Secret
cocktails
The shabby Imperial Hotelmight look like it’s been
awaiting renovation since the 1970s –but go through the
lobby and you’ll find a tiny speakeasy, currently ranked 17
in the50Best Bars in theWorld. There are 150cocktails
on themenu, all inspiredby the fruits and flavours of
former South-East Asia colonies.Well, thebar is called
Imperial Craft.
imperialhotel.co.il
Take some timeout at theKabbalah
Centre, wheremeditationcanbe
pairedwith abit of celeb-watching.
Demi Moore,Madonna andAshton
Kutcher have allmade apilgrimage.
kabbalah.com/tel-aviv
For analternative start toShabbat,
join the jam sessionatDolphinarium
BeacheveryFriday at sunset.
Dancingandcapoeriaare
accompaniedby acacophonyof
darbukadrums and tincans.
Tel Avivhasbeencyclecrazy since
its Tel-O-Funbike-hire scheme
launched in2011, but now it’s all
about electricbikes–essential in
40
o
C summerheat. Rent them from
PolePosition.
polepositiontlv.com
Thedaytrip
YADVASHEM
Israel’sHolocaustHistoryMuseum ison theoutskirtsof Jerusalem
but, at only anhour’sdrive fromBenGurionAirport, it’swell worth
adetour. Its sculpturalmemorials arecuratedacross ahuge, open-
air complex, designedbyMosheSafdie,making for abeautiful, if
soberingexperience.
yadvashem.org,msafdie.com
Localknowledge
Thekids
URBANFARM
TelAviv’schild-friendly
culturemean families
will feelwelcomealmost
everywhere, but the
city farm inYarkonPark,
with itspublic
allotments, pettingzoo
andFriday farmers’
market, isaparticularly
gooddayout.
visit-tel-aviv.com
Thestay
BROWNBEACHHOUSE
Thereare tonnesof
boutiquehotels, but this
place,whichopened last
summer, takesour first
prize for understated
yet immaculatedesign.
We love its geometric
floors, four-poster
beds and sea-view
balconies, deckedout
withcocoon-like sun
loungers.
browntlv.com
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