Russ & Daughters

Russ and Daughters Cafe, now open at 127 Orchard St. on the Lower East Side

Know Before You Go: Delivery of packages less than 10 lbs is available in Manhattan (from Battery to 85th Street) for $13.50.

Delivery of packages less than 10 lbs is available in Manhattan (from Battery to 85th Street) for $13.50.

The new Russ & Daughters Cafe is modeled, to an almost obsessive degree, on the old Russ & Daughters shop a few blocks away on East Houston Street. In the center of the restaurant, sides of salmon and whole, golden-skinned whitefish with their slit bellies pointing up wait in a refrigerated case until they are sliced to order by a counter worker in a white jacket, just as at the original. But...

This family-run LES "landmark" dating to 1914 is in a "class by itself" thanks to the "new generation" there that's "keeping up the quality" with "drool-worthy displays" of "legendary offerings", notably sable and "lox to dream of", "herring perfection", "top-quality" caviar and more, from bagels and babka to dried fruits and chocolate; it's always a "mad scene", especially at holidays ("oy...

Russ & Daughters began as a push cart operation in 1908, and today is still family-run four generations later. They sell incomparable smoked fish and nova (similar to lox); try the tantalizing smoked-salmon medley package, which serves six and sells for about $89—and worth every penny.

Pull a numbered tab out of the dispenser and soak in the tradition. Specializes in caviar and smoked fish, with tasty bagels and cream cheese to make a full meal. Been around since 1914, still run by the original family.

Purveyors of the highest quality smoked fish, caviar, and specialty foods, Russ & Daughters is New York’s premier appetizing shop. Since 1914, this landmark New York institution has been continuously owned and operated by four generations of the Russ family. In the same spot on East Houston Street, and run by the same family, for nearly a century, Russ & Daughters continues to provide the...