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Meat Pizza Bar
24 Raoul Wallenberg, Ramat Hahayal, Tel Aviv
Tel: 03-670-4010
Kashrut: Rabbanut Tel Aviv
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Open Sunday - Thursday: 12:00 noon till last customer. Open Motzei Shabbat half hour after Shabbat till last customer.
Closed Friday and Shabbat.
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Gustoso
November 2015
Heres something new a kosher meaty pizza restaurant. Most if not all pizza restaurants in Israel are dairy. As Gustoso is a kosher restaurant, the pizza in fact the whole restaurant has no milk or cheese. Will a meaty pizza be tasty? We wondered. What else is on offer? Will a non-meat eater find happiness at a meaty pizza restaurant?
Gustoso is located in the courtyard of the Ziv building. There is plenty of indoor seating and additional
outdoor seating. Street parking is available on the side streets off Wallenberg in the evening there is an
underground pay parking lot in the Ziv building, and pay parking lots on the side streets.
Gustoso is a lovely restaurant. The dcor is warm and woody. The atmosphere is young and fun. There is
a long bar with seating, high tables and chairs, and plenty of comfortable standard height seating.
About The Gustoso Menu
Gustoso has one of the most creative menus that we have seen. The restaurant has a concept that is clear and well executed. About half of the dishes at this meat restaurant are veggie/parve. The parve
dishes on the evening menu are mostly vegetable dishes. There is a parve pasta dish on the lunch menu.
The dinner menu (Hebrew only at the time of this writing) is in 4 sections:
Munchies light starters
Siftach Openers
Lifnim Pizzas
Finale - Desserts
For me, the starters are the most fun part of the menu. These are usually small dishes, varied, nicely
presented, that are a good platform to show off the creativity of the chef. The Gustoso menu has two
sections of starters Munchies and Siftach. That is my kind of restaurant. We chose a parve veggie dish
from each of the opener categories.
Munchies are light starters and include favorites like fried cauliflower, mushroom tempura, sweet
potato chips adamame, etc. These go really well with a glass of beer, or to whet-your-appetite before the
pizza. We enjoyed a platter of fried cauliflower served with sweet chili sauce on a bed of lettuce. As we
were planning to also have a main course, this dish had enough florets for both me and my
companion to share.
Siftach openers are a bit more substantial than the munchies. We enjoyed a dish of grilled eggplant with tomatoes, olives, and herbs as the
opener, served with wedges of focaccia. The eggplant was dotted with techina, which looked like
cheese, but we know better.
The main courses and the signature dish at Gustoso is the meaty pizza. The crispy thin-crusted pizza is
baked in the restaurants on site stone taboun oven. There is a nice variety of pizzas available in two
sizes: 23cm and 30cm round.
At Gustoso, pizzas are a gourmet main dish. The pizza meat is lamb or calf ground meat that is slow
cooked with root vegetables. Pizza is available with white or whole wheat dough or a gluten free variety. There is a selection of
toppings including red onions, mushrooms, olives, dried tomatoes and various sliced sausage.
There are many different types of pizza, categorized by the flavors of different country cuisine. Choose
from Argentinean flavored, Greek, Italian, Lebanese, Moroccan, Mexican, Iraqi, etc. A variety of
toppings are available and you can even make your own pizza, combining different toppings. My
companion, who has a preference for spicy foods, chose the Moroccan pizza. Expect this to be hot and
spicy, he was warned, and it was. The ground lamb meat was flavored with authentic Moroccan herbs
and spices. The pizza was topped with Merguez sausage and fresh chili. The pizza was dotted
with techina that looked like cheese, but we know better.
Pizza, whether dairy or meat, go well with a glass of beer. There is a wide selection of beer, but my companion
chose the exotic Weihenstephan beer. Originally a monastary brewery, this is touted as the oldest brewery in the world,
from the year 1040. Not just beer, the restaurant has a full bar and a great alcohol menu. There are
cocktails, whiskey, vodka, tequila, martinis, Campari and various sweet liquors.
For your Finale the restaurant offers several desserts. We did not avail ourselves of the desserts at this visit.
Gustoso is the perfect restaurant to visit with small or large groups. Reasonably priced with something
for everyone, this restaurant is a perfect choice for an intimate party or group dinner. We will certainly
recommend Gustoso to our shiur for our next siyum.
Munchies NIS 25 30. Salads NIS 42 49. Pizza NIS 44 68. Weihenstephan Beer NIS 28 for 1/3 liter.
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