Purveyors of the highest quality smoked fish and caviar, RUSS & DAUGHTERS is New York's premier appetizing shop. Since 1914, this landmark institution has been owned and operated by 4 generations of the Russ family. For 103 years, Russ & Daughters has provided the tastes and traditions of a true New York experience. In 2014, on the 100th anniversary of Russ & Daughters, 4th Generation Owners Josh Russ Tupper and Niki Russ Federman opened RUSS & DAUGHTERS CAFE: restaurant on Orchard Street, the street where their great grandfather peddled herring from a barrel and pushcart. In 2016, they opened RUSS & DAUGHTERS AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM: take-out appetizing counter and restaurant. RUSS & DAUGHTERS BAGELS & BAKERY launched in 2016, where Russ & Daughters makes all of its own bagels, bialys, shissel rye bread, pumpernickel, babka, black and white cookies, challah, and traditional baked goods.
Russ & Daughters has been honored with awards from the NYC Mayor's Office, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, Foundation for Jewish Culture, and State Senator Daniel Squadron who introduced a resolution that was unanimously passed by the New York State Senate.
Russ & Daughters has received praise in countless publications, and the restaurant was #2 on Pete Wells's New York Times list of "The 10 Best New Restaurants of 2014."
Joel Russ, an Eastern European immigrant who arrived in America in 1907, started the business to cater to the throngs of Jewish immigrants settling in NYC’s Lower East Side. In 1920, he opened his store at 179 East Houston Street, after a few years of operating a storefront around the corner. He renamed the business "Russ & Daughters," after his daughters who joined him as the 2nd generation. Mark Russ Federman succeeded as the 3rd Generation, and is now retired. He’s the author of a celebrated memoir Russ & Daughters: The House That Herring Built. Russ & Daughters is now owned by the 4th Generation of the Russ family: Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper.
Family tradition is nothing new at Manny's. It can be traced back (along with some of the recipes) to more than 50 years ago. When Jack Raskin joined his brother Charlie in the first of the Raskin cafeterias located on Van Buren and Halsted streets. The Russian-born brothers specialized in Jewish cooking served up quickly and in large portions - the way Charlie had learned by watching his mother.
Manny's Coffee Shop & Deli came into being shortly after World War II, when the Raskin brothers split up so that Jack could open his own restaurant on Roosevelt Road near the open-air market area known as Maxwell Street. It was a shoestring operation at first, with Manny serving as the cook (he had learned by watching his uncle). The address changed a few times, and then in 1964 Manny's moved to its current spot on Jefferson Street. Ken remembers his father saying, "I know what the people around here want, and I'm the only one left who can do it."
Even when Manny's opened at this location more than 35 years ago it was among the last of the unique style of urban eatery - the home style, family run cafeteria bubbling with the spirit of its neighborhood and attracting patrons from all walks of life. In those early years, if you lived or worked anywhere in the vicinity you could hitch a ride on the Manny's van that circled around making deliveries and picking up customers for lunch.
Still, to get the full effect of the rich history surrounding Manny's you have to view the dining room walls decorated with news clippings, reviews, snapshots, and memorabilia demonstrating how deeply Chicagoans treasure this historic restaurant - as a place to eat and meet, and as a memento of downtown as it was a half century ago, a relic of the past.
Manny's opened it's second location on April 18,2002. It is located on A concourse in the New Midway Airport.