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Adafina, a gourmet kosher food brand in the UK, has launched a Glatt Kosher restaurant inside the oldest synagogue in Britain: Bevis Marks Synagogue, which opened 312 years ago in 1701, thus aptly naming the eatery: Restaurant 1701. The restaurants menus offer a gourmet take on traditional Jewish/Israeli food, including breakfast items such as  Shakshuka [...]

Pop-Up Kosher specialists in London, @KosherRoast, will be throwing it's last BBQ of the season (likely no coincidence that it is the Olympics) at the charity tennis tournament in aid of Action Against Cancer, UK and one of the world's leading centres of scientific research, Technion University, Israel.  Location: Farm Walk Tennis Club Time: Sunday, [...]

With the Jubilee celebrations in June, and the Olympics and Paralympics less than a week away, there has never been a better time to visit London. As a native Londoner here is a brief guide to where to eat and what to do during your stay, and where to find more information. Contributed by Nadia [...]

Contributed by: Yoni Friedman  |  Last Date of Travel: February 2012 Kosher Info: In the basement of the Jewish Community Center, 6 Skolas Street, is a Kosher restaurant called Cafe L'Chaim, the only Kosher place in Riga.  There's some interest in starting a new place, but nothing yet.  This restaurant is fleisch, moderately priced, and [...]

Contributed by Yoni Friedman | Last Date of Travel: February 2012 Kosher Info: There are two frum Indian vegetarian restaurants (not specifically kosher certified), where I ate most of the time. Both are in the old town. One is called Balti Drambliai at 41 Vilniaus Street. Very tasty, very cheap, diverse menu, great environment, my [...]

Review submitted by Simone Somekh from Milan   How many times, eating pizza in the USA, have we wondered how does the original Italian one actually taste? Thanks to Carmel, the best kosher pizzeria in Milan, Italy, now we won’t have to daydream anymore. Carmel is a well presented restaurant in the Jewish area of the [...]

Contributed by Bethany Mandel  |  Last date of travel: December 2011   Kosher Info: In December I went to Barcelona and Rome for a week total for my honeymoon. We spent the first part of the week in Barcelona. We came prepared with a suitcase full of food because prior research, including an email to the [...]

We've been compiling this list for the past few weeks – should there be any restaurants missing from this list from anywhere in the world, please message below or tweet us [@YeahThatsKosher] and we'll add the restaurants not on the list.   Venice: Gam Gam Kosher Restaurant, Sestiere Cannaregio, 1122, 30121 Venezia, Italy, +(39) 041.523.1495  [...]

Great list of Kosher for Pesach places in and around Paris this year – should there be any restaurants missing from this list from anywhere in the world, please message below or tweet us [@YeahThatsKosher] and we'll add the restaurants not on the list. We do not have details whether these restaurants serve Kitniyot or [...]

We've been compiling this list for the past few weeks – should there be any restaurants missing from this list from anywhere in the world, please message below or tweet us [@YeahThatsKosher] and we'll add the restaurants not on the list.   Golders Green: La Fiesta, 235 Golders Green Road, 020 8458 0444 Brasserie 103, [...]

The Kosher Deli in Helsinki (which was closed) has reopened and is called: Zaafran & Co. See map below for location. (It is next to the Synagogue, Kamppi metro station and the Radisson Blu Royal hotel) More info on www.zaafran.fi You can Email Lee@zaafran.fi for more info and orders (including hot meals) Read more about [...]

I love reading about new kosher restaurants in places where I don’t expect it. Not long ago, opening a Kosher restaurant in Moscow would’ve been unheard of. Now there’s a growing Jewish community to support it. According to this article in the Moscow News, Noodles is a Brooklyn-inspired Kosher meat restaurant that has a nice [...]

Earlier this year, I flew KLM/Delta to Israel, with a nice 8+ hour stopover in Amsterdam. I liked this option as it gave me the opportunity to leave the AMS airport and explore the city. In the short time there I managed to figure out exactly how to (using public transportation only) get to the [...]

“Kosher Roast” is renting out a bar called “The Shop” in the Kensal Rise neighborhood of London. The Shop will be converted into a Kosher restaurant for 2 Sunday’s next month: December 4th and 11th. This is clearly a concept that the founders of Kosher Roast are testing. For each of the 2 days, only [...]

Contributed by: Ashley Spade | Last Date of Travel: June 2011 I recently returned from a trip to Marbella, Spain with a few classmates and my dog, Sir Winston Pugsalot. I know how hard it can seem to find Kosher food while traveling, especially depending on the country. Luckily, my student health insurance agent is [...]

The following is an account of one of our community members who survived last month’s Oslo terrorist attack. The person wishes to remain anonymous. On July 22nd, 2011 Norway was hit with the deadliest terrorist attack its country has ever seen – and I was in the middle of it. At about 3:25pm, a politically [...]

Pretty exciting for those traveling in from out of town to watch the matches. Thank you Chabad for your hospitality, yet again. Originally posted on Chabad.org Chabad-Lubavitch of South London Campuses’ kosher barbeque is back again, offering hamburgers, hot dogs, strawberries and non-dairy ice cream to hungry tennis fans at Wimbledon. Begun in the driveway [...]

Contributed by: Nava Billet | Last Date of Travel: May/June 2009 Buongiorno! I thought people might be interested to hear about Shavuot in Rome. I stayed in a small suite next to one Synagogue, Bet Shmuel, on Via Garfagniana  (pronounced Gar-Fan-Nyana). It is a small shul, with congregants mostly of Libyan descent; they came to Italy after [...]

This is obviously a wake up call to Jews in Greece, and throughout Europe. This was an act of arson and not an accident. We are not making any recommendations or suggestions that Greece is particularly unsafe for Jewish travel or visitors, but we do ask that you heed caution regardless of where you are [...]

March 23rd – March 30th in Canazei, Italy Join young professionals from around the world for a week of fun and skiing in one of the most exotic ski locations in the world: Canazei, Italy. The group will be staying at the FOUR STAR My One Hotel Canazei, a year-round Kosher Ski Resort. The cost [...]

Imagine flying from Israel to London on a long, nearly 5 hour flight. Now imagine the meal carts coming down the isle and serving hot fragrant food wafting into your nostrils, your mouth beginning to salivate, only for you to discover that your options are ham & cheese and bacon sandwiches. WHAT??? Are you kidding [...]

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CookEuro has recently sent out a schedule for the following week long Kosher Cooking vacations in 3 beautiful regions of Italy and France: Emilia Romagna, Italy: May 9-16, 2011 Tuscany, Italy: August 29-September 5; September 5-12, 2011 Provence, France: October 31-November 7, 2011 The instructors in the region of Tuscany are Cristina Blasi and Gabriella [...]

Contributed by: Michelle Szpilzinger | Last Visited: June 2010 Kosher Info: Nice has a small Jewish community and a few restaurants and kosher shops. There are two good and mostly (but not entirely) accurate sites that list kosher places in France. One is 123 Kosher and the other is Kosher in France. As with almost [...]

Contributed by: Rachael Abrams | Last Date of Travel: June 2010 Kosher Info: With a large Jewish community, Paris provides a wide variety of Kosher restaurants. It is nice to stay in one of the most incredible cities in the world, knowing there’s a good kosher boulangerie nearby. The beauty of Paris lies beyond the [...]

Contributed by: Michelle Szpilzinger | Last Visited: June 2010 Kosher Info: This is a Google Map I made of kosher places. There are two kosher restaurants in Cannes. Le Tovel is a very nice meat restaurant run by Chabad that has indoor and outdoor seating and is just a few blocks inland from the beach. [...]

Contributed by: Elina Rokhkind | Last Date of Travel: October 2009 Kosher Info: There are three sources of kosher food in Florence, all of them located in close proximity to the synagogue. The first is the dairy vegetarian Ristorante Ruth. Since it’s the only sit-down place, you get to meet here all kosher tourists visiting [...]

I spotted this article shared on the JewishJournal site. Thought it was worth sharing. If you find out about similar “Kosher Travel” news, please let us know. A hotel with a kosher restaurant has opened in a southwestern Ukrainian town. The Under the Temple hotel in Ivano-Frankovsk, near the town synagogue, is the first kosher [...]

Israelis, and Jews the world over have enjoyed traveling to & around Turkey for the past decade or more due to exceptional Israeli – Turkish relations in the region. However, due to last month’s flotilla incident, Israel’s National Security Council Counter-Terrorism Bureau (NSCCTB) has issued a travel warning to Israelis planning trips to Turkey. In [...]

Contributed by Elina Rokhkind | Last Date of Travel: October 2009 Kosher Info: All Jewish life in Venice is clustered inside the former Ghetto area of two compact squares – Campo di Ghetto Nuovo and Campo di Ghetto Vecchio. Here you can find two meat kosher restaurants: Gam-Gam, which is owned and operated by Chabad, [...]

Contributed by: Esther Zar | Last Date of Travel: September 2009 Kosher Info: We flew into Barcelona with a list of three potential options for kosher food. Well as we eliminated them (one didn’t answer, and the other seemed questionable in kashrut), we were left with one last option: Isamar Kosher (Address: Carrer de l’Avenir, [...]

Contributed by: Michelle Szpilzinger | Last Visited: January 2009 Kosher Info: This site has a good list of the kosher resources in Brussels. There is not much to find in the old historic center, but there are currently two kosher restaurants in the EU area, which is not a major tourist destination but is fairly [...]

Contributed by Elina Rokhkind | Last Date of Travel: October 2009 Kosher Info: Thankfully, Rome offers a decent choice of options for the kosher traveler. In addition to the centrally located former ghetto neighborhood with about a dozen eateries ranging from the quick bites to fancy restaurants, there are a few other residential neighborhoods with [...]

There is now a silly tradition that many Americans hold Christmastime each year… to indulge in Chinese cuisine. Since the Chinese do not celebrate Christmas, like us Jews, their restaurants have no need to take a hiatus on Xmas day. In honor of this wacky tradition, we’ve compiled a list of Chinese restaurants (both sit-down [...]

Jews the world over are traveling around to friends, family, or to new locations this Passover. While it is typically impossible to find kosher restaurants or eateries open for Passover, here are a few that I’ve found that will be open this year on Chol Hamoed (intermediary days of Passover): Prague, Czech Republic Shalom Maiselova [...]

Contributed by: Sara Marx  |   Last Date of Travel: October 2008 Kosher Info: Via Del Portico d’Ottavia is a street with many kosher options and it is right by the big main synagogue. There are two “upscale” meat restaurants, a dairy place (we didn’t try it), and a couple of falafel/fast food places. We ate [...]

Flipping through the Jewish Press I came across an ad for Kosher Cruises. That didn’t catch my eye, but when I saw “First Ever Kosher Cruise to Israel & Egypt” I said wait… that’s cool. The cruise is Glatt Kosher includes stops in Naples, Italy; Athens & Rhodes, Greece; Ephesus (Kusadasi), Turkey; Haifa & Ashdod, [...]

Contributed by: Arielle Klein  |  Last Date of Travel: June 2008 Kosher Info: Of all the places we never thought we’d find a fancy kosher restaurant, Tallinn was one of them. Lo and behold we found Moses a beautiful Israeli owned restaurant located within Tallinn’s beautiful synagogue. Walking in the synagogue took our breaths away [...]

Contributed by: Arielle Klein  |  Last Date of Travel: June 2008 Kosher Info: Helsinki has a kosher deli, which unfortunately for us, is only open Thursday. We had some trouble finding it, but lucky for us while in one of the local malls we met an Israeli who was so overjoyed to see fellow landsmen. He [...]

Contributed by Dahlia Adler Fisch | Last Visit: July 2008 Kosher info: There is a surprisingly large population of Jews living in Istanbul today, but there is only one Kosher restaurant in the entire city of Istanbul. Fortunately, it’s a good one—tasty, reasonably priced, and accepts all major credit cards. Carne is located at 53 [...]

Contributed by: Dahlia Adler Fisch | Last visited: July 2008 Kosher Info: If you’re looking for a vacation destination that’s both incredibly beautiful and rich in Jewish history, not to mention extremely Kosher-friendly, look no further than the capital of the Czech Republic. Prague (or Praha) has not one but three Kosher restaurants (four if [...]

Contributed by Prianka Mizrahi | Last Date of Travel: May 2008 Kosher Info: There are a few kosher restaurants around the city center. My personal favorite is Fleming’s Kosher Restaurant which is inside the Jewish center on St Jakobs-Platz. The restaurant is located by an area called Marienplatz and 3 blocks from the City Hall [...]

Contributed by: Tina Pollack | Last Date of Travel: July 2007 Kosher Info: Dublin does not have a very large Jewish community, but access to kosher food is definitely possible. Terenure Synagogue Hall has a small restaurant with a full menu and also fast-food options (Meat), but it is only open Thursday evenings and not [...]

Contributed by: Tina Pollack | Last Date of Travel: July 2007 Kosher Info: The Greek Islands do not have any established Jewish communities, thus finding accessible kosher food could be difficult. See http://www.chabad.gr/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/66080/jewish/Kosher-products-list.htm for a list of kosher products available throughout Greece. The Islands have a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables and also different [...]

Contributed by: Dani Klein | Last Date of Travel: June 2008 Kosher Info: Copenhagen does have a kosher market, Samson Market, but it holds strange hours – you should call in advance. There is a veggie restaurant that the locals visit near the Stroget (pronounced “stroyet”) called RizRaz. Ask to make sure which dishes have [...]

Contributed by: Dani Klein | Last Date of Travel: June 2008 These companies operate throughout the Baltic Sea servicing Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga, and more. We took a Silja Line ferry (more like a cruise) from Stockholm to Helsinki. We had our own private room and shower since it was a 16+ hr trip. The [...]

Submitted by Dani Klein | Last Date of Travel: June 2008 Kosher Info: Stockholm’s only kosher store is a market called Kosherian located at Nybrogatan 19. You have to go through a gate to find this address. It isn’t directly on Nybrogatan street and you may go through security to get into the building. While [...]

Contributed by: Dani Klein | Last Date of Visit: May 2008 Kosher Info: Iceland has no official Jewish population, no Chabad, and thus no Kosher food. It is imperative to bring your own food with you to Iceland. If you are desperate to find something fresh to eat in Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital, there is a [...]

Contributed by: Abbie Rosenbaum-Braha | Last Travel Date: [Author lives in Milan] Kosher Info: Milan’s kosher community is well served by three small supermarkets which carry just about anything that one could want. The following website gives a thorough listing of all kosher and Jewish establishment in Milan and throughout Italy: http://www.jewishitaly.org. If you will [...]

Contributed by: Abbie Rosenbaum-Braha | Last Travel Date: January 2008 Kosher Info: Nice is fairly small and just about all of the kosher places are reachable by foot from each other, the train station, and the Mediterranean. What was really great about Nice is that somehow, outside of Chabad, nobody spoke English or Hebrew, so [...]