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Breaking: Rosa’s Pizza in Empire State Building is No Longer Kosher

The popular Kosher eatery in the lobby of the Empire State Building is no longer Kosher. The restaurant has reportedly been sold and will not be maintained as a Kosher pizzeria.  H/T to @ElyRosenstock   

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New Soho Kosher Restaurant to Open: Jezebel

An odd name, and an odd location (for a Kosher restaurant), Jezebel is seeking to create another unique kosher experience in NYC, along the likes of Pardes, Mike's Bistro, and Basil. According to this recent WSJ article, Jezebel may be the first kosher restaurant to serve nonmevushal wine (unpasterized kosher wine), which is a huge [...]

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Wolf & Lamb Opening New Restaurant in Brooklyn

Wolf & Lamb Steakhouse, the popular midtown Manhattan restaurant, is opening up a new location in Midwood, on the corner of Coney Island Ave. & Ave. M. This space has been occupied by at least 1-2 other kosher restaurants over the past 10+ years, but hopefully this unique location will work well for the existing [...]

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Beware: Florida Panthers Serving “Kosher-Style” Food at Kosher Korner Kiosk for Playoffs

Thank you to @DaniOpp for your eagle eyes in catching & reporting this: Kosher Korner in the BankAtlantic Center, in Sunrise, FL (just west of Ft. Lauderdale & north of Miami) normally sells Glatt Kosher food at their stand for Panthers hockey games. Now, in the playoffs, they've been found to be selling "kosher-style" food [...]

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Philly’s Max & David’s Not Reopening After Pesach; Opening Food Truck Instead

The beloved Philly Kosher eatery, Max & David's of Elkins Park located in the Yorktown Plaza, is not reopening its doors after Passover, according to its owner Steve Katz (quoted by Philly.com). The restaurant was not profitable. Katz did note, however, that Max & David's will still live on as a food truck, with a [...]

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Café Du Monde Chain in New Orleans, Now Has Hashgacha

The New Orleans famous Cafe Du Monde chain, is now under strict orthodox rabbinical supervision for its fried beignets (its main food item). Beignets are a local delicacy and were brought to Louisiana by the Acadians (17th century French colonists). These were fried fritters, sometimes filled with fruit. Today, the beignet is a square piece [...]

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Kosher Restaurant Closings: Montreal, QC & Aventura, FL

The Reserve Tavern located @ 5395 Queen Mary, Montreal, Canada, formerly under the supervision of Montreal Kosher (MK) has Closed. Agadir Restaurant located @ 3599 NE 207th Street, in The Waterways Shops in Aventura, Florida, has decided to not be Kosher Certified and is NO LONGER under Kosher Miami supervision and certification or under any [...]

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J2 Pizza in NYC is Closing; Reopening Nearby as “Jerusalem Cafe”

“Broadway’s Jerusalem 2″ Pizza (J2) , now formerly “The Most Famous Kosher Pizza Place in the World”, will be closing its doors in it’s once popular location on Broadway in Midtown Manhattan. Why? We can’t say for sure, but the amount of competition recently (re: Bravo Pizza Becomes Kosher in NYC), coupled with declining quality [...]

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New Kosher Thai Restaurant Opens in Beverly Hills, CA

Beverly Hills Thai Kosher Kitchen opened earlier this month offering Los Angeles’s kosher observant foodies another ethnic kosher restaurant in the area. This restaurant is unique as it’s the only kosher (meat) Thai restaurant in town. The Thai owners aim to use fresh and healthy ingredients to offer a reasonably priced gourmet Thai meal. FYI: [...]

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Coming Soon to LA: Berry & Basil

Kosher foodies who love Italian should expect an overdose of it at Berry & Basil, combining Italian Gelato and Pizza under one roof (hopefully not on the same plate!). Berry & Basil will feature 3 machines (serving 6 flavors) that will carry “Berri Good” (Cholov Yisroel) Gelato and frozen yogurt, which will be self serve [...]

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Pre-Packaged Kosher Food Now Available at Union Station in Washington, DC

Wrap2Go that freshly-made, pre-packaged Sandwiches are for sale at: Tops Frozen Yogurt Shop inside Union Station in Washington, DC. This is located on the Street level on the train concourse near Gate A.

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“M Restaurant” Closes in Flatbush, Set to Reopen in Manhattan

Classy “M Restaurant” has closed it’s doors in Flatbush and will be reopening in Manhattan in the near future. No specific date or location has been announced for it’s reopening, but we look forward to trying it when it does. One of our Twitter followers was pretty upset upon the hearing of this place closing: [...]

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Kōsh: A New Kosher Restaurant in Stamford, CT

Located near the heart of downtown Stamford, CT, Kosh is a new meat restaurant appealing to the kosher carnivores in area: both the daytime business crowd, as well as the nighttime locals. The restaurant is entirely nut/peanut-free with many gluten-free options as well. Their featured dishes include Montréal style smoked meat (smoked and cured on [...]

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Recently Opened: Coffee Bean on UWS in NYC

In the past half year, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, the popular Los Angeles kosher cafe, has now opened 2 locations in NYC. This new location has been open for less than a month. This joins the Times Square Coffee Bean which opened this past summer. Comment below or Tweet us and let us know [...]

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Dougie’s: Closing in Brooklyn, Opening in Great Neck & Baltimore

After more than a decade on 18th Ave on the cusp of Borough Park, Dougie’s will be shutting its doors permanently this Sunday. While the restaurant was able to ride the coattails of the original Dougie’s on the Upper West Side, that too, along with the branch in Queens has since closed. It seems that [...]

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Coming Soon to the 5 Towns: Ahuva’s Grill

In the Peninsula Shopping Center in Hewlett, NY, a new Glatt Kosher restaurant is coming in replacing a non-kosher Pinatas Mexican Grill. The new restaurant is called Ahuva’s Grill, but we do not have any other details at the moment. We will update this post when we receive more information. [googleMap]map[/googleMap]

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