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Tel Aviv, Jaffa and Nazareth

Tel Aviv, Jaffa and Nazareth

Israel is a fascinating place. You have the hip and modern mixing side by side with the ancient and reverent.  This collision waiting to happen somehow manages to swerve at the last second and instead create something interesting. Starting our trip in Tel Aviv, we 

Manna

Manna

Given that I am soon to visit Israel, when the word “manna” was mentioned, the heavenly version quickly sprung to mind.  This is what the Israelite ate during their wanderings in the desert to provide sustenance.  If they ate this for 40 years, it must 

Flour & Grape

Flour & Grape

Naming your restaurant after ingredients can work out well.  Look at burger and lobster, serving burger and lobster.  Bubbledogs serving champagne and hotdogs.  Or perhaps most descriptively of all, Kentucky fried chicken serving Kentucky fried chicken. So I guess that when all else fails and 

Mulberry Bush

Mulberry Bush

Do you approach work place toilets with dread? Have you been scarred by something you found there before? While I would normally react with disgust and not think further on it, I recently read that actually this can be a rather aggressive act.  If you 

Parlour

Parlour

That was a particularly loquacious waiter. As we sat down at Parlour, being a bit early, we were one of the first ones in.  Which meant that we had the restaurant to ourselves and this particularly verbose server, perhaps eager to see the first the