Jerusalem Mixed Grill: A Tour and Tastings at Mahane Yehuda Market and Nachlaot

Market carts piled high with vegetables, grandmothers with fresh meat that will soon become kubbeh, and tourists from around the world. Friday morning at Mahane Yehuda Market: dipping bread into hummus, drinking coffee, and tasting knafeh. Soon the Sabbath will descend, and the commotion will be replaced by sacred quiet.

Or perhaps it is the nightlife that intrigues you. As evening falls, the merchants’ calls give way to street food, music from the colorful bars, and an atmosphere found only in the most colorful market in the country.

Come taste Mahane Yehuda Market through its stories and food, spirit, experience, and cuisine all together—from legendary hummus to a Jerusalem dessert.

Join a tasting tour featuring the most worthwhile food (and the most photogenic!) led by Yosef and his team in Mahane Yehuda and the Nahlaot neighborhood!

The tasting tour of Mahane Yehuda Market is filled with special colors, aromas, and flavors, bringing you the market in its authentic form—a complete mosaic of merchants, market stalls, butcher shops, galleries, and restaurants.

You are invited to a guided culinary tour through the colorful streets of Mahane Yehuda Market. During the tour, you will hear about the market’s construction and development, its characters, famous families, and legendary shops that grew within the market.

You will pass through and taste delicacies from the market’s most interesting stalls, meet the merchants, and listen to their amusing stories, which over time have become an inseparable part of the colorful character of Mahane Yehuda Market today.

A fascinating tour of the Nahlaot neighborhood, following the Benai family

You will continue on a tour and glimpse the bustling lives of the Hasidic courtyards, schools and shtiebels, Gan HaTena, and, of course, the house at 1 HaAgas Street.

While wandering through the neighborhood, it is quite common to encounter an elderly woman pulling a market cart loaded with vegetables alongside a group of young students and tourists from the other side of the world—all in one special place, amid a magical Jerusalem atmosphere.

During the tour, you will enjoy 5–7 tastings:

• Foods from the stall of the etrog man—Uzi-Eli, who specializes in wonder drinks
• Hummus at the most Jerusalem-like place there is
• A visit to the market’s tahini factory
• A taste of the market pastry
• Amazing falafel
• Kurdish stuffed grape leaves
• Organic halva
• A shot of Israeli arak
• A surprising Yemenite dish
• An original Jerusalem knafeh to finish

• The tour is led by Yosef and his team of guides.
• Tastings may change according to availability and season.
• All tastings are kosher, dairy/pareve.
• The tour will take place subject to a minimum number of participants.