Tasting tour of Mahane Yehuda Market | The best and tastiest places
Technical details
Tour times
By prior arrangement.
Coming as a group or prefer a private tour? We'll arrange it on a date that suits you.
Price
The price starts from 900 NIS and is coordinated with the guide according to the details of the tour.
Come with me to a celebration of colors, smells, and flavors at the Mahane Yehuda Market
- We will absorb the electrifying Jerusalem atmosphere.
- We will get to know the market people and their work.
- We will taste authentic, local foods that have been preserved for centuries, passed down from father to son, and are still with us today only in the Mahane Yehuda Market.
On a market tasting tour, we will visit the most worthwhile and delicious places, enjoy unique tastings and authentic local food prepared on site.
Tour location
Mahane Yehuda Market
Mahane Yehuda Market offers the traveler a wide variety of stimuliFrom stalls selling fresh vegetables and fruits, fish, meat, nuts and spices to impressive gourmet restaurants. The wide variety of food stalls, quality restaurants, the large selection and the abundance of food have made Jerusalem the culinary capital of Israel.
Have you ever seen a market that never stops for a moment? Well, the Mahane Yehuda Market is one such market.
In the evening, changing its character from a bastade to a vegetable and fruit vendor, it becomes a popular entertainment venue. Friends sit on the bastade and cheer, impressive bars open under the cover of darkness, and the market fills with friends who come to celebrate life in an authentic and unique Jerusalem atmosphere.
We raise glasses to cheers, sing, dance, and thus the shouts of the market traders selling their produce are replaced by immersive rhythmic music that invites us to join the celebration.
Tour structure:
Content will also be added to the market tasting - we will tell about its establishment as a "loan and savings market" since its inception.
We will walk through the alleys and get to know the Banai family home.
We will go to the Nachlaot neighborhood.
We will visit the strawberry garden and tell about the neighborhood's life as Yitzhak Navon wrote about it in the musical "Sephardi Orchard"
If we have more time and energy left, we will also visit the Haredi neighborhoods in the market area.
Our tasting will be:
⬤ The traditional Jerusalem tabun – We will visit an old bakery that preserves the baking of the Jerusalem pita “Ash Tanor”. Enjoy it hot from the stove alongside a variety of salads, authentic Jerusalem hummus made by hand, eggplant salad, pickles and more.
⬤ We will visit the market's tahini mill In it, sesame seeds are ground with millstones and organic tahini is produced in a variety of flavors.
⬤ We will taste various pastries from the market.
⬤ Persian spices and various nuts For enriching food and salads.
⬤ Unique blends for making drinks.
⬤ Halva in a variety of flavors.
⬤ Unique cheese platters Crackers and snacks.
⬤ And of course we raise our hands and nod in a sweet embrace Baked on site and enriched with toppings.
Come hungry!
Guide details:
Tali Yehoshua
"I love to share my love for travel, adventure, beauty and nature with many people. I love taking travelers to magical sites in Israel, sharing information with them and giving them excitement and pleasure that makes them fall in love with Israel every time."
◀ Certified tour guide from the Israel Ministry of Tourism.
◀ Graduate of the School of Tourism at the University of Haifa.
◀ Jerusalemite – knows Jerusalem inside out and specializes in tours of Jerusalem.
