Israeli Restaurant Near Me in Williamsburg: K'Far's All-Day Jerusalem Bagel Table

K'Far Brooklyn starts pouring coffee at 8 am inside the lobby of The Hoxton at 97 Wythe Avenue, between North 9th and North 10th Streets in Williamsburg, and it keeps the same room busy until dinner service winds down after 10 pm. Michael Solomonov opened it in November 2022 as an all-day Israeli cafe. If you are hunting for an israeli restaurant near me that works for a 9 am bagel as well as a 7 pm hummus plate, this is the one.

The name means village in Hebrew, and it points straight at Kfar Saba, the town outside Tel Aviv where Solomonov grew up and took his first kitchen job, working in a bakery. That job explains the pastry case by the door. Solomonov runs the place with business partner Steve Cook under their CookNSolo banner, together with Chicago's Boka Restaurant Group, and the sweet side of the menu belongs to pastry chef Katreena Kanney.

Solomonov arrived with a long resume from Philadelphia. His restaurant Zahav earned him the James Beard award for Best Chef Mid-Atlantic in 2011 and Outstanding Chef in 2017, and Zahav itself won Outstanding Restaurant in 2019. K'Far was the second piece of his Brooklyn project. Laser Wolf, his skewer house, sits on the hotel roof, and Resy's 2022 opening story framed the lobby cafe as the daytime counterpoint to that rooftop.

Breakfast runs from 8 to 11 am on weekdays and from 8 to 10 am on Saturday and Sunday, before weekend brunch takes over at 10. Order the Jerusalem Bagel with Cream Cheese Trio for $14. The bagel is long, oval and crusted in sesame, and it comes with three spreads: sumac, za'atar, and pistachio with honey. Tear it apart by hand and drag each piece through all three.

If you want something hot, the Egg and Cheese Jerusalem Bagel costs $17 and stacks egg with Cooper Sharp cheese, za'atar and schug, the green Yemenite chili paste that gives it a slow burn. The Shakshuka is $22, eggs baked into a spiced tomato sauce. Add a Pistachio Sticky Bun for $9 to split across the table, since it is the pastry the cafe leads with on its breakfast menu, ahead of the bagels.

Weekday lunch runs from 11 am to 5 pm, and a small menu covers the gap between 3 and 5. On Saturday and Sunday, brunch runs from 10 am to 3 pm and is the busiest window of the week. Dinner starts at 5 pm every day. The lights drop, the cocktail list gets more attention, and the coffee crowd gives way to couples and small groups who booked ahead on Resy.

At dinner, start with the Hummus with Baharat Beef for $20. Baharat is the warm Israeli spice blend of allspice, cinnamon and black pepper, and here it seasons ground beef spooned over the hummus. The Grilled Artichoke, also $20, comes with green tehina and sumac onions and is the vegetable plate worth fighting over. The Chicken Schnitzel is $32, fried in a shredded kataifi crust with potato salad and a tehina ranch for dipping.

Here is the honest skip. Time Out gave K'Far four stars in April 2023 but called the chocolate kanafeh only passable, and at $12 it is easy to pass on. Spend the dessert money on the Toasted Sesame Sundae for $15 instead. Sesame runs through Israeli sweets from halva to tahini cookies, and this sundae is where K'Far's pastry team puts that flavor at the end of dinner.

The dining room sits under a retractable glass atrium roof, so morning light floods the coral and brown banquettes and the hanging plants. A patio out back stays open year-round. The Infatuation, which scored K'Far 8.0 in March 2023, noted the laptop crowd: freelancers and hotel guests camp out with a coffee and a pastry, and the review warned there are never enough outlets for all of them.

Mornings bring that laptop crowd plus hotel guests coming down from their rooms upstairs. By evening the chefs counter is the seat to ask for, since it puts you in front of the cooks rather than the lobby traffic. The lobby lounge next to the dining room serves a full bar from 8 am, so a cocktail with a late breakfast is on the table if you want one.

Reservations go through Resy, where the listing says walk-in guests are welcome, and on a recent Friday it showed slots from 8 am until 9:45 pm across the main dining room and the chefs counter. Weekend brunch is the window where a booking matters most, so lock in a table if you are set on 11 am on a Saturday. If the host quotes more than 30 minutes, take a coffee from the to-go counter and wait on the patio rather than in the lobby.

There is free wifi, which is why the room doubles as a workspace on weekday mornings. Be considerate at peak lunch hours and save long laptop sessions for the slower stretch after 2 pm. The to-go counter sells coffee and pastries for people who only want a sticky bun on the walk to the subway, and it skips the dining room wait entirely.

The nearest subway is the L train at Bedford Avenue, with an entrance on the corner of North 7th Street, about an eight-minute walk east of the hotel. From Manhattan, Bedford Avenue is the first stop after First Avenue, so a ride from Union Square takes only a few stops. Walk west on North 7th, turn right on Wythe, and the Hoxton entrance is two blocks up.

After eating, walk west to Marsha P. Johnson State Park at 90 Kent Avenue, entered at Kent and North 8th Street, for a skyline view across the river toward Midtown. Brooklyn Bowl, at 61 Wythe Avenue a few blocks south, is the place to keep the night going with a lane, a drink and live music. Both sit within ten minutes of the Hoxton lobby on foot.

Address: K'Far Brooklyn, 97 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11249, inside The Hoxton, Williamsburg. Breakfast weekdays 8 to 11 am, weekends 8 to 10 am; weekday lunch 11 am to 5 pm; weekend brunch 10 am to 3 pm; dinner daily from 5 pm. Book on Resy or walk in. The menu is not kosher, and it serves on Saturdays.

For a rooftop dinner on the same visit, Laser Wolf Brooklyn sits upstairs on the Hoxton roof and books on Resy. Ask Karpo in the Karpo APP for a Williamsburg plan that pairs a K'Far breakfast with a waterfront walk, or for the best time to land a weekend brunch table without a long wait.