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Lonely Planet
Recycling old walls isn’t a new concept, and that’s abundantly clear at the Efendi Hotel, where two Ottoman palaces built on the foundational remains of Byzantine buildings have been re-envisioned as a 21st-century boutique hotel.
Time Out
Some of the swankiest bars can be found smack in the hotel where you are laying that pretty little head of yours.
Chasing Lenscapes
Let’s start from one of the most well-known luxury hotels in Israel – The Efendi Hotel. This is another project of Uri Jeremias from Uri Buri restaurant. Uri bought two old decaying buildings in 2001 and decided to renovate them and turn them into one of the best boutique hotels in Israel.
SUITCASE Magazine
I defy even the most hardened of hearts not to burst with wonderment as Akko spills into view from the train ferrying arrivals along the coastline. Turquoise domes and copper minarets rise from behind the storied walls of the Old City, while orderly rows of palms line up against the cerulean horizon.
Rest.co.il
יותר משלושה עשורים עברו מאז פתח אורי ירמיאס את אחת המסעדות המוכרות והיציבות בישראל. הלכנו לפצח את הסוד של המסעדן הוותיק, לטייל איתו בשוק הסמוך ולטעום את מנות הדגל שמזוהות עם מוסד הדגים הייחודי. היה מרתק.
Amuse
In the thriving, modern marvel that is the ancient port of Acre, I learn from Uri Jeremias Buri, fish cook extraordinaire, Byzantine expert, and owner of the Ottoman-era Efendi Hotel, that mujaddara has been enjoyed here since the 13th century.
Jerusalem Post
Close your eyes and imagine you are an effendi or a pasha – a lord living in a palace in the mid 19th century. Your large salon, windows from floor to ceiling, overlooks the ocean and you are being fed sweetmeats and other delicacies cooked up by the city’s most famous chef.
FERRER
Chef Jerome Ferrer describes the Efendi Hotel as "one of the best hotels he experienced in his life," and Uri Buri as a "spectacular culinary destination". He highglights his "deep amiration for the philosophy and cooking skills of Uri".
The Malibu Times
Before plunging into Tel Aviv’s whirling social scene, I wanted to get some Galilee green and reward myself for not getting lost with a meal at one of the world’s best seafood restaurants, Uri Buri.
Culture Trip
In December 2015, the boutique hotel Efendi launched a seminar-style touring program of the Old City of Acre and of the nearby towns in the Western Galilee.
Departures
Set in the ancient northern town of Acre, an hour's drive from Tel Aviv, and crafted from a pair of Ottoman-era palaces, the 12-suite Efendi (owned by chef Uri Jeremias) is layered in history and nobility - it's among the most complex private restoiration projects ever overseen by Israel's ultra-strict Antiquities Authority.
Time Out Israel
Sometimes, what you really need is to escape the daily grind, get out of town, lay low for a day or two, ans soak in some extra special couple time. .Luckily, Israel has romantic places to stay in spades. Here are .five spots to make you feel extra lovey dovey,one of them is Boutique hotel efendi akko
The Media Line
The Galilee is a locavore’s paradise, a lush, green region flanked by the Mediterranean Sea and basalt hills in which, according to Abbie Rosner, the author of Breaking Bread in Galilee, until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the local population “farmed pretty much exactly the way it was described in the Bible.”
Forbes
For the last twenty years Acre – Israel's ancient harbor town on the northern tip of the Haifa littoral – has been most fortunate to have a culinary bastion grown within it under the generous hand of Chef Uri Jerimias
הארץ
עד לא מזמן לוו נסיעות לעכו בתהייה "מה איבדתם שם"? ובהמלצה לאכול חומוס אצל סעיד. עכו היתה בירת הממלכה הצלבנית ויעד אטרקטיבי לאורך ההיסטוריה, נכבשה, ננטשה ושוב אוכלסה, אבל עם הקמת המדינה היא הפכה ללא יותר מעיירת פיתוח עם עיר עתיקה חצי אטרקטיבית ופסטיבל לתיאטרון אחר שמביא קהל חוץ פעם בשנה. כך עברו שנים ועכו עמדה בצד, מביטה איך חיפה מתרוממת ומתפתחת בעוד היא נשארת הגרסה הצפונית והחיוורת של יפו.
Ynet
העיר העתיקה של עכו מציעה שורה של מקומות אוכל חדשים וייחודיים שיגרמו לכם ללקק את האצבעות - וממש לא מדובר רק בחומוס, צ'יפס או דגים.
Condé Nast Traveler
The specs: A pair of nineteenth-century homes in the middle of an Arab village—and ancient port town—on the Mediterranean, a two-hour drive from Tel Aviv. Along with 12 guest rooms, the hotel has a hammam (built by the original Turkish owners), a wine cellar and occasional restaurant, and a rooftop sundeck.
ידיעות אחרונות , מסלול
Ynet
במשך שבועות ארוכים עסקתם בבידור הצאצאים. עכשיו הם סוף סוף חוזרים למוסדות החינוך - וזה הזמן לבילוי מבוגרים בלבד. קבלו כמה רעיונות
CNN
Leone Lakhani travels to the Israeli city of Acre, one of the best preserved and oldest settlements in the Middle East.
ביג טיים
מלון האפנדי של המסעדן אורי ירמיאס נבחר לרשימת עשרת בתי המלון והצימרים המםנקים בארץ.
Forbes
הגל החדש בענף הנופש הישראלי מאופיין במלונות קטנים אך מעוצבים בקפידה, שמפנקים בלי הפסקה ומשלבים לרוב חדשנות עם היסטוריה ונוף עם אווירה. לקראת יום האהבה, פורבס מדרג: 10 הסוויטות היוקרתיות ביותר במלונות הבוטיק בישראל
N' A Perfect World
Israel is a new nation, built on very ancient land that so many people in this world lay claim to as their own, their history. There are some newer cities like Tel Aviv, where the architecture dates to the 20th century and others like it’s neighbor Jaffa, an ancient port city that leaves your mind reeling when you think of the people that have walked these streets for centuries. An intrinsic part of visiting Israel is seeing this duality.
ARTE
Voyage savoureux en Israël, formidable creuset de cultures gastronomiques. À Akko, l’ancien Saint-Jean-d’Acre, Uri Buri excelle dans la préparation des poissons. Quarante kilomètres plus au nord, Erez Komarovsky, père de la "nouvelle cuisine" en Israël, a su intégrer des saveurs venues de France, du Japon et de Californie. On découvre aussi le secret d’une bonne pita.
Bon Appétit
One pomegranate-braised lamb shoulder at a time, Zahav chef Michael Solomonov is putting modern Israeli cooking on the map in Philadelphia (and America). So when he travels to Israel a couple times a year, he does so with food squarely on the mind. This takes him to Acre, a coastal city 90 minutes north of Tel Aviv, where he pays his respects to Uri Jeremias: a legendary fisherman, bon vivant, and owner of the decidedly non-kosher seafood restaurant Uri Buri.
Departures
In Acre, Israel, chef Jeremias cooks quite possibly the country's best seafood.
הארץ
מחומוס לפתוח איתו את היום, דרך המבורגרים ספרדיים לצהריים, דגים טריים, שקיעות ויין: 24 שעות קולינריות בעכו דווקא עכשיו
HuffPost
"There is no such thing as Israeli cuisine," said Chef Roy Sofer at the hip Italian Bindela Restaurant in Tel Aviv. Over the next ten days, every person I spoke to in Israel gave me a similar answer. Just like the U.S., Israel is a melting pot of cultures and cuisines. Everyone here is from someplace else, and they have brought along traditional ingredients, spices and cooking methods that have become part of the new Israeli gastronomy.
The Media Line
Acre – Israel, and much of the wider Levant, is saturated in history. Kick some dust away and you could find yourself standing on ancient cobblestones, or discovering contemporary truisms turned upside-down.
Recommend
Efendi Hotel and Pomegranate Travel are offering new tours in Israel by foot and bike, respectively, where guests can explore the sacred sites and nature surrounding the Holy Land.
The New York Times
Acre is a 4,000-year-old port city in northern Israel that most travelers to the country don’t visit, and to help change that, Uri Buri, the owner of the Efendi Hotel there, has created a four-day culturally focused trip.
DuJour
One hour and 20 minutes north of Tel Aviv, in the ancient Mediterranean port town of Acre, chef Uri Jeremias leads me into the tiny kitchen tucked in the back of the Ottoman-era stone building that has housed his restaurant, Uri Buri, since 1989.