Assaf Granit Chooses Mutra, the World’s First Michelin-Starred Kosher Restaurant, for His First U.S. Dinner

Assaf Granit, the Jerusalem-born chef behind Machneyuda and the Michelin-starred Shabour in Paris, will cook his first-ever dinner in the United States at Mutra in North Miami this November. Over three nights — November 4, 5 and 7, 2026 — Granit joins Mutra chef Raz Shabtai for a pair of kosher Jerusalem tasting menus at 2188 NE 123rd Street.

The address matters. In May 2026, Mutra became the first kosher restaurant ever awarded a MICHELIN Star, a distinction the guide itself confirmed when it named the restaurant to its Florida selection less than a year and a half after Shabtai opened the doors in February 2025. The Granit dinners launch a new collaboration series in which award-winning chefs are invited to build a kosher tasting menu alongside Shabtai, with top South Florida chefs slated to follow from late November through January.

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Mutra

For Granit, the trip is a long time coming. He opened Machneyuda with Uri Navon and Yossi Elad beside Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market in 2009, then took its raucous, market-driven energy abroad — first to London, where The Palomar and Coal Office made Israeli cooking a West End and King’s Cross obsession, then to Paris. Shabour, his 17th-century-townhouse counter in the 2nd arrondissement, earned its first MICHELIN Star in 2021 and retained it in the 2026 France guide for a sixth consecutive year. Today his MachneYuda Group spans Jerusalem, London, Paris, Berlin and St. Barth.

Shabtai is a natural host. Raised in Jerusalem, he learned to cook trailing his grandmother — Mutra’s namesake — through the stalls of the same Mahane Yehuda market, then worked his way from dishwasher to the line at restaurants including Alenbi, HaBasta and Raphael in Israel and New York before a private-chef role brought him to Miami. He calls what he cooks Jerusalem cuisine rather than Middle Eastern or Israeli, and the kitchen is, in the restaurant’s own words, “kosher to the bone.”

Photo Credit: N.A. Photography / Courtesy of Mutra

That is the quiet twist of the series. None of Granit’s restaurants are kosher, so these menus will be translated into Mutra’s strictly kosher kitchen — no shellfish, no mixing meat and dairy — for the first time on American soil. Two Jerusalem kids from the same market, cooking their grandmothers’ city under the rules one of them has kept for more than a decade, is about as tidy a story as a collaboration dinner gets.

The first two nights belong to the Jerusalem Night Market, a restaurant-wide, Jerusalem-style dinner party on Wednesday, November 4, and Thursday, November 5. The eight-course tasting menu runs $200 a guest at tables and $250 at the bar, according to Mutra’s reservation page; the release promises a bottle of wine per couple, while the booking site notes beverages are extra unless a wine pairing is added [VERIFY]. Seatings run from 6 p.m. until late evening.

Photo Credit: N.A. Photography / Courtesy of Mutra

Saturday, November 7, is the collector’s ticket. Jerusalem, Plate by Plate is a 12-course chef’s counter experience for just 16 guests, with wine and spirits pairings, moving through Jerusalem neighborhood by neighborhood, course by course. There are two seatings, at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. [VERIFY], and seats start at $1,500 [VERIFY per person]. Mutra is normally closed on Fridays and Saturdays, which makes a Saturday-night seating rare in itself.

Tickets are sold in advance, paid in full and non-refundable, and the counter is small enough that it will not last long. Miami already has a growing roster of serious kosher tables, from Olivia Ostrow’s French-leaning Maison Ostrow to the dining rooms reshaping nearby Bal Harbour’s restaurant scene, but none with a MICHELIN Star or a guest list like this one.

The Jerusalem Night Market takes place November 4 and 5, and Jerusalem, Plate by Plate on November 7, 2026, at Mutra, 2188 NE 123rd St., North Miami.

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