Mool Yam

Mool Yam (in Hebrew: מול ים; the verbal meaning is "across the sea") is an Israeli restaurant located in Tel Aviv Port, Tel Aviv.

Mool Yam was established in 1995 by Shalom Maharovsky, its current owner; the chef is Yoram Nitzan. The restaurant specialized in sea food and fish, which mainly import from different parts of the world and a little meat and vegetarian dishes. Some of the dishes include: Coquille St. Jacques and seaweed, made of seared scallops on a delicate "Wakama" flavored butter, Shitake mushroom and wasabi velouté; Nova-Scotia Lobster;^[1] Lobster cooked Sous-vide on Porcini cream, wild mushroom and honey-thyme foam; Rack of Galilee lamb with root vegetables in a Cabernet sauce; Grilled Danish Scampi, Blue Crab sauce & green salad. ^[2]

Mapa guide to Israel's best restaurants writes: "The matching between the minimalist and delicate treatment of Yoram Nitzan and the finest fish, seafood and wines that Shalom Maharovsky import, makes Mool Yam the best fish restaurant in Israel and especially the best seafood restaurant in Israel." ^[3] Gault Millau Israel awarded the restaurant its top rating for five consecutive years. This is the first and only Israeli restaurant that includes in "Le Grandes Tables du Monde" restaurants guide, it appears in the guide since 2003. ^[4] It was chosen as one of the ten best restaurants in Israel by Sagi Cohen, Maariv (newspaper) food critic. ^{[5] [6]} and chosen as one of the best restaurants in Israel by Daniel Rogov, Haaretz food and wine critic^[7] and as one of the ten best restaurants by Al Hashulchan magazine ^[8] Mapa guide writes that: "Maybe it's the best restaurant in Israel ^[9]

References

1. ^ Mool Yam's Business menu
2. ^ Mool Yam's A lA Carte Menu
3. ^ Mapa guide to Israel's best restaurants and B&bs, Mapa publishers house, 2011, pg 53.
4. ^ Mool Yam Site
5. ^ Sagi Cohen, The Ten Best Israeli restaurants, Maariv (newspaper),
6. ^ Ruti Ruso and Sagi Cohen (April 9, 2009), The Ten Best restaurants in Israel, Maariv (newspaper)
7. ^ Daniel Rogov (December 18, 2004), The Ten Best restaurants in Israel, Haaretz
8. ^ The Ten Best restaurants in Israel, Al Hashulchan magazine 2009.
9. ^ Hilik Gurfinkel, Culinary Journey: Mapa's New Good Food Guide to Israel, Mapa Publishers, 2009, pg 121.

External Links

• Mool Yam Site
• Restaurant description, yourway.co.il
• Niv Gilboa (April 17th), Pisces: The Family of Mool Yam, Big Time magazine
• Iris Avramovich (August 24th 2008), The Upper Carp, Ynet
• Hanoch Bar-Shalom (June 26th 2002), The Chef and the Sea, Ynet
• Michal Palaty (February 20th 2006), The War on the Pan, Haaretz
• Oshrat Yekutiel (October 20th 2010), Business Menu in Mool Yam: Fish and Sea Food in International Level, City Mouse