Voici venir les Français! Raanana welcomes new French immigrants

Thanks to the recent influx of French Olim to Raanana we are slowly being introduced to some of the great things about French culture. If you take a walk up Ahuza these days you'll notice that businesses are starting to spring up which cater to the French tastes. Between Rambam Street and Shwartz you can find two  fromageries, selling a wide selection of cheeses from around the world. there is one store on each side of the street, one close to Kippa Adama and the other near Coffee and Friends. I look forward to more French delicacies as we are expecting even more French immigrants in 2014.

Where to find organic products in Raanana

There are a suprising amount of organic stores in Raanana, in fact you won't have any difficulty finding the products you are looking for from fruit and veg to cleaning products you can find organic and natural preoducts at one of the following stores:

• Bio Center for Organic Food


• Nitzat HaDuvdevan


• Supersal Deal - Supersal Green


• Mega - Eden Teva

To read more details about these stores and get their addresses and website addresses read this article:
Where to find organic food in Raanana.

Where to buy fresh fish in Raanana?

Looking for fresh fish of all varieties try the small hole in the wall store - Super Fish - or - Super Dag - on Motskin street. Enter Motskin from Ahuza and soon you will see a row of stores on your right. There is this fresh fish store which also delivers. Although small people come from far and wide to buy their fish here.

Where to get something engraved in Raanana?

After searching high and low for somewhere in Raanana to get a special lock engraved for my husband's birthday I found that at "Matanot L'Gever" - "Gifts for Men" not only engraves items they sell but also any item you can to bring in to them. They charge 15 shekels a word/symbol and it can be done within the hour depending on how busy they are. You can find Matanot L'Gever on the corner of Ahuza Street and Bar Ilan Street, next to the men's clothing store. The entrance is from 124 Ahuza.

Matana L'Gever
124 Ahuza Street
Raanana
Tel: 09-7603 633

Where to get a sewing machine fixed in Raanana

Finding where to get a sewing machine fixed is one of those annoying things to have to find but here is the answer! Jock Kahn is a South African expat living in Raanana, he is a professional as far as sewing machines are concerned and very knowledgable in his field. Jock fixes all makes of sewing machines and also restores and sells second hand machines for extremely reasonable prices. Jock also accepts trade-ins and offers free advice and help in person or over the phone about your sewing machine problems. Being an ex-South African you will have no problem with the language as he speaks English. To get your sweing machine fixed you won't have to go far either, Jock works from home on Moshe Dyan Street which is off Ahuza Street a little past Merkaz Golan.
Jock Kahn
Repairs - all makes and models
Sales-new and used sewing machines
Trade-in's accepted
Free advice and help
Address: 44 Moshe Dyan Street, Aprtment 2, Raanana
Phone: 052-4672113 or 09-7741568

The Best Burgers in Raanana!

If you haven't discovered this place yet then run don't walk - the absolute best hamburger in Raanana is at BurgersBar. If you haven't been there yet then it is probably because it is not in the center of town, although it is on Ahuza. All the BurgerBar hamburgers are 100% beef and they really look like the homemade ones people used to make. There are a variety of sauces and trimmings to add to your huge burger bun. You can also try chicken salad, portobello mushroom burger, chicken nuggets, a selection of salads and french fries. If you like burgers this is the place to go. There is a deal on a burger, chips (french fries) and a drink for under 50 shekels.
You can find BurgersBAr on the corner of Ahuza Street and Hayoval, this is close to Merkaz Golan.

Where to buy spices in Raanana?

For starters you can get herbs and spices in Raanana supermarkets - Supersal, Mega, Yanot Bitan etc. Perhaps of all the supermarkets Mega in the industrial area has the largest selection and the spices are in their organic section and sold by weight not in pre-packed bags.

Apart from the local supermarket there are two spice stores I can recommend, both are run by old Yemeni men and contain a wide variety of spices. You can get Indian, Yemeni, Moroccan and European spices and other dry products in both these stores. They also sell beans, ginger, sugar rock sweets, dried fruits, pasta and some nuts. The spices are sold by weight from sacks or jars.

Neither of these stores is better than the other but the location and personalities of the owners may make you prefer one or the other. The spice store owners are real characters!

Sarum Spice Store

On Ahuza street on the side of Yad Lebanim on the block between Jabotinski and Brandes Streets. As seen in this photo.

Yeffet Spice Store

In the Yemeni neighborhood of Rasko . The entrance to Rasko is on Witzman Street almost opposite Karen Hayasod and next to the nursery.

Where to have alterations done to clothes in Raanana?

Although there are several excellent tailors in Raanana who work out of their homes as a new comer to Raanana you may have trouble finding one. Luckily there is a efficient and proficient tailor that does all kinds of alterations both big and small in Raananim Mall. If you go to the food court in the mall and head towards the Tokyo Park amusement arcade you will see stairs leading up to an exit. Go up the stairs and on your right you will see the tailor's store. Prices are reasonable and they work fast. They handle anything from a hem to curtains. I've had them mend a large cigarette burn in a prominent place on a pair of jeans and the job was excellent.

Where to get your shoes re-heeled in Raanana?

There is a real small hole in the wall cobbler opposite the entrance to the Giron Center in Jabotinski Street. The cobbler is at one end of a passage which starts on Ahuza Street and ends in a little lane on Jabotinski. The store also sells shoe laces and other strange cobbler things I can't identify!

Raanana cheap family clothing stores

Where to buy cheap clothes for the whole family. When you have a lot of kids or kids that ruin their clothes within weeks of buying them then there is no point spending loads of money on expensive clothes. Instead buy you family's clothes at one of the less expensive clothing stores in Raanana. These stores also print up the school T-shirts, and some give discounts to large families. You can also find modest clothing, tsitsiot, kippot and shoes at some of these stores. These are not Outlet stores just inexpensive no name brand stores. Check out the list of low cost family clothing stores in Raanana by clicking on the link below:

Low Cost Family Clothing Stores in Raanana