Most dishes are cooked over charcoal and embers, a nod to ancestral cooking in Jerusalem, and include a fluffy Challah-like bread made with olive oil from east Jerusalem and sea salt, cold and hot mezze (a highlight: the grilled courgette with cinnamon labneh), and mains such as the vegetarian “chicken liver”. Talk about a menu that's so bright and flavorful! The name means "ceremony" in Hebrew so you better believe the food is both a celebration of food and the best introduction to vegetarian cooking in the city for even the most carnivorous of diners. But the real reason to go is for the menu, which is entirely vegetarian. For one, there are two ways to enter-from the street or via the calm, cobblestone-covered courtyard for Klay, the posh fitness club that the restaurant is associated with. Tekés is perhaps the most unique of the restaurants from Chef Assaf Granit and his team. On the way to the elevator, pay attention to the photographs and newspaper clippings of all the world-renowned personalities, from JFK to Angelina Jolie, who have dined at the restaurant. (If meat doesn't inspire you, everything from fish to plant-based dishes are balanced and sublime.) With 300,000 bottles in the wine cave and 15,000 different references, this is absolutely the destination for wine lovers. If you're into duck, that's a longstanding draw for diners since the late 1800. Or if surprises aren't your thing, opt for the several course tasting menu which includes signature dishes from the restaurant's long history that have been updated by the chef Yannick Franques, a Meilleur Ouvrier de France who took over the kitchen three years ago, in addition to the chef's own recipes. If ever there was a place to leave your meal up to the chef, it's at La Tour d'Argent. This Seine-facing beacon of French dining was built as an inn in the 16th century, and it wasn't until the 19th century that it became the restaurant as we know it today.
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