Rosh Hashanah starts this Wednesday night, September 8th. Let Russ & Daughters make the Jewish New Year a happy, prosperous, and EASY one for you.

Invited to someone’s house and don’t know what to bring? Give one of our outrageously delicious honey cakes and/or one of our beautiful dried fruit baskets with honey roasted pecans.

Dreading the [...]

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The “Sugar Rush” column on Serious Eats is always a treat. Earlier this week, Kathy YL Chan wrote there about Bagel Pudding, a long-time homemade staple of the Russ & Daughters sweets counter. Since our bagels are baked fresh every morning, by night-time, if there happen to be any left, they are best enjoyed toasted, [...]

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Video from a recent visit to Russ & Daughters.
Jennifer and Ben came to Russ & Daughters the other day for the first time, with tired feet, empty stomachs and a special book in tow. Originally published in 1959, the book was New York Places and Pleasures by Kate Simon. The 4th edition, which had come [...]

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“Is everything ok?” asked the passerby at the sight of shuttered gates and lights off at Russ & Daughters this morning, his voice expressing mild panic as if he had just stumbled upon an unfortunate accident or was shaking someone out of a bad dream.  While we were touched by the outpouring of concern- he [...]

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Watching the World Cup today? Pick up some New Catch Holland Herring at Russ & Daughters!

Check out some more photos from the Russ & Daughters Herring Pairing and a ShootBooth slideshow if you want a demonstration of how to eat the Holland Herring in a most traditional manner.

ShootBooth @ The Herring Pairing from jacob krupnick [...]

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Do you have a longer lunch break on this beautiful day? No work today at all? Stop by for a sandwich. Someone, for example, is about to eat this Super Heebster.
(If you don’t have time to visit for lunch, maybe we’ll see you later. Russ & Daughters is open tonight until 8:00 p.m.)
- Jen Snow

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The details of this amazing dish, prepared by Wylie Dufresne and Jon Bignelli:
Smoked New Catch Holland herring, nasturtium gazpacho, cucumber, hazelnut
Soup base made with nasturtium flowers, breadcrumbs, vegetable stock (white grape juice, shallots, garlic, hazelnut oil, and a little butter).
Herring has been lightly cured, smoked and then frozen using liquid nitrogen.  [...]

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New Catch Holland Herring

All reports indicate that the Russ & Daughters Herring Pairing with Wylie Dufresne and John Zorn at Astor Center was a great success! Photos, anecdotes, and a ShootBooth slideshow coming soon!

Event photographs: Belathée Photography
Photo booth portraits: ShootBooth

- Jen Snow

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We are honored that the Super Heebster was chosen for New York Magazine’s list of “Best Sandwiches in New York.” In this week’s issue, Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld produced an epic survey of sandwiches all over NYC.  At #50, the Super Heebster; they wrote:
#50 Super Heebster: Russ & Daughters
Introduced to a national audience on [...]

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The current issue of Edible Manhattan includes a feature about Russ & Daughters, and a Russ & Daughters Classic bagel and lox (this one with Gaspe Nova and scallion cream cheese) on the cover. The feature, “Back of the House: Russ & Daughters - Where appetizing is both an adjective and a noun,” was written [...]

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