מסעדת פופינה, אחד העם 3, תל אביב
Popina – פופינה
מסעדת שף חדשה בניצוחו של השף אוראל קמחי (28). פופינה (מטבח בלטינית) שוכנת בשכונת נווה צדק בין הרחובות שבזי ואחד העם (צמוד למקום של בשר). קמחי מספר כי הסגנון הוא מטבח שף מודרני המציע מנות מוקפדות. בחלל הפנימי מטבח פתוח ממנו יוצאות המנות. במקום גם חצר אינטימית (כ-80 מקומות ישיבה סך הכל).
מסעדת פופינה
כתובת: אחד העם 3, תל אביב
פופינה בפייסבוק
טלפון: 035757477
Firstly I must mention to you that my friends and I, we like trying new cuisines & flavours, we go out for food at least twice a month and we usually don’t pay over 100 per person. I must also declare to you that we don’t have strange willing on food.
We decided to go to this restaurant as we wanted to see what is the fuss all about reg this cuisine place …it seems that for Tel Aviv newest thing it is more about the newest coolest place to be seen at or, say for example “I have been there” I.e I am somebody! Ridiculous!!!
It is located in Neve Zedek in Tel Aviv opposite a main road . It’s very easy to find it, and medium – easy to park your car. We parked our cars alone and I don’t know if this service is free or you have to pay extra.
We reached the place at about 20:00 and as we have made a reservation in advance we had no worries on waiting for free table. However the place was full to the half of it…strange and unusual thing for a early Sunday noon in our country. When you get in, there’s a man (the boss I think) who helps you find your reserved table and a woman holding a “PR” position. He was friendly and as about her, she had a pleasant look all the time.
The place has bright colours minimal design and it looks clean and tidy. I wouldn’t say it is kid-friendly. Even if we don’t have kids I should mention this. Despite the fact that has very big room, it is fulfilled of tables and there’s no area for kids. The first thing that you will notice, which made us disappointed, was the very loud sound, so loud we couldn’t intimate conversation. Nevertheless the songs, the system played (new kind of pop) had nothing to do with this kind of place.
The menu has no certain speciality or surprises. They serve appetizers (cold & hot dishes) which was not so good and kind of overdone . They also have deserts but we did ordered and I can’t say anything on this except that the “Alaska” this is over sour ; the soufflé is boring and regular with the crushed Oreo’s on the side (now even W for WOW) You can choose on drinking wine, risking (over priced), beer or sodas.
The service was absolutely great the food isn’t (Montifiouri is far better in food wise) . The waiters had extremely good mood. The Manager is not as professional as you expect a restaurant that serves a bottle of wine for over 200 NIS.
We spend over $300 (a little more than $75 per person!) but the price is not comparable to the food and service – too much money. In conclusion the whole experience was not good, I would never go again to this place for any reason and I don’t recommend this restaurant, not even to my worst enemy.
A day after, both of us were sick to out stomach. Throwing up 6 times and taking medicine like we ate something bad. Our friend friend ate there as well and she was at the hospital the next day (and she was pregnant).
The manager offered us a compensation of 350 NIS. I told him to keep it to himself. Shame!
In a few words…you should better try McDonalds on the Rotchaild Street road…close to the restaurant. That bad!!