EatsNew YorkNY-Excerpts

Russ & Daughter's in the Lower East Side

The Bay's best newsletter for underground events & news

The above photo is from Greenwich Village Daily Photo


Ok so you moved to New York from ________ and back there you really didn’t know a lot of Jewish people.  Sure you went to that Rubinstein kid’s bar mitzvah in 7th grade, but other than him and a couple Chinese kids, your home town was as WASPy as it gets.  Now you’re in NY dating a Jew, you’re about to meet his/her parents for the first time and you wanna make a good impression.  That’s where Russ & Daughter’s comes in.  Open since 1914 and having been run by four generations of the Russ Family, this is as old school New York Jew as it gets.  Here’s a tip from a fucking Jew (me) to someone who’s fucking a Jew (you); buy your possible future in-laws some of R&D’s famous bagels and get some lox, herring, and cream cheese (tofu cream cheese if they’re vegan) to go along with them.  As long as you don’t say, 'œI hear this is what you people eat,' you should be golden.

Russ & Daughter’s Bagels
179 E Houston @ Orchard St.

Previous post

Lansky's: The Best Deal in Manhattan?

Next post

Broke-Ass of the Week - Gene Miguel


Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap

Stuart Schuffman, aka Broke-Ass Stuart, is a travel writer, poet, TV host, activist, and general shit-stirrer. His website BrokeAssStuart.com is one of the most influential arts & culture sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and his freelance writing has been featured in Lonely Planet, Conde Nast Traveler, The Bold Italic, Geek.com and too many other outlets to remember. His weekly column, Broke-Ass City, appears every other Thursday in the San Francisco Examiner. Stuart’s writing has been translated into four languages. In 2011 Stuart created and hosted the travel show Young, Broke, and Beautiful on IFC and in 2015 he ran for Mayor of San Francisco and got nearly 20k votes.

He's been called "an Underground legend": SF Chronicle, "an SF cult hero":SF Bay Guardian, and "the chief of cheap": Time Out New York.