New York: Russ and Daughters Cafe. The Russ and Daughters specialty food shop on
the Lower East Side of New York has been the purveyor of the highest quality
smoked fish, caviar and specialty foods since 1914. This New York institution has been run by
four generations of the Russ family, and is a old-world landmark shop. A year ago the descendants Joshua Russ Tupper
and his cousin Niki Russ Federman opened the Russ and Daughters Cafe, a short
walk around the corner from the shop. Nice and airy the cafe serves classic
delicious smoked fish dishes as well as pickled herring, latkes,
and caviar. The extensive and delicious egg dishes range from; eggs with lox
and onions to soft scrambled eggs with caviar, and more. You can also order open-faced
sandwiches, soups, salads, and again caviar with all the accouterments.
Joshua Russ Tupper stand
besides a photograph of his mother and aunts and grandfather
Russ and Daughters Cafe –
Borscht
Served chilled: beets,
sour cream, dill with pumpernickel
Contessanally – Taste
Stars ***
Russ and Daughters Cafe –
Shrubs – Beet Cherry Plum
Shrubs are the equivalent
to the process of pickling – invented as a way to preserve fruit with vinegar,
shrubs have been used to flavor drinks in America since the Eighteenth century
Contessanally – Taste
Stars ** must be an acquired taste?
Russ and Daughters Cafe –
Super Heebster Bagel Toast
whitefish and baked
salmon salad, Wasabi-infused fish roe, horseradish dill cream cheese, bagel
toast
Contessanally – Taste
Stars ***** so good I could have
eaten two
Russ and Daughters Cafe
Russ and Daughters Cafe –
Lox, Eggs and Onions
toasted shissel rye
Contessanally – Taste
Stars ***
Russ and Daughters Cafe –
Halvah Ice Cream
Halvah, sesame, salted
caramel
Contessanally - Taste Stars
* - the ice ream is far
too sweet and the texture is too “splintered”
“A meal without a sweet
dish is like a story without a moral.”
Yiddish idiom
Russ and Daughters Cafe -
The Kitchen