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| Herbert Samuel – Kosher Chef Restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton Herzliya |
Herbert Samuel is situated
inside the elegant Ritz-Carlton. The décor includes the calm with shades of blue
and white and a fancy lighted wine display!
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| Herbert Samuel - entrance |
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| Herbert Samuel - day |
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| Herbert Samuel - evening |
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| Herbert Samuel - evening |
The restaurant became
famous from the days it was the kosher restaurant of Chef Yonatan Roshfeld and
is now led by chef Mor Cohen who keeps the original spirit of the restaurant
but renews and refreshes the menu each season. The restaurant has an open
kitchen and you can see the chef in action, which is nice!
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| Herbert Samuel - open kitchen |
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| Herbert Samuel - Chef Mor Cohen |
A smiley waitress greeted
us upon arrival, she attended us during dinner and was very efficient and knowledgeable
about the menu and wines. The menu includes vegetables, fish, beef and lamb.
Chef Mor Cohen told me about his struggle to obtain quality kosher ingredients
and the efforts to achieve exact textures under the kosher limitations. I can
give a little spoiler already and say that he does a good job at it, and I
could feel the juiciness of the kosher meat and cream-like gnocchi texture.
Starters
After we ordered we were
served artisan
breads, plate of hot peppers, smoked eggplant Tahini, which were all good, the
hot pepper was very spicy!
With dinner we drank Israeli wine.
Special Cuvee 2014 Trio Winery (NIS 68) – a blend
of Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Petit Verdot and Merlot from the Galilee and Judean
mountains, aged 12 months in oak barrels. A very rich and round wine that
worked well with the beef we had!
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| Bread and dips |
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| Tahini |
For a starter we ordered a small sized Tomato
Salad “Herbert Samuel” (38/52). This is the famous salad of chef Roshfeld
and it is simple and excellent! Many types of tomatoes – fresh and roasted, small
radish, red onions, scallions, boiled egg crumbs and many fresh herbs such as
basil, oregano, etc. Very yummy!
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| Herbert Samuel Tomato Salad |
Pastas
Before the main course, we ordered two small
portions of pasta: gnocchi and cannelloni and they were delicious!
Potato Gnocchi –
forest mushrooms, hazelnut and truffle butter, snow peas (48/88). A really good
texture, creamy and the hazelnut very prominent (I did not feel the truffle
much) and crunchy snow peas.
Beef Cannelloni – beef
ragu, smoky tomato sauce, pan grattato (52/92). This pasta is so good! Fresh pasta,
soft meat inside and balanced spicy sauce – delicious!
Main Course
Beef Chateau – 500 gr. Fillet of beef, marrow
with garlic and parsley, ratte potatoes (NIS 360). Although the beef is kosher
and soaked in salt during the process, it stayed juicy and was prepared medium
to order. The potatoes were crunchy outside and soft inside and the bone marrow
was huge and well seasoned! The sauce on the meet was tasty and had demi-glace sauce there was also
mustard sauce. A really good dish that we enjoyed in each bite and hardly
finished!
Desserts
We ordered the chocolate bar for dessert, and
the chef sent us also the “Har Bracha” dessert.
Valrhona chocolate bar –
crunchy layer, chocolate creameux, Hazelnut ice cream & salted caramel (NIS
52). Rich and full of chocolate, we loved it! And the ice cream was wonderful,
actually it tasted like espresso!
“Har Braha” – tahini sorbet, moist date cake, sesame
tuille. This is a local-style dessert but nothing that I tasted before – not too
sweet (which faded a bit compared to the chocolate dessert) and flavorsome.
In summary, the restaurant is pricey, but the
food is delicious and the service impeccable! We enjoyed the atmosphere and the
food greatly and I highly recommend it! If you can’t spend much on dinner,
check the lunch deals, there are affordable offers in the menu.
Information
Herbert Samuel,
Ritz-Carlton Herzliya, Kosher
Disclosure: I was a guest of the restaurant
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