L.A. Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold shown in “City of Gold” digging into a Poseidon Tostada from the Mariscos Jalisco taco truck in Los Angeles. (JTA) — If you live in Los Angeles and care about food, you already know Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. You may have…
The sweet taste of dessert, properly cooked. Photographs courtesy of Moscow 57. Call it the Russian Iced Tea Room. For nearly eight months, Ellen Kaye and her partners struggled to run Moscow 57 — their jewel box of a restaurant on Manhattan’s Lower East Side — without gas service. Instead of the original menu inspired…
Russ & Daughters Cafe is one of Pete Wells’s top 10 restaurants of 2014. Photograph by Jen Snow and Kelli Anderson. New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells just came out with his list of the 10 best new restaurants of 2014, and I was excited to see that three of them are among my…
A kosher restaurant in Paris was fired on in an attack that is similar to one on a Paris synagogue days earlier. Bullet holes were discovered Wednesday in the window of the Al Haeche kosher restaurant located in the 19th district of northeastern Paris. The attack reportedly occurred Tuesday night, the JSSNews website reported. The…
New York is in the midst of an Israeli food movement, and one 5-foot mother of two, who zips between her Brooklyn home and her downtown Manhattan restaurants on a candy-pink Vespa, is leading the charge. By the end of 2014, Tel Aviv-born but naturalized American Einat Admony, 43, will have been a New York…
Carousela is an offbeat Jerusalem cafe with ornate wooden seats, vintage photographs of Yemenite women, posters of the British Mandate-era “Palestine Post” and a menu with several different types of shakshuka, or eggs poached in tomato sauce. But that’s not what makes this restaurant so unusual. That would be its kashrut status. Carousela is one…
Schwarma-Spiced Chicken Thighs with Hearts of Palm, Apricots, Roasted Patty Pan Squash and Preserved Lemon from Mile End’s new Middle Eastern menu. Photograph courtesy of Mile End New York’s Israeli food boom just got louder. The latest cannon blast is today’s announcement from Mile End Executive Chef Eli Sussman that beginning tomorrow night, he’ll offer…
A rabbi in Jackson, Miss. said he was thrown out of a local restaurant due to his religion. Rabbi Ted Riter of the Beth Israel Congregation told local media that an employee of Wraps, a Jackson restaurant, asked him if he wanted “a full size or a Jewish size” when he ordered a Greek salad….
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