The Eucalyptus promotes the Israeli food trend emphasizing biblical ingredients, including the Seven Species. "
Wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olive oil, and date honey" are all regularly used in dishes.
Basson has extensively researched biblical food preparation and eating traditions as well.
In addition, Basson personally forages for wild ingredients growing on the nearby Jerusalem hills, including wild chicory, mallow, sage, purslane, lemon verbena, and other edible plants.
Instead of stuffed grape leaves, for example, the restaurant offers stuffed Jerusalem sage, mulberry leaves, cyclamen leaves, and mallow.

The menu is primarily meat-based, although some vegetarian and vegan dishes are available.
Tasting menus are available for different courses, such as a soup course of Jerusalem artichoke, lentil, and tomato and mint soups and a meze course of pickled green almonds, marinated black olives, and hummus and eggplant salad.
Basson makes a ceremony with diner participation out of his signature dish, maqluba, a regional dish prepared by browning chicken in the bottom of a heavy pot, layering browned vegetables and rice into the pot, slow-cooking the dish without stirring it, and finally flipping it out upside down to produce a cake-shaped mound with layers of rice and vegetables topped by the chicken.
Other house specialties are figs stuffed with chicken and served in a sweet and sour tamarind sauce, and neck of lamb baked overnight in a clay pot covered with pita bread.

The restaurant has hosted several multi-course dinners featuring animals and birds whose kashrut status is not widely known.
These include an 18-course meal in 2010 that featured pheasant and guineafowl pastries, water buffalo, swordfish, deer, and fried locust, and a 16-course "Feast of Exotic Curiosities" sponsored by the Biblical Museum of Natural History, including Asian water buffalo, kingklip fish, and Muscovy duck.
When a plague of locusts swarmed into southern Israel in 2013, Basson served the kosher species of locust to customers at private dining events.
The Eucalyptus promotes the Israeli food trend emphasizing biblical ingredients, including the Seven Species. "Wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olive oil, and date honey" are all regularly used in dishes. Basson has extensively researched biblical food preparation and eating traditions as well. In addition, Basson personally forages for wild ingredients growing on the nearby Jerusalem hills, including wild chicory, mallow, sage, purslane, lemon verbena, and other edible plants. Instead of stuffed grape leaves, for example, the restaurant offers stuffed Jerusalem sage, mulberry leaves, cyclamen leaves, and mallow.
The menu is primarily meat-based, although some vegetarian and vegan dishes are available. Tasting menus are available for different courses, such as a soup course of Jerusalem artichoke, lentil, and tomato and mint soups and a meze course of pickled green almonds, marinated black olives, and hummus and eggplant salad. Basson makes a ceremony with diner participation out of his signature dish, maqluba, a regional dish prepared by browning chicken in the bottom of a heavy pot, layering browned vegetables and rice into the pot, slow-cooking the dish without stirring it, and finally flipping it out upside down to produce a cake-shaped mound with layers of rice and vegetables topped by the chicken. Other house specialties are figs stuffed with chicken and served in a sweet and sour tamarind sauce, and neck of lamb baked overnight in a clay pot covered with pita bread.
The restaurant has hosted several multi-course dinners featuring animals and birds whose kashrut status is not widely known. These include an 18-course meal in 2010 that featured pheasant and guineafowl pastries, water buffalo, swordfish, deer, and fried locust, and a 16-course "Feast of Exotic Curiosities" sponsored by the Biblical Museum of Natural History, including Asian water buffalo, kingklip fish, and Muscovy duck. When a plague of locusts swarmed into southern Israel in 2013, Basson served the kosher species of locust to customers at private dining events.
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