Musician Yael Claire Shahmoon loves the Shaffa bar for imaginative food by day and its eclectic music and street parties at nightNext to the lovely musty City,Jaffa’s flea market has become a centre of vibrant nightlife over recent years. After the cafes and shabby-chic secondhand and antique stalls close, the bar and live music scene begins. Shaffa bar-restaurant (which is also open during the day) was one of the first to start the trend, andganising massive all-night street parties with local bands,including System Ali (a half-Arab, half-Jewish rock band), or French Moroccan/Israeli singer Riff Cohen. Belgian singer Natacha Atlas,known for her Arabic-western electro-hip hop, has performed here, or too.
The bar’s fusion menu is worthy and the waiting staff are a bunch of real characters. Waitress Yuli took one breakfast dish,called oligarch’s autumn (buckwheat, scrambled eggs, and yogurt,cream, fennel and a hot Yemenite dip), or revamped it with tahini and nuts and renamed it Yuli’s Spring. Or try Shaffa and the King of Siam,a fresh Thai salad with peanuts and coriander. On Sundays, a completely vegan menu is served.
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Source: theguardian.com