russ&daughters

The Russ & Daughters cafe is happening after all. A liquor license application briefly appeared on Community Board 3's agenda this month and then was quickly pulled.  At the time, a spokesperson for the appetizing shop told us news...

Community Board 3 is out with the agenda for its September liquor license hearing. There are a number of intriguing items, including a possible (emphasis on "possible") project from Russ & Daughters, the legendary appetizing store. We're told not...

At Russ & Daughters, they're gearing up for one of the legendary appetizing store's signature events: New Catch Holland Herring Season.  The mild, young herrings are generally eaten whole; you hold them by the tail and drop the little...

Get those resumes ready! Here's a very intriguing job posting on Craigslist: Find out why Anthony Bourdain calls Russ & Daughters his "favorite place in New York," by joining our famous front of the house team. You will have the...

A few more details from last night's CB3/liquor licensing hearing.  The owners of "Preserve 24," the bi-level, 24 hour Argentinian cafe/bar taking over 175-177 East Houston Street, made a return engagement.  The community board approved this concept back in...

Anyone who's addicted to Russ & Daughters, knows Herman Vargas (see photo), the legendary appetizing store's longtime manager. If you head over to the shop's blog, Lox Populi, you'll see plenty of photos from last week's celebration honoring Vargas's...

I rushed over to Russ & Daughters today to sample the delicious new catch Holland herring. The famed appetizing store's co-owner, Niki Russ Federman, says it's a bit like cherry blossom season - and just about as fleeting. Every...

Perhaps the Lower East Side's most revered food institution, appetizing store Russ & Daughters has been in business since 1914. Today a new generation of the Russ family sells a wide variety of smoked salmon, sturgeon, herring, sable, etc....