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In this week’s Jewish Week newspaper, I wrote an article about the deluge in kosher restaurants in NYC focusing on high-end burgers. (Click here to read the article). The catalyst behind the article were my recent meals at Amsterdam Burger Co. (ABC), Le Marais, and Mr. Broadway, coupled with the news that Teaneck’s Gotham Burger [...]

Ari White, the grillmaster behind Hakadosh BBQ, is bringing his Texas Roadside Smokehouse BBQ to streetfairs across New York this Spring and Summer. Those street fairs have historically been void of kosher fare as this will fill a void in the NYC kosher landscape. This ‘pop-up’ kosher establishment, if we can call it that, holds [...]

The relatively new but successful Teaneck eatery, Gotham Burger, is opening a 2nd location in Manhattan’s Upper West Side neighborhood, only blocks from the new Amsterdam Burger Co. (owned by the same owners as Mike’s Bistro). According to Great Kosher Restaurants: They are turning the place into a sports bar/burger place with a VIP lounge. [...]

Exclusive Story: While it is no secret that there have been many changes to the kosher scene in midtown NYC over the past year and a half, this secret has been kept under wraps for a few months now. Schnitzel Express, the relatively new but successful schnitzel sandwich restaurant near Times Square, is currently expanding next [...]

This week, a new kosher French restaurant has opened in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, Chagall Bistro. In an interview with the owner, Dan Halimi, discussed with YeahThatsKosher about his new restaurant. We purchased this restaurant a year ago, fixing it up, and making it a more upscale eatery. Being Jewish and from France, [...]

We announced not long ago that the owners of the Prime Grill restaurants, which include Solo, would be launching a new dairy restaurant, a take-out pizza joint. Not only is this the first dairy location the group has launched, but it’s the first one that doesn’t even have seating. It is also the first and [...]

If the flurry of recent restaurant openings and moves by the Prime Hospitality Group didn’t get your head spinning yet (Prime at the Bentley / Prime Grill moving), well, it will now. In their first foray into the dairy scene, Prime is opening a small pizza joint, Pizza da Solo, a takeout-only pizzeria making 10-inch [...]

For someone that has never lived in, and rarely visits, New York City, Sacred Chow offers the quintessential NY vibe that I hoped I would find when I came to town. The kosher-vegan restaurant is nestled between a shoe repair store and a hookah store at 227 Sullivan St in the SoHo neighborhood.  I walked [...]

For years, my wife and I would travel the world, ogle funky non-kosher restaurants, and wish that such a place would exist kosher, and in NYC. Well, such a place has arrived in Jezebel. We were invited by one of the owners, Henry, to dine and experience Jezebel for ourselves. Located in trendy Soho on West [...]

Updates for restaurants in NYC, Baltimore, Miami, Memphis, Las Vegas, and Palo Alto. New York City A new upscale steakhouse will be moving into the former home of Le Carne Grill: La Brochette, which is slated to open in Spring 2013 at 340 Lexington Avenue. There are plans for a possible roof deck, and a [...]

After 13 years at their beautiful location on the east side (60 East 49th street), The Prime Grill will be moving to a larger location a few blocks away to 25 West 56th Street, 7 blocks north, formerly home to the old Beacon Restaurant & Bar. You can still eat at the current location until [...]

Perhaps Pitopia wasn’t doing well selling just falafel, hummus, and fried eggplant? The store recently upgraded its offerings to include Shwarma, Schnitzel, Hot Dogs, and Sausages. They’ve added sushi to the menu as well. (Who doesn’t love sushi b’pita?) We’ll investigate and find out if it’s good enough to consider a lunchtime visit. Click here [...]

The Middle Eastern kosher eatery in midtown Manhattan, Pitopia, will be offering free falafel sandwiches all day tomorrow in store: Monday, 11/26/12 until they close at 11pm.  

Review by Moshe B. I recently had the opportunity of dining with a colleague at Prime @ the Bentley. Walking into the restaurant we were impressed by the thoughtful decor and stunning views. Upon the servers recommendation we both ordered the Bentley Rack & fries on the side. We were surprised when our food was brought out [...]

Mr. Broadway has been a staple in New York's Kosher scene on Broadway for over 20 years. After a redesign process that had the restaurant nearly closed over the Sukkot holiday, they've just unveiled their new redesign … and it's beautiful. Highlights include a prominent in-restaurant sushi + wine bar, digital menu screens for take [...]

Good news for Washington Heights residents! Carlos & Gabby's of Riverdale has announced that it will be starting FREE delivery to Washington Heights by early November. No specific date has been set yet. In a conversation with the manager at the Riverdale C&G's, I was notified that the delivery will likely be 2 days a [...]

The 1st Annual Kosher Grilling Challenge is taking place this Sunday, September 23rd at 1pm during the 92Y’s Street Festival.   Fairway Market and Smokey Joe’s will be hosting the challenge.  Participants submitted their favorite kosher recipe for grilled burgers, chicken, and veggies.  Creators of the top three recipes have been invited to the street festival for an in person grilling [...]

"Prime at The Bentley", from The Prime Hospitality Group – owners of Prime Grill, Solo, Prime KO, and Prime Butcher Baker, will be a pop-up kosher restaurant opening on the rooftop of the east side Bentley Hotel, opening on September 30th, just in time for the Sukkot holiday. The hotel rooftop will house a massive [...]

There are 100+ Kosher restaurants in the U.S. where you can use Seamless.com to order your kosher lunch, dinner, or any other meal to your office or home. New users can sign up and receive $5 off their first order.  Here's the current list of Kosher Restaurants on Seamless.com by city: (note: hashgachas will vary [...]

Grill 212 is a new meat restaurant on the Upper West Side opening today starting at lunch time. It is a Middle Eastern fare style restaurant and according to their Facebook page, will be open weeknights until 11pm.  Under the hashgcha of Rabbi Avrohom Marmorstein. If you get to try them this week, please comment [...]

Gemstone Catering, the company behind "Got Cholent", Is launching NY's first KOSHER "Pop-up" BBQ Restaurant: The Smokehouse, which will set up shop in the parking lot of the Riverdale Temple between Sunday, August 5 through Thursday 9th from 4-10pm. Chef/Owner of Gemstone, Ari White, "just wanted to show all these 'Yankees' that BBQ does not [...]

This week starts the 20th annual NYC Restaurant Week, sponsored by American Express (offering cash back when using your AMEX card and signing up), which is actually more like 3 weeks (20 days) in NYC, and 12 days in LA. Many people having been tweeting us (via @YeahThatsKosher) and asking us on Facebook, which of [...]

Kosher fine dining enthusiasts have been anxiously awaiting today's launch of the newest of NYC kosher restaurants, Jezebel. Located in Soho, this is a "sophisticated, modern American fare 'that happens to be kosher'," according to owners Henry Stimler and Menachem Senderowicz. Award-winning chef Bradford Thompson put together their eclectic and diverse menu.  According to Gothamist.com: [...]

With the closing of multiple kosher restaurants in the past few months in Midtown Manhattan (J2 Pizza, Kosher Delight, Clubhouse Cafe, Rosa's Pizza), we realized that many locals and tourists were confused about their Kosher Restaurant options in Midtown Manhattan. The good news is, there are MANY, so don't fret. Consult our quick reference guide [...]

In a conversation yesterday with the manager at Clubhouse Cafe, located right in heart of Manhattan in Times Square, it was confirmed that the restaurant will be closing this week, serving its last customers this Thursday night, 5/24/12. The restaurant, with same ownership as Le Marais across the street, is not closing due to poor [...]

Since the unfortunate closure of the Milk Street Cafe in the Financial District, many who work on Wall Street have been without a Kosher lunch option. As you may remember, the owner of the cafe protested not only Occupy Wall Street's activities outside his storefront, but also the NYPD baracades that made it difficult for [...]

UPDATE: Reopened. Just because it's Kosher doesn't mean it's cleaner. That's certainly the case with Shalom Chai Pizza at 357 Grand Street in the Lower East Side, New York City. The kosher eatery, with decent reviews on MenuPages, was closed down after 75 violations were found by the City Health Department today. Some of the [...]

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 [...]

  Over the past 2 weeks I have eaten at "Burgers" (formerly Burgers Bar) twice, with 2 different results. Firstly, it's worth noting that the place looks nearly identical to Burgers Bar, that nary a item has been changed to the restaurant, which is fine, other than the menu board.   The positive things I [...]

Contributed by Estee Lavitt (@EsteeLavitt)   I went to Bravo Pizza a few weeks ago. The pizza was delicious but the service was really not up to par. The store itself is pretty small. The staff was very friendly and nice, but unfortunately a little slow and unable to handle the crowd. I don't think [...]

Heading into my second year attending KFWE (the Kosher Food & Wine Experience), I was excited for a night of good food and good people. Many others were also excited by the huge selection of kosher wines from around the world, but not being a wine aficionado myself, I left the wine tasting to the [...]

In the past few days, a new Kosher Pizza place appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, in the heart of Midtown Manhattan on Broadway and W37th st. Bravo Pizza, a long time next door neighbor of Kosher Delight, has decided to go Kosher, kashering its entire store, now with an OK Supervision (Cholov Yisroel). The restaurant [...]

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: [...]

According to this source, even though some of Milk Street’s business has bounced back since the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street protests began a few months ago, many of the NYPD barricades still remain on and near Wall Street despite the closing of Zuccotti Park as a campsite for the movement. Marc Epstein, the [...]

UPDATE: Reiu is no longer Kosher. This came as news to me. Apparently there has been a kosher kiosk operating inside of the SONY building for some time now (at least that’s what their website claims). Rieu Cafe is a pretty little stand in the SONY building lobby with high end coffee, bagel sandwiches, and [...]

The world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, has thousands of kosher keeping fans attending its Knicks (well maybe not this year) and Rangers games, yet has yet to offer any sort of kosher fare in the arena … until now. It has been confirmed that Carlos & Gabby’s will be operating Kosher stands within [...]

Soom Soom is open at Lexington Ave and 56th st. in NYC. Personally, I think it’s the best kosher falafel in New York. The salad bar has a larger selection than the uptown sister store – this includes, among other things, beets, guacamole and fried cauliflower. The staff was friendly. Service was good and fast. [...]

Click here for: Restaurant Info Sushein is a brand new Kosher sushi restaurant officially opening today in downtown Manhattan (NYC) near City Hall. What makes Sushein unique is that they are the 1st kosher sushi restaurant in the U.S. to have a conveyor belt in the restaurant deliver sushi to its patrons. I have seen [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

According to the Vaad Harabonim of Queens (VHQ), they are no longer giving the kashrut supervision for Subway located at 141-24 Jewel Ave in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, NY. It seems that over the past couple years, the various “Kosher” Subway restaurants in the NY area have been dropping like flies. The Kosher Subways on [...]

Random Kosher News: Kosher Food Available @ Wimbledon from Chabad in London Kosher Restaurant Closings: Prime Sushi (Both Locations) in Miami, FL H&H Bagels in NYC Shalom Bombay in Teaneck, NJ Kosher Restaurant Openings: Milk Street Café in NYC on Wall St. Cinnabon in Tel Aviv Maoz Vegetarian in NYC on the UES Soom Soom [...]

Where one kosher eatery fails, another swoops in to save the day… we hope. Kolette’s Kitchen on Lexington and 56th Street will soon be a second location for the vegetarian falafel shop Soom Soom. Their first location is on the UWS. The new location is set to open within 2 months. Thank you to @Koshertopia [...]

Click on the deal below to purchase it! $12 for a homemade waffle with two scoops of gelato, toppings and two hot beverages at Screme Gelato Bar (a $22 value). Deal offer ends Sunday night @ Midnight eastern time. http://www.screme.com 176 W 94th St New York, NY 10025 (212) 663-1362

CLICK HERE for the MASTER LIST of 2013 Passover Restaurants   The only comprehensive International list of Kosher Restaurants open for Passover* *If we are missing a restaurant that you are aware of that will be open this year, please comment below and email: YeahThatsKosher.com at Gmail.com Oh, Jews. How we love to eat! Even [...]

Click on the Deal to purchase! Smokey Joe’s BBQ — Teaneck, NJ — 40% off Spend $12, Get $20 worth of food Deal expires at Midnight tonight. http://smokeyjoesbbq.com 494 Cedar Lane Teaneck , NJ 07666 (201) 836-RIBS – Bistro 1310 — Brooklyn, NY — 50% off Spend $18, Get $36 worth of food Deal expires [...]

Last month on February 22, 2011, I attended the Kosher Food and Wine Experience otherwise known as KFWE 2011. Needless to say It was an experience for the palette. Upon arriving at Chelsea Piers I was greeted by a sea of yarmulkes and sheitels. I was pushed and cut in front of several times while [...]

The details are not yet available, but we will continue to update this post as the details become clear. It appears to be a crack down by the NYC Health Dept. h/t to @Koshertopia for reporting this.

Whether you’re a New York native or just visiting, everyone knows that one of the highlights of a night out here is the availability of Kosher restaurants. For a special occasion and a memorable experience, you should consider eating at Noi Due, located right near Lincoln Center. Aside from its unpronounceable name (try getting someone [...]