Mezzo: A Park Pavilion Where Holon's New Quarter Eats Italian

The scent reaches you before the building does, a sweet smoke of caramelized onion and 72 hour dough drifting across the lawn. Children chase one another past a row of fountains, the towers of Shdarat HaMigdalim rise behind a wall of olive trees, and at the heart of it all sits a low pavilion clad in glossy white panels, all glass and light. Inside, a polenta cream lands on the table, mushrooms pearled in butter on top, parmesan shaved across at the last second. This is Mezzo on a Thursday afternoon in Holon's youngest quarter, an Italian dairy room that has decided, with full Badatz Beit Yosef Mehadrin conviction, that neighborhood dining can be both casual and serious.

Mezzo opened the Holon location two years ago as a non kosher trattoria. In February 2026 the operators flipped the kitchen Mehadrin, becoming the first restaurant in the small Mezzo group to carry certification at all. The result is a rare thing in central Israel: a kosher dairy room with the relaxed rhythm of a Tel Aviv park cafe and the technique of a chef who actually trained as a pizzaiolo in Naples.