B&H Dairy
Kosher restaurant · East Village
127 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003
Highlights
This cozy, old-school kosher diner serves up comforting classics like borscht and matzo ball soup in a charmingly intimate setting.
This cozy, old-school kosher diner serves up comforting classics like borscht and matzo ball soup in a charmingly intimate setting.
"This enduring Jewish dairy luncheonette — open since 1938 — is now run by Polish Catholic Ola Smigielska and Egyptian Muslim Fawzy Abdelwahed, and remains a pescatarian and vegetarian wonder in the neighborhood. Dishes include tuna melts on challah, cheese pierogis, omelets, and berry-bulging blintzes. And let’s not forget its amazing vegetarian soups: Mushroom barley, cabbage, and matzoh ball are favorites. Served with buttered challah made on the premises, they’re bargain meal mainstays." - Eater Staff, Robert Sietsema
"An 80-year-old Yiddish luncheonette known for its kosher dairy menu featuring latkes, borscht, cheese blintzes, and challah french toast. A simple and satisfying dining experience without meat."
"B&H has been going at it since 1938, so it’s no surprise that the restaurant has its classic, non-nonsense recipe for potato pancakes down. Eat them with apple sauce and sour cream." - Eater Staff
"B&H Dairy is the kind of place you go if you want to feel like a New Yorker. Not an NYU student or a lived-here-for-three-years New Yorker, but a guy reading a newspaper in a diner in an ’80s cop movie New Yorker. This cash-only spot is mostly just one long counter, and you order from the guy who makes your food. The menu is extensive, but you can’t go wrong with one of the soups or giant sandwiches. Come here for a quick breakfast or lunch where you can pretend to be some OG East Villager before you head off to class or work." - hannah albertine, matt tervooren
"B&H Dairy, a tiny kosher spot on 2nd Ave., is the kind of place where you can walk in with today's copy of The Times under your arm, make conversation with the people next to you, and be transported to a previous East Village era. It’s been around since the 1940s, and there’s something about eating an overstuffed tuna sandwich on their airy, baked-in-house challah bread, or eight perfect pierogies, that leads to thoughts about how everyone from Lou Reed to Keith Haring might have refueled here, after a late-night show around the corner. The menu of diner and Eastern European classics is long, but it’s dwarfed by the sense of pride and loyalty that long-time East Villagers have for this place." - sonal shah, bryan kim, neha talreja, willa moore, will hartman
