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Libbi sukkah

Every restaurant in Manhattan is, at bottom, an argument against the weather. The walls, the ductwork, the heat lamps that sprouted along every avenue during the shed years all exist so that nothing happening outside can touch your dinner. Sukkot proposes the opposite deal: for a week we are told to eat under a roof … This week at Libbi, the best seat in the house is outside

PopUp Bagels

Before anything else, the kosher breakdown, because that is the only reason most of you clicked: every bagel at the new Garden City PopUp Bagels on Long Island is certified by National Kosher Supervision. Two cream cheeses, plain and scallion, are covered too. The OU-certified packaged lox is there if you want it but everything … PopUp Bagels opens on Long Island with a new kosher schmear

Malka

Every year around now, the Upper West Side stages a small civic miracle: balconies that have held nothing but a dying fern since April suddenly sprout schach, and every restaurant with a patio gets the same phone call from the same people. This year Malka has an answer. Eyal Shani’s Upper West Side outpost at … Malka’s Upper West Side patio becomes a sukkah for four nights

Kimchi bubaton

Buba Bureka has spent the past year proving to the masses that burekas should be bigger. Now, the delicious downtown spot is arguing that the treats should also be longer. The Greenwich Village bureka shop has introduced bureka sticks, a new format for the Israeli pastry that is the entire point of the tiny shop … Buba Bureka’s latest trick is the bureka stick

Barclays Center has decided that 2026 is the year Brooklyn kosher fans stop pretending the shrink-wrapped hot dog cart near Section 227 constitutes dinner. Smash House, the smashburger chain that already has a foothold in Marine Park, plus outposts in Queens, the Five Towns and two spots in Manhattan, is opening a stand in the … It’s official: Smash House is coming to the Barclays Center

Taste of Akko

There was a real void left when Taste of Akko closed its Coney Island Avenue doors last year, the kind of closure that gets mentioned in group chats for months afterward, mostly because the falafel was actually good and the malabi even better. Now the same owners are bringing the concept back, rebranded as 2AKKO, … The Taste of Akko team is back, this time in Crown Heights

The Malawach Kitchen

Midtown Manhattan has no shortage of kosher food, but a kitchen devoted almost entirely to malawach? That’s something new and oh-so-exciting. The Malawach Kitchen is now operating out of the Picnic food hall at 245 West 46th Street, near Eighth Avenue, serving a dozen or so interpretations of the flaky Yemenite Jewish flatbread. The OU-certified, … The new kosher Malawach Kitchen is serving the flaky Yemenite favorite in midtown

Falling For Pumpkin ice cream at Ample Hills

There are collaborations that feel focus-grouped into existence and then there is Ample Hills Creamery turning an entire loaf of Zabar’s cinnamon babka into ice cream. The Brooklyn-born scoop shop is teaming up with the Upper West Side institution (which is not certified kosher) on Holy Babka!, a limited-edition flavor arriving at all four Ample … Ample Hills and Zabar’s are turning an entire babka into kosher ice cream

Modern Bread and Bagel's The Bazaar

Modern Bread and Bagel has done it again, and this time the culprit is peas: through the end of the month, the gluten-free kosher darling of Manhattan is slinging a spring pea schmear piled onto its signature boiled-then-baked rounds with radish, mint and a crunch of everything seasoning that makes the whole thing feel extremely … This limited-time-only kosher bagel is all about green peas (yes, we agree it sounds odd)