A churro, sometimes referred to as a Spanish doughnut, is a fried-dough pastry based snack popular in
Spain, France and Latin America. New Yorkers have long seen them being sold in Washington Heights, and in many subway stations, albeit never kosher.
They are usually eaten for breakfast and dipped in either hot chocolate or “cafe con leche” (coffee with milk.) I first discovered them on the B & Q trains’ platform at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station in Brooklyn, where a Mexican woman would stand with her cart and sell them daily. I always wondered what they were, but didn’t dare try one of these “long doughnut sticks” that she had probably baked in her treif kitchen.
Well, like many other previously forbidden foods, Jews can now enjoy churros at the newly kosher Le Churro on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. Le Churro’s menu features many different sizes of churros, churro sundaes, churro pizza, coffee, espresso, and a chocolate bar.
If your pants weren’t tight enough from all these 3 day chagim we just had, they are about to get even tighter!
Le Churro is under the kashrus supervision of Rabbi Aaron D. Mehlman of National Kosher Supervision.
This is Dairy? Is it Cholov Yisroel/Pas Yisroel?
Unsure if it’s dairy. If I had to guess I’d say yes.
Also, based on this hashgacha’s other clients, I’m going to say not Cholov/Pas Yisroel
The plain churros are pareve and all the fillings and dips are dairy. I was there yesterday and they are delicious!
Little correction to the article’s author: churros are not treiff because of the kitchen they were produced but because they are fried in lard that is pork fat that happens to be the liquid that reaches the best temperature for frying anything like chicken nuggets, French fries, fish sticks, lamb cotelets, etc. Churros need to be hard and crunchy outside but smooth and soft inside. To dip them in a thick hot chocolate is like stepping in heaven.
yum yum yum!
I’d expect to see this on the West coast rather than NYC.
Oh gosh, churros are fabulous, I make them! But nice to be able to not make them and just get a few already cooked! Don’t need any dip. They are wonderful all by themselves.
This sounds fantastic!
Exciting! Now I don’t have to make them myself
checked this out this week. yum!
oooh yum!
[…] Upper East Side residents and workers & visitors at Mt. Sinai hospital will surely miss this quaint establishment, and those looking for kosher dairy food in the area will have to head down to 2d and 82nd for Va Bene, or venture across Central Park to some of the West Side dairy restaurants. In the meantime, those looking for a quick fix can satisfy their sweet tooth with a Spanish style donut at the recently-turned-kosher Le Churro. […]