If your idea of luxury is gourmet food, and your idea of luxurious food is the highest quality smoked fish, caviar and cream cheeses, then you can’t go past Russ and Daughters, a New York institution in the Lower East Side since 1914.
Russ and Daughters is a tiny little shop, with the freshest dried fruits, chocolates and other sweets to your right as you walk in, and a mouth-watering array of smoked fish on the left side. The place is popular, and that means crowded – but after a short wait, you’ll have some of the most delectable salmon you’ve ever tasted, wrapped in Russ and Daughter’s signature waxy white paper, in your hot little hands.
The array of smoked salmon options is simply delightful – there are Danish, Norwegian, Irish, Gaspe Nova and Western Nova varieties of salmon, available in double smoked and organic options, as well as pastrami cured salmon, loin cut-smoked salmon, belly lox and more. Cream cheeses range from scallion and horseradish to lox, green olive and tofu.
A Russ and Daughters smoked salmon bagel with cream cheese, and tomato and red onion too, if you like, is a taste sensation to behold.
