A long way back

As a lot of you already know I injured my knee a while back ago. It has been a hellish few weeks with a lot of physical, mental and spiritual pain. Being and athlete working with my body getting injured is one of the roughest things that can happen, it rocketed me in to a bottomless pit of incomprehensible demoralization. These past weeks were spent stumbling around with a cane eating painkillers like jelly beans and not shaving. Coupled with a few other issues in my personal life I hit a bottom. Rock fucking bottom, sick and tired of being sick and tired. I looked myself in the mirror Thursday night and did not recognize who Id turn into, a zombie slurring on the words with a lot of facial hair. Friday i woke up and realized it, I woke up shaved the beard, dropped the painkillers and went to the gym to do physio, and get some blood moving in my veins. Anyways I am on Day 5 without cane and painkillers, I feel hella lot better.


The food of today came from a little Spanish/Mexican place on lillenblum named Frida something. Food was so freaking tasty and the price was really good. I ordered a fajita which apparently it is pronounced fahita.. It set me back something like 50 shekels and came with a drink and a starter.

Starter - Tomato soup
Main - Fajita
Drink - Soda

Great place with a lovely atmosphere and service was awesome.

I give this place 4 out 5 falafels!

YESTERDAY'S DINNER @ Shipudei Hatikvah

Yesterday night was my good friend Kenny's last night in Israel ... so we of course wanted to take him to some good authentic Israeli food. We went somewhere called Shipudei Hatikvah, which is in South Tel Aviv. This is a Kosher restaurant and offers all different types of meat on skewers in addition to LAFFA bread... yes laffa bread, which look something like this...

It was amazing because they kept bringing and bringing more hot laffa and salads :) The Laffa was super delicious.. in addition to the hummus which looks like this.....

It was a bit expensive when you add in the meat but it was a meal of kings and VERY HUGE. The people were nice and overall it was a good experience.

Hits:
-Lots and Lots of food
- Varieties of meat
- Many Many salad
- a continual refill of salads and bread

Misses:
- A bit far from the center... 30 shekel taxi ride from Benyahuda or you can take the 16 Monei Sheirut from Allenby
- A bit over priced... sorta
- I asked for water with ice and they put ONE CUBE OF ICE IN MY WATER!! LOL... so the water was super warm
- I was way too full when I left...lol

I give it a 3 out of 5 falafels

VeggieBANDIT signing out...

I'm back...

Been away for some time. Struggling with injuries, I hate to be a fucking cry baby but to injure a knee when being a somewhat professional athlete sucks. I live for my sport, few things in life brings me as much happiness peace and joy as being on the mats. I am really grateful for the people in my life who pampered and caressed me when I needed it the most.

Anyways back at work after being on the sofa for the past few days with my leg in the air moaning from pain, eating painkiller like they were jellybeans.

First day back we were going to Max Brenner to eat their delicious breakfast, however these cunts stop serving breakfast at 12 o clock. Seriously, there are a million and one breakfast around the clock places on Rothschild and to keep up you can not stop serving the most delicious meal of the day at 12.

We changed our direction and went to Cafe Hillel. I don't know if it is my excessive time spent watching history channel or what but every time I hear cafe hillel I think about some Nazi war criminal. I am sure it is named after some prominent jew, however I can see Hillel standing there with Himmler and Göring at Nuremberg trials.

Now to the food. I_MASTURBATE_WITH_MAYO bailed on us after his GF fell on a bicycle (lol).




Me and veggibandit decided to have a breakfast for 2.

Eggs, salad, 2 drinks and bread with various stuff to put on it like cheese, tuna and tahini.

Seriously I am happy the price was decent the food was good enough. There was no shortages of anything and their seating is amazing with a beautiful view overlooking Rothschild Boulevard.

Hits

nice outdoor seating

tasty eggs

no extra charge for cheese in eggs

10% discount

Misses

Service was a bit slow

HELLO HELLO ...ISRAELI BREAKFAST!

So today... Monday... the second day of the glorious week. I felt like I needed a huge boost since I was out till 3 am last night and barely slept ;) So I chose to go with something super healthy and energizing... this can only mean one thing my fellow friends and followers, AN ISRAELI BREAKFAST. You can basically never go wrong with such a decadent meal... take a look...

This decadent meal comes with 2 eggs however you want it (scrambled, omelet, sunny side up etc), cheeses, tuna, jam and olives, bread, salad and two drinks of your choice... so I got freshly squeezed orange juice and a coffee...MMMMMMMMMM. Me and supersizethatshit got the breakfast for two for 92 shekels meaning 46 shekels each, which is actually quit expensive; nevertheless, I would have to say it was worth it... it's A LOT of food and you are always satisfied. We went to Cafe Hillel, which is one of the coffee shops in Tel Aviv on Rothchild, although they have many locations all around the city/country. I have to say I was quit satisfied with just about everything... theres is nothing prominent which I feel I need to complain about....lol

Hits:
-  Healthy meal
-  A lot of food
- Comes with 2 drinks!
- Good Service


Misses:
- Could be a bit cheaper
- They brought the drinks out a little late
- They brought the cheese and bread at the same time as the meal... I like to eat the cheese and bread before (Just a personal thing of mine :)

I will have to give them a rate of 3 falafels out of 5.. for both service and taste... it was good, but not much more ;)

Love always... The VEGGIEbandit!

IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME.... and because of that I got a SOUPY SALAD :(

HELLLO ALL!

First, I would like to apologize for the lack of post because supersizethatshit has torn his Meniscus
and well is incognito :( We feel bad for our dear friend and miss him unconditionally.... you are in our thoughts and prayers :)

On the other hand me and I_masturbate_With_Mayo have been making some excellent choices on where to eat for LUNCH, except when we ate at Rustico on Rothchild (In Tel Aviv, just pass Allenby). First I would like to say a few things.... its expensive, they didnt give us service for for about 20 min after waiting.... AND the food was NOT worth the money. Mutherfuckers.... The food choices are slim and you dont get much for the cost. My poor friend I_masturbate_With_Mayo asked for bread and this is what they gave him...

IF I WANTED CRACKERS I WOULD OF ASKED FOR CRACKERS!!!!!!!!!!! WTF?!?!?!?!?

Nonetheless, he got a pizza and I got antipasta...

It was ok, but mine was 38 shekels for some fucking vegetables WTF?!?!?! Nothing was included, not a drink nor bread... NOTHING ... the meal was quit a disappointment.

The service sucked... I almost got up and left because we waited 20 min just to get a menu and had to continually go out of our way for service...

They get a 1 out of 5 overall rating... DO NOT EAT AT RUSTICO!

Hits:
- Close to the office
- Food tasted just ok

Misses
- Horrible service
- Horrible and hot outside seating
- Very over priced


Today again... we ventured to the Sandwhich Factory ( Kosher and in Tel Aviv, Right behind the Max Brenner on Rothchild ) and usually I never go wrong with my omelet, cheese sandwich although today I wanted to try their salads...

Everything was going well until he SOAKED MY SALAD with dressing.... ew it was SO MUCH dressing and I am usually not the type to give back food but it was disgusting. It was more like what kind of salad do you want with your dressing instead of the opposite. So, I took it back and they were very accommodating and fixed the soupy salad.  The other issue was that is was 39 shekels... WTF... why would the sandwhich be 27 and the salad be 39???? does that make sense to you? In addtion to this the forks in the outside seating area were super dirty. ALSO>> they were drilling the wall outside, right where we were eating. Why would they choose to do this right during prime time lunch hour???? I am so upset because today ruined my perfect perception of the Sandwhich Factory... :(

Hits:
- Very Fresh
- They were accommodating when I didn't like my Salad
- I still love them because they have the best sandwich I have ever eaten :)
- Close to the office = more time to hang :)

Misses
- Soupy salad- too much dressing
- Price of salad is more than the sandwhich... WTF?!?!?
- Dirty forks outside

Overall rating: 3 out of 5 falafels
Service: 5 out of 5 falafels and very accommodating.

As for now... I am out. but I promise to post more.

Lots of LOVE... THE VEGGIEbanit ;)

Rustico

What up to all my players out there! First I would like to apologize to my loyal followers for having not posted in the past week, important matters have presented themselves, and I am not one to ignore the call of greatness.

That being said, there has been a bit of controversy over this blog, and I have just one thing to say in response to that:

Why did my text turn blue? I don't fucking know!

Ok, let's get back to the reason why we are here: food.

On Thursday me and my fellow Foodpal journeyed to Rustico, a fine Italian restaurant located on South Rothschild.

I ordered a pizza, and my associate VeggieBandit ordered some god damn antipasta. My meal came with a soup, so let's start there.

It was a cold tomato soup. The flavor was a bit tart, and overall, the flavor was a bit overwhelming to continue eating, it was a very hearty flavor, one that should be savored with a few bites, but not an entire bowl. So in lieu of this hearty flavor (and in accord with common decency) I asked for some bread to accompany my soup. The waiters were so gracious there at Rustico, they immediately brought me some fresh baked bread that I was able to soak up the soup with, ultimately balancing the flavors and resulting in an excellent appetizer experience.

NOT! Yeah fucking right, like that ever happens in my life...Look at this fucking bread...This is like a dried ass cracker stick. If I absolutely had to eat this shit to stay alive, I would rather shove it up my own ass and absorb the nutrients that way than to fucking taste these played out fucking "bread" sticks.

Ok, so obviously, the starter was disappointing, and the bread fiasco put me off to a bad start, so let's try to continue on amicably.

So my pizza arrives, and VeggieBandit's anti-pasta arrives, and I admit that the food looked good, here is a view:

Looking at it now, Jolene's looks a bit nasty, looks like egg yolk or some nasty shit, but originally it looked very tasty.

Overall my pizza was decent, adequate, average, and mediocre. But, I hate half of it, enjoyed the experience, and asked graciously for a to-go box. Here we go, this is my favorite part of the meal right here, check this out:

WOW! Thank's for wrapping my fucking pizza--This is not a joke, they literally covered it with two fucking pieces of cardboard and gave it to me. Wow, this is my life.

Overall, this was a fairly expensive meal as well, so this "double cardboard" wrap was really just a dick right in the butt. I'm going to have to give Rustico a 2.5/5 falafel-- I won't be coming back here any time soon.

That's it for today, tune back next week to hear about another shitty dining experience.

Until then, keep hustlin' playahs.

-Masturbates With Mayo

Love EAT

To LOVE to EAT or to not?

I have heard pretty good things about this place  (Love Eat) in addition that its organic which is almost unheard of here in Tel Aviv/Israel so me and my good friend  supersizethathshit went over to try it out. All was ok, the people were nice although the prices are ridiculous... 48 sheks for a lousy breakfast.  For me, I ordered an Asian rap and instead of the meat, I got tofu. This meal cost me 35 shekels...and it was nice nothing to talk about though, in addition to not being so satisfying.

The Place itself is nice... good outdoor seating but thats about it. Not much to talk about. 

It is definitely not recommended... I give it 2 out of 5 Falafels and for service I give a 3 out of 5 Falafels

Hits: 
- Organic
- Healthy
- Nice seating


Misses:
- expensive and not worth it
- There was a HAIR in supersizethathshi's meal 

 

On the other hand I went to Sandwhich factory again today and IT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD, that I forgot to take a picture of it again.   Nevertheless the experience was yet again delightful, this time we ate there and we sat  outside of course. I have nothing to complain about except I asked for a cup of water with my meal, something simple but it was gross... really gross. Either I ate over the cup of water and got crumbs in it or there just happened to be  oily crumbs. Anyway The sandwich was more than good something you really cannot, NOT eat the whole thing. In addition the people are very friendly and accommodating.

Definitely a 5 out of 5... yes its only a sandwich and salad place, but when you have eaten your most favorite sandwich in the WHOLE IN TIRE WORLD>>> you will/ would also give it a pristine ranking. 

Hits:
- Clean
- Fresh
- Good Service
- Cheap
-Yummy as FUCK
- Best Fucking sandwich I have ever eaten EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (not to mention guys these sandwiches are HUGE ... will take a picture next time :)
- Fresh Juices


Misses:
Skanky Tap Water


Over and Out
VeggieBANDIT