Bitter Shamouti set
Long shreds of Jaffa peel suspended in a bright gel. Cooked in small copper pans so the fruit stays luminous rather than brown.
Yefet Street
Cold-press atelier
Jaffa / Tel Aviv-Yafo · est. 2014
The orange, pressed into memory.
We are not a café and not a kitchen service. We are a citrus atelier: fruit from six grove plots, juice through a restored iron press, peel cooked in copper until it holds the light.
Shamouti · Jaffa’s classic export orange
Valencia · late juice, clean acidity
Bergamot · perfume of the winter peel
Clementine · thin skin, honeyed segments
Etrog · citron of the harvest festival
Blood orange · pigment from cool nights
Pomelo · thick pith for candied rafts
Meyer lemon · floral, low-bitter cordial
Shamouti · Jaffa’s classic export orange
Valencia · late juice, clean acidity
Bergamot · perfume of the winter peel
Clementine · thin skin, honeyed segments
Etrog · citron of the harvest festival
Blood orange · pigment from cool nights
Pomelo · thick pith for candied rafts
Meyer lemon · floral, low-bitter cordial
What we make
Marmalade, cordial, and peel — not plates, not pavement food.
Every jar is dated to a plot and a press run. We bottle what the trees give that week, then stop when the copper pans are empty.
Cold-press cordial
Juice drawn through the iron press, then married with peel oil and a light sugar syrup. Meant for water, soda, or a winter punch bowl — never as a bar programme.
Candied rafts
Pith-on strips simmered until translucent, rolled in raw sugar, packed in waxed bags. The old port gift, rebuilt for a modern pantry.
01
Pick
We walk six grove plots on the Jaffa fringe and inland Sharon. Fruit is clipped, not pulled, and sorted by peel thickness before it ever sees the press.
02
Press
A restored iron citrus press in the Yefet Street atelier takes the juice. Peel is reserved, zest is planed, and bitter pith is kept or discarded by recipe — never by habit.
03
Pot
Forty-two copper pans, numbered with wax pencil. Each batch is logged: plot, variety, sugar, set time. Jars cool on cedar racks facing the alley light.
2014Founded on Yefet Street
6Grove plots in rotation
42Copper pans on the line
11,000Jars sealed each year
Plot log
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The atelier
A press house on the old market street, not a dining room.
18 Yefet Street sits between Jaffa’s stone lanes and the sea wind. Visitors come to collect grove boxes, taste a spoon of the week’s set, and leave with cordials packed in tissue. We keep a tasting counter. We do not serve meals.
The Shamouti was once packed in wooden crates for steamships. We still stencil those crates — then fill them with jars instead of loose fruit.
Hours follow the fruit, not the nightlife: Sunday to Thursday 09:00–18:00, Friday 09:00–14:00, Saturday closed. Wholesale enquiries are answered from the same desk as private orders.
Read the origin story
Collect or enquire
Take a grove box home, or send a plot list to your pantry.
Private collections from the atelier, seasonal subscriptions of marmalade and cordial, and small wholesale for specialist grocers.
Write to the press