Grilled Eggplant Salad with Jerusalem Flavors

After a day prowling the grill stalls and shawarma parlors around Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market, you begin to crave a proper restaurant with white tablecloths and a bona fide chef. Head for Arcadia, one of the pioneers of what might be termed the “new” Israeli cuisine. Some call the food here Israeli-French fusion; I call it a tasteful reinvention of traditional Israeli and Middle Eastern cuisines. You enter Arcadia through a narrow alley that leads to a courtyard with a canopy of