Chef Leah Cohen sounds so restless that it’s almost hard to believe she’s settled down to run a restaurant. After years of toiling in A-list Manhattan kitchens like Eleven Madison Park and Centro Vinoteca — and taking a star turn on Bravo’s Top Chef — Cohen crisscrossed Asia for a year exploring food of her…
If you’re a music lover of a certain age, you probably have fond memories of Tower Records, the gargantuan stores that seemed to carry every audible work ever recorded. Now, a Sacramento deli is being named in honor of Tower founder and native son Russ Solomon, who is 91. Solomon’s Deli will open in late…
Two Jewish media stars walk into a bar… …and buy it. No joke: Sports commentator Tony Kornheiser and talk-show maven Maury Povich have purchased Chad’s, a popular hangout for Washington, D.C., media folk for decades. The pair plans to upgrade the beer and wine menu, build a podcast studio for Kornheiser’s online chat show and…
Some would argue that there’s nothing funny about treyf. And the trio behind [“Traif (An Unkosher Series),”](An Unkosher Series ““Traif (An Unkosher Series),””) a new online comedy based on Brooklyn’s very real Traif restaurant, would argue that they’re wrong. When Chef Jason Marcus opened the eatery — a bagel’s throw from Satmar enclaves in Wiliamsburg…
Apparently, Monty’s Deli is the new Katz’s. At least that’s what owner Marc Ogus is saying about his new London deli, opening this month in the city’s historically Jewish East End. Ogus and co-owner Owen Barratt, both in their 20s, are promising pastrami, “bottomless coffee, brunch — including a giant potato latke and fried egg…
It was better in the Bahamas — unless you kept kosher. Until now. Atlantis, the massive Paradise Island resort, is partnering with Glatt kosher tour provider Kosherica to offer on-site kosher catering services for the first time. The Atlantis is also touting special “cultural touches,” including a “beautifully decorated chuppah overlooking the crystal-blue Bahamian waters”…
Yanni has opened a kosher Israeli bakery in San Francisco. No, not that Yanni. This one’s a 4th-generation baker who goes by one name only and partnered with three friends from Israel to open Taboon. Recipes come from Yanni’s great-grandfather Mosheh, who emigrated from Iraq to Israel and owned a bakery in Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda…
Stanley Eisen and Chaim Witz are behind a new chain restaurant in Chesterfield, Missouri. Who cares, you say? Eisen and Witz are better known as Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons of Kiss, and Rock & Brews is the brand they co-founded and own. Oh, sorry — it’s “an energized dining and entertainment concept offering affordable,…
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