Archive | August, 2011

Travel Product Review & Giveaway: The Toddy Smart Cloth

The Toddy Smart Cloth is a really great small product that helps you clean your touchscreen tech devices from smudges and bacteria. A great product companion on the go for your iPhone, Android, iPad, and more. Watch the video to see it in action Click here to enter the Toddy Smart Cloth Giveaway Learn more [...]

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Finding Kosher Restaurants in Jerusalem’s Old City (Jewish Quarter)

Contributed by: Dani Klein | Last Date of Travel: June 2011 Kosher Info: The title of this post is kind of misleading in that you’re definitely going to find kosher places to eat in the Old City. In the Jewish Quarter that is. Don’t expect to find anything kosher in the Christian, Muslim, or Armenian [...]

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Post Hurricane Irene: Kosher Restaurants Open in NYC area

Scrolling through my Facebook feed, I noticed people asking what kosher restaurants were open in their various neighborhoods. I decided it would be a good idea for YeahThatsKosher to post a list for the NY Metro area. So I put up a Facebook status asking people if they knew of any restaurants currently open, and [...]

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Grand Opening of “Burger.org” in Philly, PA

Following last week’s announcement of “Chicken.org” opening in Philadelphia, the same owners have converted its other meat-themed establishment, “Burger.org” into a Glatt Kosher burger joint as of today. The Israeli owners of these establishments have added 2 fleishig restaurants to Philly within a matter of a few days. Burger.org is located at 326 South Street, [...]

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Café Tapuz in Bazra Moshav, Israel [Guest Review]

Thank you to Claire Horwich (@PrinceHorwich) for this review while she was in Israel recently. Cafe Tapuz – Nehalim Street, Bazra Moshav, Israel Phone: 09-746-9322 Café Tapuz is located in an orange grove in Moshav Bazra (Batzra/Batsra/Basra – or however it is spelled in English) in the Sharon region of Israel (directly north of Ra’anana) [...]

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New Kosher Market in San Jose, CA – Pars Kosher Market

San Jose is not your center of Jewish life, and although normally we do not cover kosher markets, I felt that as a travel site, we should let people who are traveling through San Jose know about the availability of picking up some Kosher items. It’s called Pars Kosher Market, located at 3978 S. Bascom [...]

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Grand Opening of “Chicken.org” Restaurant in Philly, PA

The Chicken.Org restaurant opened in Philadelphia on Tuesday at 534 South 4th Street (SW corner of 4th & South Sts). Israeli owners Eyal Aranya and Yoni Nadav also own Philly burger joint Burgers.org (which is NOT kosher, but may be coverted to a Glatt Kosher restaurant soon). They decided to launch Chicken.org as a Glatt [...]

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“Prime Sandwich” – New Meat Restaurant Opening in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY

Kingston Ave. in Crown Heights, Brooklyn is getting its own Schnitzel “sandwich” shop in ‘Prime Sandwich’, which is set to open directly before or after the Jewish holidays (2011). According to Shamis.com, the restaurant will be under the Hashgacha of the Beis Din of Crown Heights (CHK).

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Los Angeles’ Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Set to Open in NYC This Month!

Coffee Bean, the ever popular Los Angeles caffeine shop is opening up 4 shops in Manhattan… the first within the next 2 weeks – by the end of August – at 1412 Broadway on the corner of 39th street. The California coffee chain is set to launch 4 locations in NYC in the coming year. [...]

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Shalom Pita in Atlantic City, NJ Removes All Dairy, Now a Meat Restaurant

Technically in Ventnor City, NJ, a mile from Atlantic City, Shalom Pita, slightly more than a year old, has decided to switch it’s menu from dairy to meat. It will still offer its vegetarian falafel and knishes, but will now offer a full deli and grill menu. Shalom Pita offers free delivery service for orders [...]

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Kosher Fresh Diet Express Invades NYC with its New Food Truck

In the past month, a new Kosher Food Truck hit NYC. The former Quick Stop Kosher truck was purchased by the “Kosher Fresh Diet” and is now “The Kosher Fresh Diet Express“, serving kosher observant New Yorkers. Fare being sold includes sandwiches, wraps, salads, as well as healthy breakfast and dinner entrees, found only on [...]

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Check out the 7th Annual Jerusalem Beer Festival

The Jerusalem Beer Festival is celebrating its 7th year at the city’s historic train station, now a cultural center near Yemin Moshe and Katamon. Over 100,000 liters of more than a hundred brands from all over the world will be offered, mainstream, boutique and local brewed.

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Inbal Jerusalem Hotel to Offer Special Tu B’Av Menu at their Sofia Restaurant

Tu B’Av (ט”ו באב), known locally in Israel as the holiday of love (חג האהבה), or the “Jewish Valentine’s Day”. For more info on the background of this minor Jewish holiday, click here. The Inbal Jerusalem Hotel is offering diners an unique experience at their Sofia restaurant with a special Tu B’Av menu and dessert. [...]

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SPG to provide Kosher for their guests at the US Open

YTK covered availability of Kosher food at the US Tennis Open yesterday. I had a related experience courtesy of Starwood Hotels “SPG Moments” program. Here’s the background… Starwood Hotels manages one of most flexible and valuable loyalty point programs out there, Starpoints for Starwood Preferred Guests (or “SPG”). In addition to the usual like free hotel stays or [...]

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New Kosher Eatery (Good Fellas) to Open in Downtown Manhattan, NY

For those of us who work all the way downtown in the financial district of New York, a kosher restaurant closing is a sad day. So when Essex on Coney Downtown closed, it reduced our options significantly. Replacing “Essex” will be a new restaurant called “Good Fellas” at 17 Trinity Place. And even though the [...]

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Finding Kosher Food @ the US OPEN (Tennis) 2011 in Queens, NY

For those attending the US Open (Tennis) looking for Kosher food this summer, Kosher Sports, Inc, under the supervision of the Star K, will have the exclusive Kosher food cart at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, Queens, NY. The stand will be located near Court 12 on the edge of the [...]

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