Bar Guide · Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Bar Guide
46 bars across 6 neighbourhoods, organised by occasion. From rooftop lounges in the White City to the dive bars of Florentin that fuel the city's legendary nightlife scene.
46 bars across 6 neighbourhoods, organised by occasion. From rooftop lounges in the White City to the dive bars of Florentin that fuel the city's legendary nightlife scene.
Tel Aviv has built one of the most dynamic bar scenes in the Middle East, a fact that visitors often find surprising and locals accept as completely obvious. The city's bars are sophisticated, unpretentious, and open late. The Bauhaus architecture of the White City serves as a backdrop for cocktail terraces that would hold their own in New York or London.
The tree-lined boulevard at the heart of the White City is Tel Aviv's premium bar address. The Bauhaus buildings that line the street serve as backdrop for terraces and rooftop bars that are open from mid-afternoon until the early hours. The price point here reflects the neighbourhood's status, but the quality is consistent. The Thursday and Friday evening crowd is the city's most photographed and most interesting.
The southern neighbourhood that the creative class colonised in the 1990s and has never fully left. Florentin's bars operate on the principle that quality should not require an expensive address, and the result is a cluster of cocktail bars, craft beer spots, and DJ venues that hold their own against anything in the more fashionable north. Prices are 30 to 40 percent lower than Rothschild.
Tel Aviv's oldest neighbourhood, now its most photogenic, Neve Tzedek was the city that existed before the White City was built. The narrow Ottoman-era streets contain a set of bars that suit the neighbourhood's tempo: slower, more intimate, oriented toward conversation rather than performance. The date night scene here is the best in the city, and several wine bars have opened that focus specifically on Israeli small-producer wines.
The legendary boulevard that runs north from the city centre contains the most consistent after-work bar scene in Tel Aviv. The tech and media companies that have colonised the surrounding blocks send their employees onto Dizengoff and the parallel streets from 5pm, creating a self-sustaining ecosystem of bars that varies in price from accessible to expensive within a single block.
The ancient port city absorbed into Tel Aviv's southern edge has developed a bar scene that reflects its complex identity as an Arab-Jewish mixed neighbourhood. The bars here are more experimental in both concept and cocktail than anywhere in the rest of the city, and several have achieved international recognition. The area around the Clock Tower is the best place to start.
The spice market neighbourhood south of central Tel Aviv has become the unlikely home of the city's craft beer scene. The taprooms and bottle shops that have opened adjacent to the market stalls create a contrast between old and new that is distinctly Tel Avivian. Best on a Saturday morning when the market is in full operation and the taprooms open early for the weekend crowd.
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