registered at the restaurant's own address, 23 Derech Begin: an active private company incorporated on 4 April 2012, which has filed its annual report for 2026. It appears on the municipal business licence register.
השף יובל בן נריה מציג אינטרפרטציה אישית ומקומית למאכלי רחוב מחמש מדינות בדרום מזרח אסיה: הודו, סין, תאילנד, וייטנאם וקמבודיה. טרם פתיחת המסעדה יצא בן נריה למסע קולינרי-תרבותי בן שלושה חודשים במדינות אלו וחקר מאכלי רחוב, טקסטורות, צבעים, תבלינים וטעמים.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 23 Menachem Begin. Its own pages show no certificate, it opens on Friday evening and on Saturday, and its menu has shrimp, oysters, mussels and caviar and a butter chicken made with ghee and sour cream. mako called it not kosher in 2022. Time Out wrote in June 2026 that Cafe Taizu, the group's casual kitchen, has opened a kosher branch in Sarona Market; that is a separate place. rabanut.co.il2026-10-01
- Accessibility statement
- Its accessibility statement, last updated on 12 October 2020, names the company that runs it and describes the arrangements at 23 Menachem Begin: disabled parking in the restaurant's building and in the nearby paid Tyomkin car park, including for high vehicles, a step-free route from the car park through the entrance to the service, with lifts, accessible service points, an induction loop for hearing aids, accessible toilets in the building's lobby and on its floors, and service animals welcome. taizu.co.il2026-10-01
- Companies Registrar
- Its accessibility statement names תגלית אסייתית חדשה בע״מ as the company behind it, and Wolt's legal line for Cafe Taizu names the same company. The Companies Registrar lists תגלית אסייתית חדשה בע"מ (New Asian Discovery Ltd), company number 514742881, registered at the restaurant's own address, 23 Derech Begin: an active private company incorporated on 4 April 2012, which has filed its annual report for 2026. 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 23 Menachem Begin that requires a business licence, over 357 square metres, with a start date of 5 June 2012; it was read on 1 October 2026. It is the only restaurant use among the 54 entries at the address, most of them offices in the tower. gisn.tel-aviv.gov.il2026-10-01
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| Field | Value | Source | Read on | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | טאיזו / Taizu | taizu.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Address | 23 Derech Menachem Begin, Levinstein Tower | taizu.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 32.06385, 34.7797765 (OpenStreetMap) | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 03-522-5005 | taizu.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | WhatsApp 054-455-5712 | ontopo.com | Fact, shown | |
| Website | taizu.co.il | taizu.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Table bookings | ontopo.com | taizu.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Logo | Its own icon, from ontopo.com | ontopo.com | Quoted, attributed | |
| Opening hours | Sunday to Wednesday 12:00 to 22:00, Thursday 12:00 to 15:00 and 18:30 to 22:30, Friday 12:00 to 15:00 and 17:30 to 22:30, Saturday 12:00 to 15:00 and 18:30 to 22:30 | taizu.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| What happens here | 20% off the food at lunch; Saturday set lunch; Tasting meal for two | taizu.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Google rating | 4.5 from 7465 ratings, as quoted by wanderlog.com | google.com | Fact, shown | |
| Google review text | Belongs to the reviewers | google.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Tripadvisor rating | 4.3 from 1203 ratings, as quoted by wanderlog.com | tripadvisor.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Tripadvisor review text | Belongs to the reviewers | tripadvisor.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Price band | ₪₪₪ | ontopo.com | Fact, shown | |
| Menu | 18 items with prices | taizu.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | None published | rabanut.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | Step-free from the car park with lifts, accessible toilets in the building, disabled parking | taizu.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Parking | Its website offers diners discounted parking in the Levinstein Tower car park, entered from 23 Menachem Begin. Its booking page gives the rates as 35 shekels for up to three hours from Monday to Thursday between 11:00 and 17:30, 25 shekels between 17:30 and 06:00 and 25 shekels on Friday and Saturday mornings, with the parking ticket shown to the host at the door. The booking page also names the car park at 16 Tyomkin Street, 110 metres away, and OpenStreetMap maps the Beit Hadar multi-storey car park, with 589 paid spaces, about 160 metres to the west. | taizu.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | Tel Aviv HaHagana 1.2 km; דרך מנחם בגין/הרכבת 36 m; דרך מנחם בגין/הרכבת 56 m; הרכבת/דרך מנחם בגין 132 m; הרכבת/סלומון 146 m; דרך מנחם בגין/נחמני 169 m; הרכבת/סלומון 176 m; ישראל טל/דרך מנחם בגין 247 m; סלומון/הרכבת 249 m; יהודה הלוי/נחמני 256 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Delivery apps | Not on Wolt or 10bis | Our own check | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | Its accessibility statement names תגלית אסייתית חדשה בע״מ as the company behind it, and Wolt's legal line for Cafe Taizu names the same company. The Companies Registrar lists תגלית אסייתית חדשה בע"מ (New Asian Discovery Ltd), company number 514742881, registered at the restaurant's own address, 23 Derech Begin: an active private company incorporated on 4 April 2012, which has filed its annual report for 2026. | 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 23 Menachem Begin that requires a business licence, over 357 square metres, with a start date of 5 June 2012; it was read on 1 October 2026. It is the only restaurant use among the 54 entries at the address, most of them offices in the tower. | gisn.tel-aviv.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| The owners' own words | Quoted from taizu.co.il | taizu.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 3 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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