Pitmaster — Restaurant in Petah Tikva

TL;DR Great meats and atmosfere!

This place offers a feast of different meats and drinks at a fixed price. It is not just about the food. They made a show out of it with music, a bit too much talk, and letting people take part, but the meat is the star of this show.

Since I have a veggie wife who has nothing to do there It took me some time, but I finally found the company to go with.

The place has 3 sitting areas, the main hall is in front of the meat smoker where all the action is, the balcony and the porch - that have large TVs that show what is going on next to the smoker. Some will think it's a bit too noisy but it has a great atmosphere and music

The tables are large and shared, so you get to sit with other people. When you get seated, there are a few cold cuts on the table, and then they start streaming different meats at your table, each one is displayed on the counter in front of the smoker with explanations.

They say each time it's different, but what our feast included: Cold cuts -Ontrib with rice  it was excellent! threads of delicious meat and nice rice. -Giros was not very good. it came with nice bread and dips, but it seems mostly for the show of taking it off the skewer. I had better ones on the street. -Entrecote was perfectly made, soaked with bits of fat - it was really good!! -Chicken baked for a long time with lamb  wrapped in dough . I had low expectations when they showed it on the counter, but it was really good. Asado with potatoes was amazing, very soft, and full of flavors. Picanha the meat was perfect but they put too much spices on it and destroyed it. instead of great meat, I tasted cinnamon or baharat. really disappointing. it had the potential to get to the top 3 dishes, but it ended up just above the Giros. Denver cut in toffee cream. It was nice.

For dessert: black coffee, tea and some cake, the place is kosher after all.

You get a lot of food served to the table. They say you end up with ~1.4 kilos per person.

You get pitchers of water, beer, and wine (both ok) to the table that are constantly replaced with new ons. You will get out full, drunk and happy :)

There is a parking lot just across the street but the light train station is close to it and then you don't have to drive which would be challenging after all the...

I'm not sure why so many people are talking of this place as a show. It is an interesting restaurant where the meat cooked on the fire is the star of the show. The concept is 7 meat courses plus desert. Beer, wine, and water are included. All this is priced 300 Nis, which is actually quite reasonable considering what you get. You also enjoy a short explanation for each course and sometimes some customers are invited to the open kitchen to help. This, I guess, is the show part. Now the food. It changed every night according to the mood of the pitmaster and is not known in advance to the guest. I won't go through every course, but it goes from araes to Duck, up to entrecote. The meat is always the centre of attention, and there is some small side dish for every course. Every dish was good and well thought but my favourite on that day was the entrecote and the smoke assado. The dessert, a chocolate cake with caramel and whipped cream, was ok, but at that point, you are too full to enjoy anything. It's a great meal worth trying at least ones if you are a meat lover. But it is not recommended for people who...

We were celebrating last Monday with my wife our 35 marriage anniversary. And since we are Argentinians, we decided to celebrate it in Pitmaster.

The place offers different kind of meats (7 dishes) at fixed price with great atmosphere and free house wine and beer.

They said each day in the week there is a different cheff or “parrillero” in charge or the dishes, unfortunately on my day, was not a good one From the 7 dishes, only 2 were really kind of steaks, and another 2 were kind of smoked asado. We love asado, but the real one from the grill, the smoked one tastes like baked one. Each one of the dishes were small ones, after the 7 dishes, I felt I could eat at least 2 or 3 dishes more.

My wife and me were really disappointed!

Bottom line: if you are a meat lover, and you expect to eat a lot of good quality meat, this is not the...