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Take the Zabar’s Lobster Salad Poll!

Want to voice your opinion (or is it outrage?) at the Zabar’s lobster née crayfish salad scandal?
Here’s your chance. Go to the West Side Rag to vote for your favorite new name for this now-notorious seafood concoction.

Brooklyn Larder vs. Zabars: Gorgeous Food and High Prices or Gorgeous Food and Lower Prices

Brooklyn Larder, a carefully curated Park Slope fine foods shop, is gorgeous to behold. The place is operated by the same folks who run Franny’s, the popular Park Slope pizza spot.
At Brooklyn Larder, there are tantalizing displays of cheese, artfully arranged in a towering mound. There are garlicky ramps to take home (mine [...]

Upper West Side: Zabar’s Gives Valentine’s Day a Jewish Twist

Chocolate babka? Blackout cake? Zabar’s, the Upper West Side fancy food emporium, is offering up a range of Valentine’s goodies—from chocolates to cookies. But if you want a Jewish theme to your Valentine’s Day celebration, the Jewish-style deli is enhancing the traditional mix of chocolate roses and heart-shaped confections with babka and bagels. Yes, dahlink, [...]

Recipe: Potato Latkes for Hanukkah from Zabar’s

Everyone has a favorite potato latke recipe for Hanukkah. Here’s one from Zabar’s, supplied by a grandma, of course. A couple of modern-day shortcuts that Bubbie might not have approved of—the potatoes aren’t peeled and they’re grated in a food processor.
Grandma Bertha’s Latkes
Andrea Watman
INGREDIENTS
4 Idaho Potatoes (Washed but not peeled)
1 Large Yellow Onion
3 Large Eggs
1-2 [...]

Upper West Side: Zabar’s Jumps the High Holidays Gun

Who can think of shtetl food like brisket and stuffed cabage when it’s 110 degrees in the shade? But for Zabar’s, the venerable Jewish food emporium on Broadway, it’s apparently not too early to begin urging you to plan your New Year’s or Yom Kippur Break Fast menu. So if cooking is not your thing [...]

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Take the Zabar’s Lobster Salad Poll!

Brooklyn Larder vs. Zabars: Gorgeous Food and High Prices or Gorgeous Food and Lower Prices

Upper West Side: Zabar’s Gives Valentine’s Day a Jewish Twist

Recipe: Potato Latkes for Hanukkah from Zabar’s

Upper West Side: Zabar’s Jumps the High Holidays Gun

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