For sale: 30-year-old restaurant located in world-renowned gourmet ghetto. Under same ownership for past two decades. Seats 110. Longest standing of its kind in East Bay. Pastrami smoker, deli counter and large stockpot for matzah ball soup included. New parklet in front. Price: negotiable. Then again, maybe a classified ad isn’t the best way for…
A veteran of Michael Solomonov’s Zahav is striking out on her own with a bakery focused on Jewish breads. Thirty-year-old chef Tova du Plessis, who’s been a line cook at Zahav and worked the kitchens in a gamut of Philadelphia hotspots, will open the Jewish-baked-goods-focused next month on Passyunk Avenue, home to a vibrant indie-restaurant…
An image of Zane Caplansky hanging in one of his deli’s Pearson International Airport offshoots. Look out, world: , the hugely popular Toronto deli, is about to expand in a big way. “Canada needs a little chutzpah, and I’ve got plenty to spare,” Zane Caplansky, the restaurant’s irrepressible founder, told the Forward. “Our goal is…
A once-Jewish San Francisco neighborhood gets a new deli. The empire keeps expanding. Owners Evan Bloom and Leo Beckerman opened a new location in San Francisco’s historically Jewish Fillmore neighborhood last week. The Fillmore District once thrived “with Jewish-owned bakeries, restaurants, shops and kosher markets. There were synagogues, a Yiddish Cultural Center and a Jewish…
Brooklyn’s getting a new kosher bakery this summer. Danny Branover, the Lubavitche owner of Crown heights kosher wine bar , will open the yet-unnamed shop nearby, DNA Info reports. More to come. New Kosher Market in N.J. Meanwhile, another kosher market’s opening in Clifton, New Jersey, home to a sizeable Orthodox population. Seasons, a kosher…
Mayor Bill de Blasio thanked owner Marian Harper (left) ‘for restoring this jewel in our crown.’ At least one fan at ’s official reopening ceremony this morning insisted that the legendary eatery makes “the best pastrami sandwich in the city.” That’s Mayor Bill de Blasio, who beamed as he cut a ceremonial cheesecake while the…
The ’s going kosher. AM NY reports that the museum’s BKM Café will add OK-certified Glatt kosher items to its menu, all provided by Wolf and Lamb, the upscale kosher steakhouse and caterer based in midtown and Brooklyn. BKM Cafè will serve kosher meals on Shabbos, too. Zak the Baker Eyes Deli Miami baker Zak…
Shimon Maman’s , whose décor includes streetlamps imported from Tel Aviv, has opened a to-go operation called The Kiosk. It’s billed as New York’s answer to the Israeli falafel stand, and it’s slinging up street food such as pita with falafel, kebabs, the eggplant sandwich sabich, bourekas and house-made hummus. 12 Chairs Kiosk, 342 Wythe…
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