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• Healthy, Delicious, and Special

My wife loves this place, I enjoy it, but not to the same degree. The difference between us is I prefer places which have fake meats and she loves healthy tasty vegan/vegetarian food where you can taste the beans/sprouts/etc which aren't trying to duplicate meat recipes. Nagila is such a restaurant. It offers unique flavors and entrees, which taste good, fresh, and healthy. We've tried most of the menu here. My favorite is Savta Fania's meatballs which comes in a flavorful okra-tomato sauce. I also like the Yum-burger, which is a vegan burger. It comes on a roll with good fixings and a pesto sauce. If you;re looking for something that taste like a burger, than the YumBurger isn;t for you. It is rather beany/grainy and falls apart pretty easily, but it tastes delicious and is a healthy portioned big burger. My wife really likes the french cheese toast, and is a fan of the Nagila Salad which is REALLY good. The only food we found disappointing was the coconut curry stew, which was really lacking flavor for a curry, and the broccoli was either overcooked or not fresh. Overall, the place is solid, great for families, friends, dates, or work meetings. The location is great on a quiet street a few blocks away from the center of the shuk. It has a really nice atmosphere, with outdoor tables which are private, it has tables indoors and even has two little booth areas where you can have your own mini room looking out the window. Its unique and utterly charming. While I wish they had a bigger menu with more options, or a Special of the Day, the food is quality. Good portions, affordable prices, and everything tastes fresh and home made, its the kind of places where you feel more invigorated after eating there and your body thanks you. The service is also always warm, attentive, and genuinely caring. It feels like a small family run restaurant. In Jerusalem there are three types of Veg restaurants: "The Kosher dairy places" (which happen to have some vege stuff like pasta/pizza), "fake meat places", and a few healthy vegetarian restaurants, which have vegan options and don't translate wholesome vegetarian food as pasta/pizza. Personally, I like the fake meat places. That being said in terms of quality, price, and atmosphere, this place really outdoes its longstanding Jerusalem mainstay competitors as the top wholesome vegetarian restaurant in the capital.