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There’s nothing quite as relaxing as spending time in a well-designed café, enjoying a perfectly brewed coffee while nibbling on freshly made pastries. Neighbors, a relatively new spot located at 1878 East 4th Street in Midwood, offers just that: a cozy atmosphere and delicious kosher fare certified by Rabbi Marmorstein. Perhaps most impressive is the Neighbors is a stylish new kosher café that’s now open in Brooklyn

This is a pretty big deal: the ultra-popular vegan Szechuan spot, Spicy Moon, founded by June Kwan in 2019 in the East Village, is officially going kosher. The restaurant has earned its kosher certification under the guidance of Lighthouse Kosher and joins a growing list of vegan restaurants across Manhattan that have made the same Famous NYC vegan Szechuan restaurant Spicy Moon is going kosher

On October 7, 2023, Raif Rashed, an Israeli Druze who isn’t Jewish or Muslim, was scheduled to board his flight back to the United States after visiting his family in Israel during the holiday season. He had been working as an engineer in New York since 2019. “My brother asked me to stay one more Taboonia is a new kosher Israeli Druze restaurant run by a Nova Music Festival survivor

Despite sudden location closures and rumors of financial troubles, Patis Bakery appears to be thriving. The kosher café just opened its newest location in Manhattan’s Financial District at 160 Broadway, near Liberty Street, taking over the former home of Milk N’ Honey. The beautiful new location adds a much-needed kosher option to the area, offering Patis Bakery just opened in Manhattan’s Financial District

As the weather warms up, kosher foodies should consider flocking to the Arthouse Hotel at 222 West 77th Street by Broadway on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where a charming new kosher café has just opened to much fanfare. Dubbed Le Lis Café, the spot offers breakfast and lunch options both inside the hotel’s Le Lis Cafe is a charming new kosher spot that just opened inside a Manhattan hotel

Chiyoda kosher Chinese and sushi restaurant exterior in Long Island

Long Island will soon welcome a brand-new kosher restaurant: Chiyoda, a kosher Chinese and sushi eatery, will soft-open at 20 South Station Plaza, right by the Great Neck LIRR station, this Monday, March 11. According to an official spokesperson, the restaurant is expected to open for full service by the end of the month. Chiyoda Chiyoda is a new kosher Chinese and sushi restaurant with a full liquor license opening on Long Island

Interior of Safta’s kosher coffee and pastry shop on Upper West Side

Upper West Siders, rejoice! Safta’s is a delightful new coffee and pastry shop that’s now officially open at 2345 Broadway by 86th Street in Manhattan, offering the neighborhood a vast range of bagels, fresh sandwiches and coffee drinks under Rabbi Avrohom Marmorstein’s kashrut certificate. The name safta, which means grandma in Hebrew, truly encapsulates the Safta’s is a New Kosher Coffee & Pastry Shop on the Upper West Side

Perhaps the most celebrated kosher bakery in NYC, Michaeli Bakery has just opened a new outpost at the Marlene Meyerson JCC, located at 334 Amsterdam Avenue near 76th Street, bringing Adir Michaeli’s renowned creations to the Upper West Side. The original bakery, which opened in 2019 at 115A Division Street on the Lower East Side, Popular Israeli Michaeli Bakery just opened a new kosher outpost inside the JCC

Sen Saigon, the Lower East Side eatery that markets itself as the only vegan Vietnamese destination in all of NYC, is now officially kosher. The restaurant, located at 150 East Broadway by Rutgers Street, announced the news earlier this month in an Instagram post showcasing the certification of kosher supervision by Rabbi Barry Dolinger of The only vegan Vietnamese restaurant in NYC is now officially kosher

It has been over a year since the first rumors regarding the opening of a kosher grocery store at the same Upper West Side address where Seasons Kosher used to operate started making the rounds online. This week, those rumors were finally put to rest: novel grocery shop Six60One just debuted at 661 Amsterdam Avenue A new kosher supermarket just opened on the Upper West Side