 Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel this is Daniel Rosal here and the good news is that there's even more healthy, tasty and delicious food in Jerusalem. I'm sitting today just outside Casa La Vie. It's a relatively new cafe in Jerusalem located on number 41 Derach Bet Lechem which in English is Bethlehem Road. This place was founded by an immigrant to Israel from Mexico and they are obsessed with doing the best coffee you've ever tasted. What we're trying now is espresso served with some seltzer as is traditional. They do pour over coffee, they do matcha, they have a whole menu and everything is done with very much care and precision. As well as that they have a food menu that's inspired by the Mexican orange of their proprietor. What I ordered here today is a little bit of black bean, vegan cheese on a toast, pico de gallo on top and it's absolutely delicious. This place has only been in business for a couple of months but it's already amassed a cult following among English speakers. If you shop to this place at 8 in the morning there's like 10 or 20 people working on their laptops, sitting out in the sun, you can sit in the sun here or in awning. I don't have stocks in this place but it's a really really good place and if you're looking for a new coffee shop in the lovely south Jerusalem neighborhood of Bakka check out Casa La Vie. So joining me here is the founder, owner, revolutionary in the Jerusalem food scene Alfonzo Yizchak. So Alfonzo, firstly thanks for taking the minute to join the YouTube conversation. Tell me a little bit about this place, it's really interesting, you're obviously doing a lot of coffee but there's very much a health food vibe going on here. So what's this place about exactly? Thank you very much but I want to correct you because the founder and the soul behind this is my wife, Maital, I'm just the guy working here and making my effort but we together wanted to share a little bit of our life and it was like a big big big gift and merit for us to do something in Jerusalem which we feel and think that it's the most beautiful place on earth. The coffee, we went into the specialty coffee idea world a couple of years ago, it was very interesting for us to discover this new world of flavors that it also connected a little bit to sustainability and a little bit of social justice and a little bit of connecting to the land and more rooted principles. Mexico itself and its people and the connection to the land also had a big impact on us so we went to share a little bit and through coffee we felt that it was a good opportunity to connect with people from different backgrounds, different colors and that's what Jerusalem gives you and this area in Jerusalem. The healthy food is that's how my wife cooks at home and it's just very part of our life, it's very very important, we've been close to food, we've been growing food in a part of our lives in Mexico in a farm, we volunteered in farms so we know what's behind food so it felt like a responsibility and it feels like a responsibility for us to give the best that we can even if people don't know about it, don't value it even if it's more expensive for us and at the end more expensive we feel there's a lot of value in it. Something I'd be very impressed by passing by this place a few times is that you guys don't even open a few months but there's already like seems to be a pool of regular people coming in the morning so for folks you're looking for a new place in Jerusalem to work with their laptop you guys have a table, what's your policy anyone can come work as long as they enjoy some coffee and food? Yes, yes, we wanted to do exactly the opposite of some places that put you some tools or chairs that are not comfortable for you to go there as fast as you can. Even the name itself Casa which is home in English and it's bite in Hebrew it's a place for you to feel at home so if that means you want to work in the place itself and the drink that we offered and the food can inspire you a little bit motivate you help you concentrate that's good if you want to come read something we have a selection of books that we like from different subjects and that's that's the idea behind it for you to come feel at home and it doesn't matter what's your purpose of coming here connecting connecting to your work to your creativity to what you're learning to the people you're talking to so that's that's a little bit of our goal. I have a final question for you because this area we're sitting in Bacca in south Jerusalem really beautiful neighborhood there was waffle bar here but to me there's a lot more potential here so I'm just curious why you guys chose to open a business specifically in this part of Jerusalem and not on maybe Amacara Faheim where there's a lot more people. Honestly it was like like a gift we knew this area bluntly we didn't knew it very well but as we started rebuilding and making the the repairments and starting to open and getting to know the people we felt that it was just what we were looking for we're looking for a place in Jerusalem that could receive all different people with all different backgrounds everyone is welcome here and I think this specific street connects different areas like Talpiot like Arnona and like Bacca all of the Mosheba Germanit, Mosheba Levani, even Tukatamon so we cover a lot of area from from people we think we can value what we're trying to offer cool well the food is unbelievable the coffee was great it's amazing so I wish you the best of luck and thanks very much Alfonso good luck as a business