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You can also go for the ultimate outdoor dining experience. Chef Meir Karnash has designed and built a kitchen-on-wheels that he drives to anywhere in Israel. Put to work, the kitchen has everything he needs to cook a gourmet meal for up to 50 people.

"I love it because it gives people a chance to experience Israeli nature with fine food," says Karnash, who studied Cordon Bleu cuisine in Sydney and has worked as a chef in France. His unit is eco-friendly. Karnash calls his business Chefnoded (in English, the Wandering Chef) and cooks in private homes as well as in his mobile unit. He has made meals for small parties - he recently cooked for a couple who met him out in the countryside, arriving by helicopter - and big groups such as barmitzvah parties. Locations have included very isolated spots. "People have said: 'we want to eat next to Masada', so we open up the kitchen there."

Karnash's menus include toasted crostini with layers of aubergine and courgette on coriander cream; fresh corn polenta with butter, stir-fried wild mushrooms and pickled lemon and filet mignon in kalamata olive marinade on root vegetable cream, asparagus and merlot gravy. He can work with all-kosher ingredients, but his mobile unit does not have kosher supervision.

His meals may be outdoors but there is no expectation for diners to rough it. He sources furniture, waiters and waitresses, to create the full dining experience. "It's not a picnic but rather a restaurant in the middle of nowhere," he says.