Moshiko Falafel — Restaurant in Jerusalem

Good falafels, very friendly staff, low prices (starting from 18NIS for falafel in pita, 35NIS for falafel on a plate). Very good pita and laffa bread. They have some tables, so it's possible to sit down and eat while enjoying the view of a very alive street.

Sometimes there's a line, mostly of tourists as Moshiko has their menu in English - most of the places around, with similar street food, have their menus in Hebrew only, so they don't catch that much attention of a hungry tourist.

Cons - they don't have toilet; they don't serve tap water (only water in plastic bottles - what bothers my ecological conscience - for 7NIS), they serve food only on...

A very small shop, with seating outside in the center of the street, Moshiko's has the best tasting falafels and shwarmas I had eaten while on my visit to Jerusalem. Lots of sides like pickled vegetables, french fries (chips) and hummus to choose from to go with your order. When my friend and I could not eat all we had been served, we asked for our leftovers to be put into a take out container so we could eat it later. The nice young man that was helping us served up an entire new serving!! He was most generous to these two older women traveling from America. If I ever return to Israel, I will seek out...

I've been making a point of trying chicken shawarma any chance I get and was told this is the best shawarma in Jerusalem. I misled. While the spice on the chicken was good, and the vegetable choices were good and fresh, the meat had quite a few bits of less than optimal parts of the chicken with bits of cartilage and other bits that I had to pick out. The meat was over done and a bit dry too. This isn't even close to the best shawarma I've had in Jerusalem; try the shawarma place near the top of the hill on Shlomziyon St, you...