An appropriately named Jerusalem soul food landmark, Chatzot (midnight) serves up Jerusalem's favorite meat dishes until the late night (which, for this sometimes-sleepy town, is about midnight). Walk down Agrippas Street past the market and chances are you'll get hit by the drifting aroma of fried onions, sizzling oil and spiced meat – that would be Chatzot.

The restaurant offers a small and spartan indoor seating section (in a throwback to an earlier era, the lettering on the door proudly trumpets the restaurant's air conditioning), but the real life of the party is the streetside grill, ready for walk-up and take-away orders.

The massive menu offers just about every single meat item that can be cooked on Chatzot's huge metal cooking surface – order what you like and it will be cooked in front of your eyes in the bubbling juices of whatever came before it, then stuffed into a pita and handed over.

Chatzot also claims the original (and what many say is the best) meorav yerushalmi, Jerusalem's signature dish, of a seasoned melange of the various edible bits of chickens.

This is vegetarian hell, so leave the herbivores at home.