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Brooklyn’s ‘Rainbow Bagel’ Closes Because Of Tax Evasion
Whether or not rainbow bagels should exist in the first place is a question we’ll save for another time. In the meantime, the Brooklyn birthplace of the infamous Rainbow Bagel – that’s a trademarked term, thank you – was forced to close this week after New York State’s Department of Taxation and Finance accused its…
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Diller’s Kosher Fried Pickles Is Now Open On The Lower East Side
What kind of extravagant, elaborate cuisine takes more than two years to reach the dining public? How about fried pickles? That’s the specialty at Diller, a kosher joint on Manhattan’s Lower East Side that has finally opened many, many months after its owners announced their plans. View this post on Instagram TOMORROW!! Grand opening! See…
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Pastrami Queen In Times Square Is Closing
When kosher deli Pastrami Queen expanded to Times Square’s Pearl Hotel in March, we marveled that Jewish delis had become hot in hospitality — think Mile End Deli at Nashville’s Fairlane and Zobler’s inside London’s Ned hotel. Maybe we spoke too soon. Just three months after a splashy opening, Midtown’s Pastrami Queen has gone to…
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Modernist Israeli Restaurant ‘Shook’ Opens In Toronto
With the recent opening of Shook in the city’s Entertainment District, Toronto’s gaining traction as a hub of next-generation, Israeli-inspired cuisine. The airy, sprawling Shook joins over-the-top Semitic palace Fat Pasha and industrial-chic Parallel as Hebrew-accented hotspots on the city’s polyglot dining scene. Toronto’s also where Cafe Landwer, the Israeli-owned “Middle Easter diner,” opened its…
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Chef Michael Solomonov Opening 3 New Israeli Restaurants In Philadelphia
As if we needed more reasons to visit – and fress – the dynamic duo of Michael Solomonov and Steve Cook will open three new restaurants in Philadelphia this summer and fall. This month, James Beard Award-winning chef Solomonov and his business partner will launch K’Far, an Israeli bakery and all-day café “inspired by the…
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This Holocaust Survivor’s Shabbat Dinner Cooking Videos Are Becoming An Instagram Sensation
Instagram’s most unlikely new star isn’t a twerking pop star or talking cat. She’s a 79-year-old Holocaust survivor in Great Neck, NY, whose Shabbat-dinner cooking videos have become a viral sensation with a celebrity following. Miriam Karimzadeh has had some help, as she’d be the first to admit. Her son, Marc Karimzadeh, is the dapper,…
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Meet The Woman Who Started A ‘Refugee-Powered’ Catering Company
Can artisan food change a refugee’s life? Hannah Goldberg thinks so. And through Tanabel, the “refugee-powered” catering and events company she launched last year, the classically trained chef is connecting new Americans and New Yorkers at hot-ticket dinners where immigrants showcase their own recipes. “I went to church dinners as a volunteer, and it was…
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Luxe Kosher ‘Reserve Cut’ Opens Concession Stand In Dumbo Food Hall
Kosher foodies don’t have a lot of options at New York’s glitzy new food halls. Cinnamon Snail, a vegan purveyor at Penn Station’s The Pennsy, is an outlier. But that number’s about to double. Center Cut, an offshoot of pricy kosher steakhouse Reserve Cut, is one of 21 vendors at Time Out Market, which opened…
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Archaeologists Discover Bronze Age Bagels
You can almost hear the kvetching over these bagels: They’re too small! Oy, so hard! My teeth! Okay – maybe it was grunts, since we’re talking about the Bronze Age. But a team of scientists has discovered 3,000-year-old “remains of small, round dough rings” that bear some striking resemblances to modern-day bagels. According to The…
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Finally, D.C. Is Getting Another Kosher Eatery, With Einat Admony’s ‘Taim’
Einat Admony’s heading to Washington. No, she’s not running for office, though the popular Balaboosta chef/author would probably outpoll some of the current Democratic hopefuls. Admony and Stefan Nafziger, her husband and business partner, are bringing Middle-Eastern chainlet Taim to our nation’s capital. It’s the first location for the kosher/vegetarian quick-service brand outside Manhattan, and…
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Has Breads’ Bakery Owner Opened NYC’s Most Authentic Middle Eastern Restaurant?
There’s an entrée called Shabtai-Style Fish on the menu at New York’s newest Middle Eastern restaurant, Lamalo, that has special significance for owner Gadi Peleg. “That’s the one that’s closest to my heart,” he says, “and we worked diligently to get it just the way that reminds us of our childhood.” Shabtai, it turns out,…
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