{"id":99750,"date":"2025-10-27T00:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/99750\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T00:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:59:11","slug":"assaf-granit-revives-jerusalemite-classic-with-new-kosher-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/99750\/","title":{"rendered":"Assaf Granit revives Jerusalemite classic with new kosher restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a decade after opening the vegetarian restaurant Tzemach in Jerusalem, the Machneyuda Group, led by <a id=\"r1bZ81ES20eg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/culture\/article\/r1rwa8006kx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">chefs Assaf Granit and Uri Navon<\/a>, is shifting direction. The group plans to relocate the vegetarian restaurant to a new site and open a new kosher meat restaurant called Steakiya in its place at the Mahane Yehuda Market within about two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant will operate as a pop-up inspired by Jerusalem\u2019s traditional skewer houses, a once-popular local dining culture the group hopes to revive.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gelleryOpener\" aria-label=\"open article gallery\" data-image-id=\"ArticleImageData.Hkg4yvx2Alx\" id=\"image_ArticleImageData.Hkg4yvx2Alx\"><\/p>\n<p>1 View gallery <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ReduxEditableImage_ArticleImageData.Hkg4yvx2Alx\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BJteIs00z1l_0_323_961_721_0_x-large.jpg\" alt=\"\u05d0\u05e1\u05e3 \u05d2\u05e8\u05e0\u05d9\u05d8 \u05d5\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d1\u05d5\u05df\" title=\"Chefs Assaf Granit and Uri Navon  (Photo: Machneyuda Group) \" aria-hidden=\"false\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ReduxEditableImage_ArticleImageData.Hkg4yvx2Alx\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BJteIs00z1l_0_323_961_721_0_x-large.jpg\" alt=\"\u05d0\u05e1\u05e3 \u05d2\u05e8\u05e0\u05d9\u05d8 \u05d5\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8\u05d9 \u05e0\u05d1\u05d5\u05df\" title=\"Chefs Assaf Granit and Uri Navon  (Photo: Machneyuda Group) \" aria-hidden=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chefs Assaf Granit and Uri Navon <\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Machneyuda Group)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no places like this left in Jerusalem,\u201d Granit told the Israeli news site ynet. \u201cThe market used to be full of them \u2014 Sami, Sima, Morris, Haim Piro \u2014 and they all closed. One even claimed to have invented the steak-in-a-pita. That was how we used to go out in the city \u2014 charcoal grills, the smell, the steak in pita. That\u2019s missing now, so we decided to bring it back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Granit, who operates restaurants across Europe and Israel, said the decision reflects a return to something simple and local. \u201c\u2018Tzemach\u2019 was amazing, but right now, without tourists or tourism, it\u2019s less relevant,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd yes, it was vegetarian, but now it\u2019ll be nice to do the opposite \u2014 go back to meat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Granit, Steakiya will be a classic skewer restaurant, featuring real skewers grilled over charcoal, a menu printed directly on placemats, and \u201cthe kind of atmosphere and music we know how to create.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Menu items will include hummus (NIS 32), French fries (NIS 32), arayes \u2014 grilled pita stuffed with minced meat \u2014 (NIS 42), skewers (NIS 48\u201378), and steaks by weight, including prime rib, tomahawk, picanha and beef fillet (NIS 58\u201382 per 100 grams). Desserts will feature malabi, chocolate mousse and Bavarian cream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a decade after opening the vegetarian restaurant Tzemach in Jerusalem, the Machneyuda Group, led by chefs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,85,46,543],"class_list":{"0":"post-99750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-nutrition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}