JASIA — Restaurant in Tel-Aviv

This Asian restaurant serves the BEST asian cuisine in Jaffa, if not in Israel! We were 7 in our group and the moment we walked in, we were greeted by Natalie and led to our table. Gave us the menus and waited patiently to get our orders.

While we wait for our food, she brought 2 free appetizers so we can munch on something - their bread with homemade hummus (really delicious) and breaded cauliflower and cucumber with its own sauce.

If you have tried Asian cuisine before, you may be familiar with the name of the dishes and may look the same as you have tried before BUT, do not make the mistake of thinking that ALL Asian food taste the same, we got all the ones we knew and they all never tasted familiar, each dish presented a unique taste and texture!!! From fried rice with shrimp, fried fish, sushi salad, buttered calamari and shrimp, egg rolls and to top it off, their on the house coconut dessert --- every dish was top notch!!!

Thank you for making our first time trip to Jaffa a fantasic experience at your restaurant! Kudos to the chef and...

Not a great experience. For various reasons: The pre-starters included a tzatziki-type dish with old & sogi cucumber. The wine wasn't tasty. The mushroom starter was good, and was their saving grace! The main dish wasn't tasty, and didn't come with Basmati rice as per the menu, but with sushi/sticky rice. The restaurant didn't think that exchanging these would matter. The waitress told us that we can exchange it, which we did with sushi. But when we got the bill it included both dishes. Upon question it, the waitress said that the manager insisted to charge us for both. "but you told us we could exchange?" So she went back to the manager and gave us the correct bill.

Basically, the manager tried his luck by charging us more, and when he we stood our rights, he didn't even apologize for trying to rip us off. Just kept in the kitchen.

Not the kind of place you...

I went there with colleagues to have lunch today. English menu and Hebrew menu doesn't show the same prices. English prices are not the ones you pay for. I ordered a dish for nis39 but at eventually I paid nis69. Even if we showed them the card and the waitress and the waiter took responsibility they didn't want to make a discount to us. Actually I won't ever go there and I don't recommend that place either. Food is good, it's also expensive but nothing exceptional (despite tourists prices and local prices).

Edit of 20.09.2023. I called Amir who is supposed to be the owner of the place and he asked me to call him due to my previous comment. I asked for a refund. He pretended to not understand what I said and then he hung up on me. Very...