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Caffe Aronne

Caffe Aronne is expanding uptown and owner Aaron Dahan gave us the details. Dahan told Pretty Kosher that the new location, set to take over the JCC’s ground-floor space at 76th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, was originally quoted a two-week turnaround by the contractor, but he’s betting on late August or early September in reality. … Caffe Aronne is opening a kosher location on the Upper West Side this summer

Holy Schnitzel

Holy Schnitzel, the hand-breaded schnitzel chain, has taken over the space at 245 West 46th Street that Cattle vacated after closing up shop with little explanation. Cattle had only opened last fall, a glatt kosher smokehouse turning out wood-smoked brisket, ribeye and burgers, all packaged for delivery—because the address was never an actual restaurant. The … Holy Schnitzel is opening inside a pick-up and delivery-only ghost kitchen near Times Square

Viva La Dough

Viral kosher patisserie Viva La Dough has come a long way from its holiday pop-up outside Macy’s Herald Square just last year. Now, the bakery has officially opened its fourth brick-and-mortar location at 160 Broadway in Manhattan’s Financial District, with a fifth Manhattan outpost reportedly on track to debut later this summer, according to Yeah … Popular bakery Viva La Dough just opened a new location in the Financial District

You can’t deny the deliciousness of a sandwich, even when compared with more eclectic foods—which is probably why Sushi Fussion has decided to get into the sandwich game with a new spinoff concept operating out of the same facility, by the same staff: Stacked and Toasted. The glatt kosher operation is essentially a sandwich shop … There’s a new glatt kosher sandwich shop in midtown Manhattan

Tandir Kebab House

Union Turnpike in Queens has unofficially become the kosher Bukharian restaurant hub of NYC—and it’s only growing. The latest addition: Tandir Kebab House, a new kosher Bukharian grill that just opened at 188-09 Union Turnpike. As first reported by Yeah That’s Kosher, the eatery is certified glatt kosher by the Vaad of Queens and offers … Tandir Kebab House is a new kosher Bukharian restaurant that just opened in Queens

Chef Guy Kairi, the executive chef behind the upscale Upper East Side restaurant Rothschild TLV, is expanding his footprint in the neighborhood. Operating out of the Rothschild Kitchen, Kairi has just launched two new delivery- and pick-up-only concepts: Kairi Sushi and Shmash NYC. Although all three operate from the same kitchen, they function as separate … Two new kosher delivery restaurants launch out of the Rothschild TLV kitchen on the Upper East Side

Just a few months after the non-kosher Suka Sushi went viral for serving push-up sushi rolls across NYC, kosher chain Nori Bar is following suit. When the spot debuts its new Kings Highway location on March 10, it will introduce similar-looking pop-up rolls—not just there, but across all of its New York outposts, including Boro … This kosher sushi spot is debuting push-up rolls next month

Pitmaster, the Israeli BBQ spot that’s more of an interactive dining experience than a straight-up restaurant, is officially crossing the ocean. The brand is set to open its first-ever U.S. locations later this year. According to YeahThat’sKosher, Pitmaster will kick things off in Florida, with a Miami-area outpost slated for Aventura sometime after Passover. New … Israeli live-fire BBQ dinner-and-show restaurant Pitmaster is opening in NYC

Sourdough became all the rage during the pandemic, as people stuck indoors embraced baking as both a pastime and a small act of self-sufficiency. It’s no surprise, then, that the trend has now, a few years later, creeped into the kosher world: Se’or Pizza is a new kosher eatery at 3005 Avenue K in Brooklyn’s … Se’or Pizza is a new kosher sourdough pizzeria in Brooklyn

Night Stories, a new Off-Broadway production built around the work of legendary Yiddish poet and Holocaust resistance fighter Avrom Sutzkever, opens this month at the Wild Project in Manhattan’s East Village at 195 East 3rd Street by Avenue B. The 68-minute production—which makes its official Off-Broadway debut on December 21 following a South American tour … This haunting new Off-Broadway play brings Yiddish resistance poetry back to life