My radar went off when Shayne Gryn told me his entire staff had called in sick. Strange though it sounded, I took him at his word. It was Labor Day weekend 2016. I was leading a group of 16 Forward fans on a tour of Jewish Montreal and Toronto. As one of our dinner stops,…
Zak Stern can understand why a Miami newspaper called his new deli “New York-style and Florida-sourced.” But the cheerful, soft-spoken proprietor of Zak the Baker says they got it wrong. “It’s what my ancestors would have opened if they’d landed in Miami instead of Ellis Island,” Stern said. “Ashkenazi Jewish food, but with fish and…
Asian and Mediterranean cuisines are the stars at Jaffa, a new kosher restaurant in a high-end Moscow mall. The menu also dives into what’s known as Odessa cuisine — “traditional dishes of Eastern European Jews,” according to general manager Semen Boguslavsky. “Moscow has just a few kosher restaurants, so people who keep kosher have to…
Leave it to the 21st-century scions of a venerated 103-year-old smoked fish emporium to figure out how to serve a restaurant brunch on Saturday mornings to Sabbath-observant Jews — and anyone who can’t stand late-morning lines. Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper, the 4th-generation owners of Russ & Daughters, have done just that. At…
As they settle into their new Washington, D.C. digs, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner may be as unpleasantly surprised as I was to discover how very few kosher eateries exist in the nation’s Capital. Of course it’s likely that the Kushners will employ a private kosher chef at their new mansion in the Kalorama neighborhood….
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…
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