Hotel Montefiore Hotel

Tel Aviv, Israel

As one of the city’s inaugural boutique pads – opened in 2008 – Montefiore may be small in size, but it has bundles of character. Built in 1922, the intimate 12- room property – found snaking off Rothschild Boulevard in the Lev Halr neighbourhood – was once a private residence and that feeling of home has been nurtured as part of the transformation to its current being. A sense of timelessness pervades here, from the White City facade – all peachy hues and curvaceous architectural contrast – to the pseudo-Parisian dark-wood and leather brasserie-style interior on the ground floor. Rooms feature balconies, floor-to-ceiling libraries, modish monochrome colourways and enviable mid-century furniture – not to mention the sink-on-in beds. Hang out in the palm-flanked Vietnamese-fusion restaurant, the jazz-filled lobby bar or the suntrap terrace for a snapshot of local life: it’s an institution for the city’s creative ‘it’ crowd.

Doubles from £262. 00 972 3 564 6100, hotelmontefiore.co.il

Words by Blossom Green.

This review was taken from the December 2020 issue of Food and Travel.

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