{"id":647074,"date":"2026-05-16T17:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/647074\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T17:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:17:12","slug":"reim-bistro-friends-for-a-kosher-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/647074\/","title":{"rendered":"Reim Bistro: Friends for a Kosher dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, this is not an article about a very popular British TV series of yesteryear. It\u2019s about Reim Bistro (re\u2019im means \u201cfriends\u201d), a kosher restaurant on the border of Bnei Brak<\/a> and Tel Aviv. It has been attracting large numbers of people for its innovative take on dairy dining.<\/p>\n

Pizza and pasta are there, of course, but also some very enticing fish dishes, salads, and homemade versions of popular spreads such as tehina.<\/p>\n

We were received by head chef and restaurateur Idan Tauber, whose youthful appearance belies the fact that he has spent many years in the food industry.<\/p>\n

The restaurant has several different eating areas. We were shown into The Lounge, a more exclusive room off the main restaurant, where diners can enjoy quiet background music of the Sinatra\/Louis Armstrong type, good lighting, and fresh flowers on the snow-white linen tablecloths.<\/p>\n

Digging in<\/p>\n

For starters, my dining companion chose his favorite, tzatziki (NIS 28), made from Greek yogurt, garnished with olive oil and herbs. This version came on a bed of arugula leaves and was pronounced \u201cas good as any I have ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Tzatziki\"Tzatziki (credit: ALEX DEUTSCH)<\/p>\n

My starter was a dish of fish cigars (written as \u201csea-gar\u201d on the menu). The coating was paper-thin crispy pastry, filled with chunks of spicy white fish. For dipping, tehina was provided; and this, we were told, is homemade in the restaurant kitchen.<\/p>\n

A bread basket also arrived at our table, filled with fresh, home-baked whole wheat slices with thick crusts and a garlicky lemon dip, the whole dish proving to be a delicacy.<\/p>\n

We left the rest of the menu to Tauber and had no idea what would be coming to the table.
A very large salad, Panzanella, arrived. Among the many ingredients were cherry tomatoes, purple onion, mozzarella, and croutons rather than the traditional soggy bread. Gratitude for that.<\/p>\n

\"Panzanella.\"Panzanella. (credit: ALEX DEUTSCH)<\/p>\n

Two main courses then appeared. One was tortellini pasta with portobello mushrooms and Parmesan in a rich fresh cream sauce (NIS 91).<\/p>\n

The other dish was ceviche of sea bass mixed with cut grapes and more cream (NIS 71).
Both dishes were mouthwateringly delicious.<\/p>\n

I drank a glass of Chardonnay from the Carmel Winery, which complemented the dairy food (NIS 61), and my companion enjoyed an ice-cold beer (NIS 31).<\/p>\n

We rounded off this excellent meal with tiramisu and chocolate cake, both enhanced with masses of fresh cream (all desserts NIS 55).<\/p>\n

My companion also enjoyed a very good strong cappuccino to ensure he would be wide awake for the drive home.\u25a0<\/p>\n

Reim Bistro
4 Bar Kochva St.\u00a0
Bnei Brak
Tel: 077-997-3035
Hours: Sun.-Thurs., 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sat., 7 p.m.-11 p.m.
Kashrut: Mehadrin, Rav Machpud<\/p>\n

The writer was a guest of the restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No, this is not an article about a very popular British TV series of yesteryear. It\u2019s about Reim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[236982,299,97,143541,1766,269,19447,67096],"class_list":["post-647074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-bnei-brak","tag-food","tag-health","tag-israeli-cuisine","tag-magazine","tag-nutrition","tag-restaurant","tag-tel-aviv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}