bar founded israel 1992 headquarters israel number of locations 7 as of august 2014 area served israel products hamburgers chicken french fries website www.mikesplacebars.com mike s place hebrew is an israeli chain of sports bars with six bars around the country and one pizzaria located next to the chain s beachfront promenade bar . contents 1 history 2 locations 2.1 mike s place bars 2.2 mike s pizza place 3 kashrut 4 suicide bombing 5 see also 6 references history edit in 1992 michael vigodda a photojournalist opened mike s place in downtown jerusalem . vigodda named the bar after another bar called mike s place located at the carleton university student s center in ottawa ontario . this was in turn named after former canadian prime minister and statesman lester b. mike pearson 1 who won the 1957 nobel peace prize for his role in defusing the suez crisis . in 1995 assaf ganzman an israeli blues musician and vocalist for a band called sobo became an owner of the bar after vigodda returned to canada . 2 locations edit mike s place bars edit mike s place on the beachfront promenade in tel aviv in 1999 the bar moved to jerusalem s russian compound and in 2005 to jaffa road . in 2001 a second branch was opened in tel aviv next to the american embassy on the tel aviv beachfront . the jerusalem branch closed on january 4 2009 when the 19th century building in which it was housed was demolished . 3 in october 2010 mike s place re opened in jerusalem at a new location also on jaffa road . the jerusalem branch the first mike s place franchise is owned and operated by jerusalem architect reuben beiser . as of august 2014 there are 6 branches of mike s place 4 tel aviv promenade tel aviv ramat hahayal tel aviv ha arbaa st. jerusalem herzliya eilat mike s pizza place edit on 12 march 2014 mike s opened their first pizzaria 5 called mike s pizza place in tel aviv next to their beachfront mike s place location . 6 similarly to the mike s place locations mike s pizza place is centered on the main bar . instead of burgers and fries this location offers pizza and ice cream . 7 kashrut edit the jerusalem and ha arbaa locations are kosher . 4 the other locations are in primarily secular areas of israel where jews do not typically keep the laws of shabbat . therefore if the locations were to be kosher they must close on friday nights a very popular night for bars in these secular areas . suicide bombing edit main article mike s place suicide bombing on april 30 2003 a palestinian suicide attack perpetrated by british muslims killed three civilians and wounded 50 in the tel aviv location . 8 see also edit food portal companies portal israel portal culture of israel israeli cuisine economy of israel list of restaurants in israel references edit carleton university mike s place mike s place history retrieved 28 august 2014 zohar gil january 8 2009 . here s looking at you one last time . jerusalem post . jerusalem israel . retrieved january 11 2009 . though the nahalat shiva bar had 36 months remaining on its eight year lease last fall the landlord darinel business inc. invoked a demolition clause in that agreement to force the bar out . a b locations retrieved 28 august 2014 day 3 looking better each day . retrieved 28 august 2014 location retrieved 28 august 2014 take away menu retrieved 28 august 2014 details of april 30 2003 tel aviv suicide bombing 3 jun 2003 retrieved 28 august 2014 v t e restaurants in israel burger black bar n burger burgeranch burgers bar burger king macdavid mcdonald s israel mike s place coffee aroma espresso bar caf hillel cofix dunkin donuts starbucks israel pizza big apple pizza domino s pizza pizza hut steak el gaucho papagaio other caf caf caf rimon hashamen holy bagel max brenner mul yam roladin subway israel ticho house companies struck through in italics have closed retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mike % 27s place & oldid 727696377 categories restaurant chains in israelhidden categories articles containing hebrew language text navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 30 june 2016 at 17 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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