Russ & Daughters

"Both LES and Navy Yard locations of Russ & Daughters are open for carryout. They request that you call in advance to place your lox and schmear order over the phone, and if you’d prefer delivery, you can order from their Jewish Museum store on here. Also - Russ & Daughters ships care packages nationwide, and your friend in another state could really use a dozen bagels right now." - hannah albertine

"“Russ & Daughters is a classic. I like the one on Houston, on the weekend, for their smoked fish, pickled fish, herring, and so on. On the weekend, sometimes we go there, and you can see them slicing your salmon. I'll have smoked salmon, some whitefish salad, bagels, and sometimes caviar, and I’m pretty happy with that. I don’t need much. The quality of the smoked fish that they have is very good.”" - bryan kim

"Home to one of city’s quintessential bagel and lox experiences, Russ & Daughters is delivering that experience to New Yorkers’ homes. The shop offers pickup and courier delivery services at its Lower East Side location: Pickup orders should be placed two hours in advance and courier delivery orders 24 hours in advance by calling 212-475-4880 x1. The LES location is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays. In Brooklyn, orders can be placed through Caviar, and shipping is available through Goldbelly." - Carla Vianna

"The Russ & Daughters bagel experience should not exist without smoked fish. Please, we repeat, please, order a bagel with some sort of fish topping or at least a side of their excellent hot-smoke cold-smoke salmon combination dip to dunk your bagel into. The near-translucent nova at this 1914 Lower East Side appetizing institution is sliced so fine that a puppet master could use it as a backdrop for casting shadows. Russ & Daughters’ white-coated staff expertly layer the soft, pliable fish drapings onto sturdy, comparatively small bagels, which act as the ideal mattress for all of the toppings. Russ & Daughters also has three cafés with seating: in Hudson Yards, on the LES, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard." - willa moore, neha talreja, hannah albertine, will hartman

"Another favorite spot for a classic bagel with cream cheese and smoked salmon combo." - Nancy DePalma