FLORIDA
New South Florida Restaurant Alert: King David
King David Mediterranean, is anew Moroccan and French Restaurant. They opened 3 months ago in the Carlton Terrace Condominium. Click here to watch the Facebook Live video. They are open during the week from 10am - 10pm and they offer prepaid Friday Night Dinner and Shabbat lunch as well as catering. Shabbat meals start at $30 a person!
Located at: 10245 Collins Avenue, Bal Harbour, FL 335114. 305-397-8736 Under KM Supervision Pas Yisroel
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MED joins the list of Kosher establishments in Lincoln Eatery
MED is a Israeli inspired meat establishment. They offer a variety of Hummus plates, as well as kebabs, schnitzel and even vegetarian options. Everything is pretty reasonably priced so make sure to go check them out.
All kosher restaurants in The Lincoln eatery are under MDK Supervision, Rabbi Spitz. Located 723 Lincoln ln, N Miami Beach. Click here to see more.
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VISH, vegetarian, hummus restaurant,
well known in NY, opening in Surfside
Vish will be a chummus place bringing the spirit of Chummus Eliyahu which is a staple in the Israeli restaurant business to Florida.
Located at: 9454 Harding Avenue. More details to follow.
Click here to see the full post on our Facebook Group.
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Lenny's Deli in Miami Beach has sold to the owners of Pita Loca from South Beach.
No word yet on what they are planning to do in the new Miami Beach location. The store was located at: 4017 Prairie Avenue (off 41st Street), Miami Beach, FL 33140 Meanwhile, Lenny-Norma Reiz is back to solely concentrating on his Lenny's Pizza store, which is around the corner, especially with the "season" coming and tourists about to swarm the area. The colder it gets up North, the busy they are there. Click here to read more.
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New Restaurant on the 'Street's of Surfside
Chef David Benrey is opening up "Street Kitchen" in the former location of Backyard BBQ on Harding Avenue, which moved next door into a much bigger space.
It will consist of fried chicken, rotisserie chicken, braised meats, hamburgers and David’s food and famous specials. They will also have aged steaks. Click here to see the full post.
They hope to open in the beginning of 2020.
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Live Music now at Karne
Karne, opened in June in the former location of Fuego, which moved to North Miami Beach. Karne is still part of the family as it is owned by the father of Mark Aquinin of Fuego, They will now be having live music every Wednesday night! Bring your family and enjoy a night out
Located at: 3585 NE 207th St Ste C3, Aventura, FL 33180. Click here to see our recent post about them.
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DETROIT
New Restaurant Alert
Great news for Detroit foodies. Daniel Kohn, caterer extraordinaire and purveyor of fine sushi and great burgers at Kravings is opening a sit-down Italian American dairy restaurant...alcohol included! Can't wait for this...it will be so nice to have this option for the Detroit community. Stay tuned for more information. Click here to see the post and comments on our Facebook Page.
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CALIFORNIA
Pico Kosher Deli Closed for Remodel
We got the word from Lee Fisher our California corespondent, who reported that, "Pico kosher Deli is closed for the month of December due to remodeling. When they reopen they will be under the Rabbinical supervision of the Rabbinical Council Of California (RCC)". Stay tuned for more information.
Click here to see his post on our page.
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The Kosher Cookie Company now has a completely Pareve bakehouse dedicated to Cookies!
Bibi’s Bakery in Los Angeles launches the Kosher Cookie Company just in time for Chanukkah! Ten percent of the proceeds will be donated to Tzdakkah. The Kosher Cookie Company will ship nationwide. Click here to watch a video about them. Click here to visit their website.
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TORONTO, CANADA
Qool and Que closed temporarily
Both Qool and Que Restaurants have closed. The dairy restaurant offered sushi, salad, personal pizza, burgers, pasta and dessert. While the meat restaurant offered a variety of burgers and BBQ items. Stay tuned for more information.
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WINDSOR, CANADA
Not Such "Mazel Tov" news..
We just heard that dining at "Mazal Tov" Restaurant in Windsor, Canada (20 minutes south of Detroit) ended a couple of weeks ago. Owner Mazal and her team from now on will only be doing kosher catering after 23 years operating their dining establishment, albeit open only a couple of times a week. This is sad news for those in the area. We wish them much hatzlocha going forward. Click here to read more.
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SIDE DISHES:
Food for residents of Jersey City
We were all shaken to the core when news broke out of the despicable, cowardly, heinous targeted murder of those in a Jersey City kosher supermarket. This from my friend, David G. Greenfield, who is the CEO of Met Council. He writes: "The only kosher supermarket in Jersey City is gone. So, we at Met Council partnered with Mayor Stephen Fulop to bring free kosher food from our warehouse to residents of Jersey City today." Click here for the whole post.
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"Douglas Miguel Rodriguez did not always make sandwiches and stock shelves at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City.
Thousands of miles away, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, his hometown, Mr. Rodriguez was a middle-class family man who worked as a financial manager for an insurance company, his brother, William Rodriguez Barzola, said. But he lost his job when the company went under and Mr. Rodriguez, struggling financially, moved to New Jersey with his wife and daughter. His lack of English proved a barrier to a white-collar job in his adopted home, his brother said, so he had to settle for whatever he could get to pay his bills."- New York Times
A GoFundMe campaign, set up to benefit the family of Miguel Rodriguez has almost reached it's goal. The funds raised will help his family cope with the loss of their dear father and husband. Click here to see more on our Facebook page and for a link
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One of our members Chana Chava Mizrahi wrote "...I want to share a really incredible experience we had last Sunday at Upper Crust in Lakewood. My husband and I had just come from my husbands base to meet my grandmother for dinner. Hubby was in full Air Force uniform. As soon as we walked in the door, a Jewish waiter was all over us. He was very excited to see the uniform, and was like “WOW, that’s actually a real uniform!!! You actually serve!!! And you’re frum!!! That’s amazing!!! Thank you so much!!!!” He was super attentive throughout our meal, coming by every so often to make sure we were enjoying (we were! Their food is delicious) and ask if there was anything else he could do to make our meal any better. As we were finishing, he brought a HUGE dessert and told us it was on the house, and thank you so much for your service. It was so nice and felt so good to be so appreciated! My husband then went to pay our bill, and a frum man on line to pay HIS bill saw my husband in uniform, and approached him to shake his hand and thank him for his service. He then paid for our entire meal, including the tip!!!! It was a truly heartwarming incredible experience, at a great restaurant. I think I should make my husband wear his full uniform from now on when we go out "
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This is a crazy and remarkable story. A fire emergency broke out a wedding hall's kitchen last night and forced all the guests to evacuate. Happen to be that the Chickies Food Truck was at the wedding, setting up to provide the guests some snacks at what was supposed to have been at the end of the night.
But with hundreds of guests without any food, the Chickies Food Truck ramped it up and proceeded to cater the entire dinner for the guests.
Here was the scene that night, as the crowd was eating, enjoying and they even danced outside of the hall in honor of the chosson and kallah.
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Happy Chanukah from Great Kosher Restaurant Foodies. May your menorah shine as bright as your future.
Click here to see our very first Menorah Thread!
Here's a sushi menorah from Sushi Tokyo Kings Highway. Call 718-434-2444 to order.
Meanwhile, another reminder to never leave your candles unattended or near anything flammable. Make sure to check your smoke alarms.
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This week's Hot Topic...
SOUTH FLORIDA CANCELLATIONS and NO SHOWS
It's unfortunately that time of the year when South Florida restaurants have to deal with the ugly side of the industry where customers feel they have a right to make reservations and cancel them at the last minute or not even show up.For the love of God, if you have double booked a reservation or if you know you won't be able to make a reservation, do not let it just fly by, please call up and cancel ASAP with as much as time as possible. Click here to see the full post.
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Elan�Kornblum, also known as "The Restaurant Guy" is the Publisher and President of Great Kosher Restaurants International,
the award-winning, full-color worldwide publication and its accompanying website. �Elan�has covered the kosher restaurant
industry for the last 10 years and is the leading authority when it comes to kosher restaurants.
