Russ & Daughters

Family-run appetizing shop on East Houston Street, selling smoked fish, herring and bagels with lox since 1914.

179 E Houston St, New York, NY 10002 · New York, NY

About Russ & Daughters

Russ & Daughters is an appetizing shop, the kind of store that sells the foods one eats with bagels: smoked fish, herring and cream cheese. Joel Russ began by selling herring from a pushcart, opened a shop, and in 1933 named it for his daughters Hattie, Ida and Anne. The fourth generation of the family runs it today and opened a sit-down cafe on Orchard Street in 2014. At the shop, a classic bagel with lox costs $17. The cafe takes no reservations.

#bagels
#smoked fish
#appetizing
#jewish food
#lower east side

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