Chef Dafna Mizrahi (above) won Chopped’s Thanksgiving Challenge. Mexican-Jewish chef Dafna Mizrahi has won top prize on The Food Network’s . The 23-year-old chef/owner of farm-to-table spot Monte’s Local Kitchen in upstate Amenia, New York, triumphed over three opponents on the show’s Thanksgiving episode. Mizrahi donated her $10,000 prize to a local horse-rescue organization. New…
Eli Zabar has expanded his with Eli’s Night Shift, a “craft beer bar” he’ll run with son Oliver. Also on offer: Signature cocktails and haimish dishes like fish & chips, house-made sausages and house-cured pastrami on rye with mustard. During the day, the space is one of Zabar’s Essentials cafés. Eli’s Night Shift, 189 E…
Humble pie? Not at Israeli-owned , which is whipping up five new pies for Thanksgiving. Among them: chocolate babka (pictured above), a riff on its cultishly admired babka; a traditional double-crust apple pie; delicately spiced pumpkin pie; and a classic pecan made with caramel. We’re kind of pumpkined out, but Breads has also rolled out…
Chef Yehuda Sichel’s latke with gin-cured salmon, pickled beets and Boursin. Grab a ticket for this sizzling event before it sells out: Philadelphia’s will host a latke tasting dinner for Hanukkah, chef Yehuda Sichel tells Philadelphia Weekly. “It hasn’t been super publicized yet, but it will be for the first night of Hanukkah,” Sichel says….
Haven’s Kitchen owner Alison Cayne (above) says, “Everything you do creates this bigger energy. That connectedness is a very Jewish concept.” Alison Cayne went big when she opened Haven’s Kitchen, renovating a gorgeous three-story carriage house on a busy Manhattan block. But behind the marble tabletops, rustic-chic decor and house-made granola at this cafe and…
Einat Admony, chef-owner of Balaboosta, Bar Bolonat, Taim and the soon-to-open Combina. Foodies, mark your iCals: Chef and her husband and business partner Stefan Nafziger have set November 14 as the opening date for Combina, their new West Village Sephardic-tapas spot. Molly Breidenthal, who is executive chef at Admony’s Bar Bolonat, will also be executive…
, the New York grocery chain founded in 1933 by Nathan Glickberg, is in trouble, says The New York Times. A leveraged buyout has loaded it with debt. An East Coast expansion has stalled. And its share price has tanked. Chains like Whole Foods and Trader Joe have become formidable competitors, says the Times. Nathan…
I’ve been fantasizing about the idea of planning a weekend trip to Philadelphia. Forget the Liberty Bell — my dream is to eat every meal at a different . (CookNSolo is the group of Michael Solomonov/Steven Cook joints that includes Zahav, Abe Fisher, Dizengoff, Percy Street Barbecue and Federal Donuts.) That would be some weekend….
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