We'd add
Our runner-upPletzel
The pletzel, flat onion bread, to tear at the counter or carry home.
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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstBialys
- TechniqueBrick oven
The bialy, Białystok's roll, from the brick oven. One at the counter.
Also on our table
- We'd take a bialy, the flat onion roll, with plain cream cheese
Kossar's Bagels & Bialys
Bialy bakery since 1936 · Lower East Side (Grand Street), New York
367 Grand Street, New York, NY 10002
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A Lower East Side bakery founded in the 1930s, which says it is the oldest bialy bakery in the country; the bialy, a flat onion roll, came with Jewish bakers from Białystok. It's baked in the brick oven on Grand Street.
The proof, in the house's own words
Why the bialy
Tradition
The country's oldest bialy bakery, the house says, on Grand Street for decades.
Local choice
The bialys the bakery is famous for.
“We have been baking our legendary bialys since 1936.”
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