Penguin (restaurant)

Penguin (Hebrew: פינגווין; German: Pinguin) was the oldest restaurant in Nahariya and one of Israel's oldest surviving restaurants.

[2] The restaurant was continuously family owned and operated.

Penguin was founded as a 1940 kiosk by Ernst Oppenheimer,[3] who arrived in 1936 from Offenbach am Main, Germany and initially tried to make a living by farming.

[4] Penguin developed into a restaurant and bar that was popular with the German immigrants of Nahariya and, until 1948, with the British Mandate soldiers.

[4] In the 2010s the restaurant was managed by Amir Oppenheimer, a great-grandson of the founder.