When the pandemic cut hours at her new dream job at Chez Panisse, Sara Eisen launched her babka business. Eisen is mainly keeping it traditional, with cinnamon and chocolate — using two local brands, Guittard and Tcho — but for Hanukkah 2020, she made a black sesame babka for Chez...
This kosher grocery store features a butcher counter, sizable wine cellar, and a (new - Spring 2020) cafe serving deli fare. Menu includes pastrami, pulled brisket, house-made corned beef, pickles, and more.
According to an article by Alix Wall in the 6/26/20 issue of "J. The Jewish News of Northern California," Hella Bagels is a home-based startup in Oakland, where chef-owner Blake Hunter can make only 100 bagels at a time, which he does Sunday mornings. Hunter delivers in the East Bay...
Started in April 2020, Ethel's Bagels has nine flavors of bagels. Bagels and shmears. "A West Coast bagel with an East Coast attitude." Delivery is available two days a week in Sonoma County and one day per week in Marin County, San Francisco, and the East Bay
Offerings started with pastrami, corned beef and half-sour garlic pickles, and then the team branched out to matzo ball soup, challah French toast. Pickup and delivery orders are available in the South Bay through DoorDash and Grub Hub, and occasionally in the East Bay. Connected with JW Catering in Sunnyvale,...
Modern California-Israeli food, and also rugelach and chocolate babka. (Also halva/pistachio babka, but that’s not so Ashkenazi)
Opened May 2020. "Elevated Jewish-American Comfort Food." Kreplach, sea salt knishes, brisket dumpling soup, sweet kugel, blintzes. Pickup menu is at https://incubatorseries.square.site/schmaltz?fbclid=IwAR1uLaiZ3QIFbBRqJeLSg4ymKOsZCxCqM0YpjV0FVaZ8xZEwMmuAr_XTJVk Order via UberEats, Caviar and Doordash...
Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen is dedicated to building community through traditional Jewish comfort food. Founded in San Francisco’s Mission District, Wise Sons pairs classic Jewish recipes with the best Californian ingredients to make delicious deli fare that would make your bobeh proud. Numerous locations in San Francisco, plus Wise Sons...
We strive to make the highest quality bagels using traditional bagel making techniques and the best ingredients. Our bagels are made with fresh flour, whole grains, and fermented with a sourdough starter. We use local and organic produce, dairy, and grains. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
Bushrod neighborhood favorite, Nick’s Pizza and Bakery, recently launched a new breakfast menu available Fridays and Saturdays from 8-11 a.m. Baker-owner Nick Yapor Cox has quietly rolled out his own take on New York-style bagels, which use the bakery’s signature sourdough starter for its dough, which is then hand-formed, boiled...
SPECIALIZING IN SAVORY PASTRIES BAKED IN A BRICK OVEN & FAMILY RECIPES FROM OVER 100 YEARS OLD A San Francisco bakery specializing in freshly baked pastries. Our journey began with great Grandfather Mosheh who traveled from Iraq to Israel carrying with him a wealth of delicious recipes. We wish to offer our...
20th Century Cafe... ... was conceived by owner and chef Michelle Polzine out of years of hard work in front of the oven, thoughts about food, old movies, and drunken discussions about the future (and the past). Searching through vintage cookbooks and traveling through the cites of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague brought...
A wholesale Jewish bakery serving the Bay Area for over 50 years — making every day a challah-day. Grand Bakery is a storied food institution that brings delicious, traditionally Jewish goods to a broad and diverse community. We've been baking in Oakland since 1959, and after a brief hiatus, we've...
Who would have guessed a random Cambodian-owned cafe on a quiet block in Emeryville would put so much effort into their bagels? With this bagel’s ideal texture, Dee Spot definitely deserves a closer look.
NEW YORK-STYLE BAGELS...IN THE BAY AREA • HAND-MADE, CERTIFIED ORGANIC, BOILED & BAKED LOCALLY • Our hand-made, 48-hour, fermented bagels have won internal New York Times tasting competitions and, whenever we can, our ingredients are sourced from local shops in Northern California. If we don't make your favorite bagel, it's...
… AT MARLA BAKERY, EVERYTHING WE DO STARTS IN THE KITCHEN. MARLA is an Acronym composed of the first letters of the names of our family members who taught us to cook and bake. Food does not spring forth from the ether, it is informed and shaped by the...
California inspired mediterranean cooking with drinks to match from San Francisco natives and industry professionals.
Rachel B. Gross is the John and Marcia Goldman Professor of American Jewish Studies in the department of Jewish studies at San Francisco State University. She is a scholar of religious studies whose work focuses on the lives, spaces, and objects of twentieth-century and contemporary American Jews. She is currently...
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