Onami — Restaurant in Tel-Aviv

We returned to Onami after a few years and it as as good as it was

It is located in one of the few buildings that survived the construction frenzee in that area probably not for much longer so hurry up and try it before it's gone.

We ordered a table for 5 but there is also a place on the bar in it with a gong that goes from time to time and a nice atmosphere.

The restaurant is spacy and not very loud inside so could talk and enjoy the company

Usually when we go to a sushi restaurant we focus on the sushi and skip all the rest but this time we had some starters while waiting for the sushi and they were excellent!

We ordered:

Maguro Yukke: Tuna tartar seasoned with chive & soy sauce, served with quail egg yolk (₪ 72) - very good.

Agedashi Doufu: Crispy tofu cubes in hot tentsuyu sauce with nameko mushrooms, minced radish & scallion (₪48)  -  nice, take the big one it's not big

Kuro Udon: Black udon noodles with shrimp, butter, chili & garlic ( ₪ 62) - good and it's not a typo the waitress said it's called doufu and not tofu in japanese.

Zakana Butter Shoyu - Sautéed grey mullet with soy sauce, sake, mirin, butter, garlic & ginger (₪ 62) - excellent

Some cocktails that were sweet with very little alcohol.

A bottle of sake for the kick

In the sushi section The options on the menu didn't catch our eye (or stomach), so we placed ouservels in the hands of the shef - they have an option of letting the shef build a sushi combination for you with 2-3 rolls per person. Just let them know what you don't want to have (I want it all in sushi) and it will come. It turned out to be the right decision - it took some time (but we had the starters and company to enjoy) but it was very good sushi with different flavors.

The red tuna was excellent (the waitress said it is the right time for it) but also everything else. So I don't know what exactly was there but I do know it was great!

We checked the dessert menu but after all that food nothing looked appealing enough and we decided to give it up, which is not something we usually do, so please guys bump up the desserts and get the 5th star!

We ended up with a ₪1000 bill, before tip, which is not so bad for what we got and 2.5 hours of great friends we didn't see for a long time

Parking is very rare on the street and all the open parking lots are now construction sites for new towers but there is a lot of parking in the underground parking lot next to it and in the adjacent towers and in normal price (unlike other...

Journey meets journey. And a birthday evening. The greatness of Onami Restaurant is the journey it has gone through since June 1999, when it opened its doors more than 25 years ago. Onami, one of the pioneers of Japanese cuisine in Israel, is now the oldest Japanese restaurant in Israel after the closure of Yakimono Restaurant on Rothschild Boulevard in October 2021. Onami, which brought to the city of Tel Aviv, the nobility and tranquility of Japan, the meticulous and spectacular cuisine and the Japanese culture, has maintained its charm throughout the years with true Japanese wisdom. In perspective, the State of Israel is 77 years old, meaning Onami has existed for almost a third of the age of the country in the same place and provides a true Japanese experience that has survived the iPhone revolution, social networks, wars and pandemics while practically living up to its name. A great wave. Indeed a great wave, stable, proud, noble, impressive, up-to-date and with deep roots. So on the journey of Shlomi and I, we are friends of many years, Unami is always here, looking from above like the moon. We came here to celebrate our private journey within Unami's impressive journey. We ate the legendary Hagdashi Tofu, Chicken Gyoza, the Tori Benbenji, a refreshing and excellent chicken salad, a wonderful fish cheek, spectacular and delicious sushi 🍱, fine chicken gyoza and finished with a fine udon noodle dish with shredded beef, bok choy, green onions, Chinese cabbage and broccoli with yolk. A dish that was delicious and spicy as it should be. We didn't touch the desserts, we wanted to stay with the wonderful flavors of this meal well into the night. Many thanks to Amir, the restaurant manager, and to the entire team, to our waiter Toler, who was pleasant, impressive, knowledgeable, meticulous and kind. Good luck to ilai , who was his apprentice. We also learned, Shlomi and I, that Turel, is an Azeri name and means strength and power. Mazal tov to Shlomi, my beloved friend, thank you for the blessing and for being there for me, for being you. thank you Onami Be Thankful Everyday. God...

We ordered the Odon soup, agadashi tofu, seared tuna, and Chiraski. The Agadashi tofu dish was the best. The rest - not so much. The odon soup was OK but nothing exciting to justify almost 100 NIS. The Chiraski was disappointing - its like ordering sushi without the sea weed and the sushi man to actually do something.. fish on rice... The seared tuna was pretty good, great seasoning, but the real reason I'm giving 2 stars here is the desert - I had the Malabi there once and it was very good, and the only reason I ordered the lunch deal was since it included Malabi for desert. I just missed out on the name - they called it "Malabon". Only Israelis will understand that this basically means a Tiny Malabi. I understood that only when I got the dish - It is an insult to serve something so tiny as desert and mention it in the menu. At least mention it is a TINY portion as it is. I was so frustrated I asked the waitress to just take it back, after being told this is the size and there's nothing she can do. I wish she would have told me this before I ordered, it really ruined my experience.

Good job Onami - I'm not...