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February 6, 2025

The Bygone Dairy Restaurants of Jewish New York

“A refreshing change of pace for the ordinary Yankee ‘meat and potatoes’ diet.”

A century ago, New York City was home to scores, if not hundreds, of kosher dairy restaurants, serving blintzes, smoked fish, and other traditional Ashkenazi fare. Although there are still several Jewish establishments that, observing the laws of kashrut, serve dairy products but no meat, there may be only one in the old model: B&H Kosher Dairy, which has been open in Manhattan’s Lower East Side since 1938. Hallel Yadin writes:

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