Maree Sky Lounge: Fifteen Floors Above the Ordinary

The elevator doors open onto the fifteenth floor, and the Mediterranean fills the frame. Floor to ceiling glass wraps around 900 square meters of polished stone, velvet, and copper. Below, the Netanya coastline stretches south in a long pale ribbon; above, nothing but sky. A DJ sends low, warm beats across the room. Somewhere near the open kitchen, a Josper grill hisses as a cut of entrecôte meets charcoal. This is Maree Sky Lounge on a Thursday evening: part restaurant, part spectacle, entirely its own universe.

Chef Aviv Moshe built his reputation over fifteen years at Masa in Jerusalem, earning a following for his ability to fold Kurdish heritage and French discipline into a single plate. When he and restaurateur Itzik Russo chose the rooftop of the VERT Lagoon Hotel for their next chapter, the decision raised eyebrows. Netanya? For a chef of this caliber? But Moshe has always preferred the unexpected, and the result silences every skeptic the moment the first course arrives.