Best Appetizing Shop in New York · New York, NY
Russ & Daughters has been selling "bagels & lox since 1914," when Joel Russ turned a herring pushcart into a Lower East Side appetizing shop. When he made his three daughters full partners, he renamed it Russ & Daughters — believed to be the first American business to put "& Daughters" on the sign — and four generations of the family have run it since.
"Appetizing" is the old Jewish-American art of the things you eat with bagels: hand-sliced smoked and cured fish, cream cheeses, caviar, and babka. The tiny Houston Street counter still does it the slow way, by hand.
The family has since added a sit-down café, a Brooklyn shop and nationwide shipping, but the 1914 storefront remains a New York landmark — and the 2025 Centurion Award winner.
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Fourth-generation family appetizing shop on East Houston Street, slicing smoked salmon and selling herring, caviar, and bagels since 1914.
Yes — Russ & Daughters is the 2025 Centurion Award winner for Best Appetizing Shop in New York, a verified, criteria-based award. Named best appetizing shop in New York for 2025 for four generations of family ownership and a smoked-salmon counter that has anchored the Lower East Side for over a century.
Russ & Daughters is in New York, NY.
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