We'd add
Our runner-upChocolate Egg Cream
An egg cream, the old New York soda-fountain drink of milk, seltzer and chocolate syrup. Poured alongside the bagel.
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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstClassic Bagel & Lox Sandwich
- TechniqueSmoked
Nova smoked salmon, sliced by hand, on a bagel with cream cheese. The Lower East Side's breakfast, and the first thing we'd ask for.
Russ & Daughters
Jewish appetizing · smoked fish · bagels · Lower East Side, New York
179 East Houston Street, New York, NY 10002
Joel Russ opened this appetizing shop, a smoked-fish counter, on Houston Street before the First World War, and the family still runs it. The counter is the heart of it.
The proof, in the house's own words
Why the bagel and lox
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