Published: 3 January 2020
Last updated: 5 March 2024
SUNDAY BRUNCH AT BOKER TOV, the cafe at JCC Warsaw, is quite a scene. Every table in the sunlit space is packed elbow-to-elbow with the city’s young and fashionable. Coffee flows, conversations bubble and overlap, and for 25 zlotys (about A$10), a spread of porridge with apple compote, roasted eggplant and squash with harissa, shakshuka, challah pudding, and pickled-onion-topped potato salad is continuously refreshed.
Many, if not most, of Boker Tov’s patrons are not Jewish, but they are there to experience Jewish culture and cuisine in a city where neither has flourished in many decades.
About a 1.5km away, a restaurant called Tel Aviv Urban Food draws large and adoring crowds. Run by entrepreneur and local food celebrity Malka Kafka, Tel Aviv offers vegan Middle Eastern-inspired street fare.
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Photo: Sunday brunch at Boker Tov cafe, at JCC Warsaw (Leah Koenig)
