From your Tweets, emails and comments, we knew how much Forward readers loved deli. But your passionate responses to two recent roundups — one on the delis we lost in 2017; the other on delis in unexpected places — overwhelmed us. With such ardent fans, we think Jewish deli, once very clearly on the decline,…
In its first expansion outside NYC, Mile End Deli, the Montreal-inspired phenomenon launched by Noah and Rae Bernamoff in 2010, will open in Nashville late this year. Mile End was lured by operators of the Fairlane, an 81-room boutique hotel in a repurposed bank building set to debut this spring. “Nashville had lost some of…
Here’s a short list of Jewish delis where you might least expect to find them. Call it the “Who Knew?” list. And if we missed any, please let us know! Bernstein’s, Winnipeg Close your eyes and inhale: Inside Bernstein’s, Manitoba might as well be Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Thick corned beef is made in-house, fragrant…
Walking home from the gym on West 116th Street I spotted Bo’s Bagel’s, a new place I’d heard about recently. Hungry and curious, I stopped in. The shop smelled exactly the way I remember the dearly departed Upper West Side H&H smelling — toasty and yeasty with faint notes of baked sesame and poppy seeds,…
(JTA) — The owner of a high end, glatt kosher restaurant claimed in a lawsuit that local rabbis are forcing him out of the kosher community because his wife isn’t Jewish. Dimitry Berezovskiy, owner of the Riverdale K Grill House, in a lawsuit filed in Bronx Supreme Court, alleges that his landlord Moses Marx and…
Just when we thought 2017 had slunk off for good — let’s face it, the year stunk in myriad ways — word arrived about the closing of Caplansky’s, a nouveau-deli pioneer and beloved Toronto hangout. In a Facebook post, owner Zane Caplansky said that the eatery never recovered from a 2016 landlord-tenant spat that temporarily…
Call it nouveau vegan: As diners demand more healthful options, plant-based cuisine is having a moment — and Jewish chefs are leading the charge. One of the pioneers is Guy Vaknin, whose 5-year-old Beyond Sushi has exploded from a modest counter in Manhattan’s East Village to a five-restaurant chainlet. Days after Vaknin and his wife/business…
For vegans, is this a golden age of dining? Judging from these 10 fabulous plates, which make magic minus the meat, the answer is “absolutely.” Some of the eateries on our list are kosher; some are modern Israeli, or Israeli-inspired. A couple of them have Jewish chefs. Whatever their orientation, they might coerce even committed…
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