BABA RESTAURANT

Located on Emek Refaim (restaurant row), Baba bills itself as an authentic Israeli restaurant. We are not sure just what that means. Does a multitude of hummus dishes make it authentically Israeli?

We found the food to be not very good. The felafel balls were pretty much the worst we have ever had anywhere in Israel. The hummus was thin. The hummus basar (chopped meat over a bed of hummus) might have had, oh maybe, two ounces of chopped meat.

The entrecote pieces, served with charred onion, sliced onion, grilled tomato and a pepper, was not very enticing. The meat was beyond merely tough and into the realm of impossible to chew. Under most dishes served there, they put a supposedly fried pita. Not one of us had one like that. In fact, the pita was quite soggy.

We could on and on, but why bother. Plain and simple, we found it all to be not very inexpensive and not very good.