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BloomBar Café et Fleurs

BloomBar Café et Fleurs is bringing its café-and-flower-shop concept to the Upper East Side, adding a new address to the neighborhood’s kosher dining map—though the Manhattan location’s supervision details are still forthcoming. The Brooklyn and New Jersey business plans to open at 1226 Third Avenue, at East 71st Street, in late October, with matcha, coffee … BloomBar is bringing matcha, flowers and a kosher café concept to the Upper East Side

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

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

Wolf & Lamb

There are very few kosher restaurants in New York that feel less like restaurants and more like institutions. Wolf & Lamb, the midtown steakhouse that has almost defined the neighborhood for three decades, is one of them, so news of its closure and imminent re-opening at a different address has obviously raised some eyebrows. Before … Iconic NYC kosher steakhouse Wolf & Lamb is officially moving after 30 years in midtown

Liba in Williamsburg

The rise of truly great kosher restaurants in New York continues: places with a real point of view, a strong design sensibility, thoughtful wine programs and menus you’d want to order whether or not you were looking for a kosher meal. Malka helped kick things off uptown, redefining what kosher dining could look like in … Here’s everything we know about Liba, the new kosher meat restaurant in Williamsburg

Viva La Dough

Boy, what a difference one year makes: Viva La Dough, , the viral Paris-inspired kosher cafe that debuted as a seasonal pop-up outside of Macy’s just last year, is gearing up for the debut of its fifth storefront, this one at 525 7th Avenue by 39th Street in midtown Manhattan. As first reported by Yeah … Viva La Dough is opening yet another location, this one in midtown Manhattan

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