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Food Rapper Drake to Open Restaurant in Hometown of Toronto
Onetime Drake is going into the restaurant business. The rapper has teamed with star chef Susur Lee to open Fring’s on Toronto’s hopping King West nightlife strip. “The two-level supper club is stylishly decorated (think reclaimed wood, plastic hanger chandeliers over the bar and a basement level that includes a private back entrance), with a…
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Food Pastrami Ice Cream, Anyone?
Pastrami, cream cheese and latke-applesauce are among the Jewish-deli flavors available at the Coolhaus ice cream shop in L.A. Seeing is believing, so watch the video! Ice cream flavors like pastrami and latke-applesauce sound insane — until you see the rest of the roster at L.A.’s . Think Cuban cigar (liquid “smoke” and coffee), Peking…
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Food Cafe Edison’s Replacement and All the Weekly Dish
Jewish, gluten-free-friendly lunch spot, Friedman’s, will replace New York’s “Polish Tea Room,” Cafe Edison. The late, lamented “Polish Tearoom” is getting a new life. Midtown Manhattan’s , whose haimish food and atmosphere drew theater folk for decades, will soon be replaced by “Jewish rustic” spot Friedman’s Lunch, the Daily News reports. Look for signatures like…
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Food Jeremy Corbyn’s Favorite Deli and All the Weekly Dish
British Jews of new ultra-lefty Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. But if his money’s where his mouth is — literally — maybe all’s not lost. Turns out Corbyn’s fave London restaurant is Gaby’s Deli, a Jewishy Soho establishment whose corned beef on bagel, falafel and chopped liver get kudos from The Guardian this week. The place…
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Food Tantalizing Rosh Hashanah Menus and All the Weekly Dish
A delectable spread from Boston pop-up Kitchen Kibitz. Welcome to the special Rosh Hashanah edition of Dish. Some of our favorite eateries across the country have pretty sweet offerings to ring in 5776. In Boston, a Rosh Hashanah Pop-Up Is Rosh Hashanah dinner allowed to sound this sexy? , the Boston Jewish-food pop-up, is offering…
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Food 6 Things Hillary Clinton Was Really Asking About Gefilte Fish
In the haystack of emails from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that were dumped yesterday, one cryptic needle poked through. The subject line was simply “Gefilte fish” — and the entire body of the message held one mysterious question: “Where are we on this?” and other news organizations quickly asked, “Where are we on what?”…
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Food Have I Got a Poppy Seed Bagel for You, Barack!
Turns out there’s hope for the president’s bagel predicament. When Forward Editor-in-Chief Jane Eisner what type of bagel he liked best, he waxed nostalgic over the poppy-with-a-schmear he used to pick up at the original H&H Bagels on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He expressed shock that the iconic establishment had bitten the dust — it…
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Food High Holiday Happenings and All the Weekly Dish
Holidays come early to Breads Bakery, which is offering its festive challah (above) and other Rosh Hashanah items starting Friday. You don’t have to wait until Rosh Hashanah to sink your teeth into High Holidays goodies at Israeli-owned in Manhattan. Starting September 4, watch for festive round challahs with poppy, sesame, flax, pumpkin, sunflower and…
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