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Forbes
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Where To Find Passover Specials In New York City
Mexican matzah ball soup from Mija at Market 57 Passover begins on the evening of Saturday, April 12. And New Yorkers around the city will be celebrating with food. The eight-day holiday traditionally kicks off with seders on the first two nights, and is followed by a week of avoiding leavened foods, like bread, in memory of the unleavened bread Israelites made when rushing to free themselves from slavery in Egypt. To celebrate the season and the holiday of freedom, restaurants around the city are offering special menus for dine-in and takeout. Here's where to eat during Passover. Bubby's will host special Passover seder-style dinners on April 12th and 13th with traditional Jewish comfort dishes for $100 per person. The three-course menu includes chopped liver, deviled eggs, matzo ball soup, pot roast, and a special matzo crust berry pie. The Seder will be self-led—guests are invited to bring their own Haggadah (BYOH). Reservations are available in two-hour blocks from 5 –9 p.m. Mijo at Market 57 is offering a kosher-style Mexican Seder Dinner available for pickup and delivery in NYC. The special menu honors the roots of owners and husband-and-wife-duo Fany Gerson and Daniel Ortiz de Montellano. The menu includes Mexican matzah ball soup with an herby Mexican style chicken broth and cilantro, serrano chili, white onion, limes and avocado garnish on side.; a Passover chocolate covered matzah box, and roasted chicken with apricot glaze. Chef Hillary Sterling's Italian-inspired restaurant focused on live fire cooking is hosting an intimate dinner on Thursday, April 17th to celebrate, build community, and honor traditions from the chef's own evening includes a four-course, family-style dinner blending Jewish and Italian traditions, including wood-fired Matzo with ramp-horseradish butter, ricotta gnudi, roasted bass, and a date torta. The meal kicks off at 6:30 pm with a Manischewitz spritz followed by dinner at 7 p.m. in the private third-floor dining room with views of the Empire State Building. The meal is $215 per person, including cocktail & wine pairings. Matzo will also be available for pickup at Ci Siamo starting on Wednesday, April 11. Passover dinner at Ci Siamo in Manhattan Dagon is offering a selection of Passover options including Seder Plate that features parsley tabouleh, charoset, lamb shank bone marrow, matzah, and more for $15 per person. On April 12 and 13, guests can also enjoy a Passover prix fixe ($85 per person) menu that can also be ordered a la carte. Matzah Ball Soup ($19) with 'Sabath' chicken consomme; Levantine "Caesar" ($17) with fried chickpeas, tahini, anchovy tempura, roasted sesame; and Agu's Tunisian cigar ($21) with ground lamb, potato, dill, and amba are all starters. For the main course, guests can enjoy crispy roasted lamb ($48) with shawarma spice and wild rice; a hearty Short Rib Chamin stew ($48), and plancha-seared salmon ($38) with pomegranate braised red cabbage. To end, a special Malabi Panna Cotta ($16), Barbounia's Passover specials will be available throughout the holiday, until April 19. The menu includes Jerusalem artichoke soup ($18) with black truffle labaneh, whitefish salad ($25), and homemade chopped liver ($24) served with pickled spring vegetables, horseradish-beet maror, and chickpea-cumin tuile. Main courses include fish kofta-kebab tagine ($44) with fava beans, chickpeas, preserved lemon, and a fire roasted tomato-pepper broth; and a Passover Lamb Tasting ($55), a rich selection of grilled lamb chops, lamb neck maqluba, local ramps, green asparagus, spring carrots, and lamb jus. End the meal with a Matzo-Pistachio Napoleon ($18) made with pistachio mousse, matzo meal cake, and served with orange blossom ice cream, or the passover cookie plate ($18) with coconut and peanut flourless cookies.
New York Times
07-04-2025
- General
- New York Times
This Matzo Ball Soup Drifts Toward Tokyo
Miso soup with matzo balls? Lotus root tempura with matzo cake meal? Japanese sweet potato kugel? These exciting dishes aren't the work of chefs, but rather came from the resourcefulness of 1,000 or so Jews in Tokyo, a city of 28 million. One of Japan's tiniest minorities, they're creatively adapting traditional recipes for Passover, the ancient eight-day spring holiday, which begins Saturday. Recipe: Miso Matzo Ball Soup Many bring back kosher for Passover-approved ingredients like matzo cake meal from their travels, and, of course, substitutions are prevalent. Chinese horseradish or wasabi root, for example, steps in for the traditional maror (the bitter herbs on the Passover Seder plate), and miso forms the base for many soups, including matzo ball, with OK Kosher sending someone twice a year to supervise the facilities that make kosher fermented soybean paste. In fact, said Andrew Scheer, 38, the enthusiastic rabbi of the Jewish Community Center of Japan, founded 70 years ago: 'You'd be just as likely to find miso soup as matzo ball soup on our Friday night dinner table.' The center alternates between traditional Jewish cuisine preferred by its members and the kosher Japanese dishes tourists want to try. 'That way,' Rabbi Scheer said, 'everyone's happy.' On a recent Friday night, the center served up chicken soup with matzo balls and roast chicken, with a kosher bird ordered from abroad. There was challah, too, made by Toyoko Izaki San, a Japanese woman who has been twisting the loaves for the center for at least 40 years. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
