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Feel Jerusalem in Lakewood — Inside Yerushalmi, Their Famous Meat-Filled Frenna & Signature Dishes
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Meet Shimon Belznzeeve, the owner, who put his whole heart into crafting every dish. From the signature in-house oven-baked Frenna bread, stuffed with meat and loaded with fresh salads and toppings, to the beautifully presented hummus plates and a full table of authentic Yerushalmi flavors — this is real Israeli food done right. See some of our signature dishes for everyone. Come check us out: 📍 605 East County Line Road, Lakewood, NJ Call us at (732) 730-7552 🛒 Order online: https://order.toasttab.com/online/yerushalmi 🕒 Open every night until 12 AM 🕒 Thursdays until 1 AM
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Guys, you got to check out this store
called Yossi Shalom, located over here
in 605 East County Line in Lakewood, New
Jersey. So, I wasn't in the store for
like a week. The store's only been open
a year. I never had to see it to be here
till my friend Shimon Ben Zev called me
down and told me, "Efraim, you were in
Israel. If you want to feel a little bit
of what Israel has to offer in Lakewood,
come check out the store Yossi Shalom
over here."
So, Shimon, it's a little bit cold.
Let's go inside and let's check out the
store. First of all, wherever you go,
you see the time for the Shalom, Yossi
Shalom. It has to do with the chomer.
That does the pictures of Sukkot
Machaneh Yehudah from Coast to Coast,
from Al Shul. I'm telling you that this
knowledge you just need to know. You
almost feel like you're in Yerushalayim.
That's the goal.
>> So, I feel the screens has to do cuz
they're in Coast to Coast live 24 hours
a day.
Guys, before I show you this delicious
um plates over here, the dishes, I want
to show you which is something which is
the signature from Yossi Shalom. Shimon,
let's go to the back and show us your
meat filled frena. Guys, you got to
check out this
oven over here. Special oven.
See, this just came out and they got to
fill it up with meat.
It's the best, most filling dish you can
ever have, right?
Okay. This is the fresh frena just took
out from the oven.
Now we can choose what you want to put
inside. You can put it inside from
falafel, hummus, and then we're going to
put in the meat, right?
>> Take the hummus.
For the people who like spicy, we have
charif. We have matbucha, homemade
matbucha. fresh bread.
Homemade matbucha, roasted garlic, very
unique stuff that you're not going to
find nowhere else.
Fresh garlic, okay.
Now let's choose
Let's choose which meat to put in.
Let's go with this
one of our best seller. The spicy style
meat.
Very recommended.
>> [singing]
>> Put in a lot. I like that. Of course,
not only because of you.
All the customers. All the customers get
great service, homemade
meat. Now you can add if you want to you
can add hot salami on top. You can add
onions. I think I'll add on top maybe
some onions and hot salami. Let's put it
on top.
>> and hot salami.
Not a problem. Fried onions.
Hot salami.
Wow.
So, so it's a meat. Look at the Guys,
look how full this is.
Cut it to half.
Wrap it.
Nice. Look at this. Look at this.
>> [music]
>> All right. So, the paper.
Ready to roll.
Efraim, let me show you
one of our signature
item in the menu. It's a hummus plate.
Anything in the menu can go in the
hummus plate.
This is how it's going to look like. I
like a meat hummus plate. No problem. We
can give you a spicy meat, sweet meat.
Of course, everything is made in-house.
Everything, the hummus, the falafel, the
tehina. We can put charif over here
and roasted garlic
and
we're going to choose the meat spicy.
I'll also choose a little bit of the of
the chicken also on the other side.
>> choose the Jerusalem mix. Not a problem.
We're going to do half and half. What is
that? It's called the Jerusalem mix?
>> That's Jerusalem mix, liver and chicken.
Liver and chicken?
>> yeah.
>> Wow.
>> Very, very good. One of our most popular
item.
This is how it's going to look like. And
of course, it comes with a frena,
homemade bread frena that we do over
here.
We're going to cut it.
And
Nice. Look at this.
>> This is how it looks like. 48 hours of
work straight to your plate. Efraim, now
let me show you other parts of our menu
which we're going to start with a hummus
falafel. This is laffa. Anything in the
menu can go either in a laffa, in a
pita, in a frena. What's inside of this
>> a wrap. This is baby chicken, baby
one?
chicken laffa. This is pastrami corn
with pita. This is pulled beef pita.
Uh this is Jerusalem mix liver and
chicken platter. This is how it's going
to look like.
>> top of couscous and salad and coleslaw
and rice.
>> rice, whatever you choose. This is a
corn beef and pastrami wrap. Panini'd.
This is our
coated fries, onion rings, sweet potato
fries. Burger. They don't have a burger
>> Burger, they're only have burger
>> at all.
>> wraps. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're in
Lakewood. We in Lakewood. We'll Real
chicken salad, anything in the menu can
go
>> the healthy people,
>> for healthy people.
>> for the healthy people. What's these two
soups over here?
>> This is
meat and bean soup, a little bit spicy.
This is chicken and vegetable soup. This
is kebab platter with salads, of course,
if you choose this.
>> What's on top? A kebab? Oh, it's like a
meat uh uh Kebab, it's ground beef
seasoned with a lot of good Israeli
season. This is a rice three-quarter of
a pita with
ground beef. This is Moroccan beef
cigars, spicy potato pastels. This is
how our friend look like. Wow,
totally meat.
And all the platters come with a friend
on the side, our signature bread. Yeah,
the all the dips. All the dips. All the
sauces, of course, there is Couscous.
Couscous, real couscous with chicken
soup and vegetables on top. This is our
special baguette, go to the panini with
sauce and topping and schnitzel in it.
Wow, you're making me hungry. Every
everything over here we do from our
heart. This is Israeli food with
American service. American service, very
nice. All right, so tell us first of
all, tell us about your
you have you do do also delivery?
>> We do delivery, Uber Eats,
Sauce Toast.
>> Toast, our own delivery.
>> go on these websites and put in your
Shwarma
>> in your Shwarma Lakewood and you're
going to see. You're more than welcome
to follow us on Instagram as well. And
we have our homemade
dips for Shabbos.
>> Oh, where is it? Oh, yeah.
>> is homemade. I guess by Thursday you're
going to have a full fridge.
>> course. We have matbucha, carrot,
hummus, tahini, roasted jalapeno,
coleslaw. Guys, if you want to feel the
real hummus from your shop in Jerusalem,
you got to check out this place.
>> that's the place. You guys just make
sure that you come once, we'll make sure
that you come again. Gevaldig, gevaldig.
All right, and what's your hours? I know
you also have a specialized shishi. Tell
me
>> Yeah, well, shishi there is a great
matzoh ball here until 1:00 a.m.
>> 1:00 a.m. Great cholent,
a lot of
a lot of good food with good energy.
When are you open every night till when?
>> Every night until 12:00 a.m. from 1:00
p.m. to 12:00 a.m. And Thursday from
1:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. at least.
Amazing. And your address is 605 605
East County Line Road. Lakewood, New
Jersey.
>> Lakewood, New Jersey.
>> Your phone number if somebody wants to
call later.
>> 732-730-7552
All right, and any Shabbos special? Any
special right now for my followers? So,
here you think here's the thing,
whoever's going to come from you
going to get the 10% for online
ordering. And we're more than welcome
you guys more than welcome to come. What
should I what should I put in online?
Online
you're going to get a card with a promo
code on it.
>> So you have to come into the store and
then for the next time you're going to
order online to get 10% off.
>> Exactly. Amazing, thank you so much.
>> for you, follower. Thank you so much and
I really appreciate Thank you very much.
>> bringing the Shwarma vibe over here.
Thank you. Thank you very much. I also
wanted to thank you in this opportunity
for all our customers. We didn't
advertise as much. We advertise on our
customers and we have great feedbacks.
People care about this place. It's like
a big family and we you guys are welcome
to join us. Also, we are under the KCL
and our meat is Solomon's and I just
wanted to tell you
>> you're Yoshon.
>> guys everything is Yoshon, of course.
>> And you guys get great great big portion
for very very very friendly pricing.
Gevaldig. You also do catering?
>> do
>> Outside catering also?
>> catering, we do events, we do offices
and corporation. You guys can call our
number and it's going to forward you
straight to my cell phone and we're
going to discuss pricing and whatever
you need. Gevaldig, thank you.