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Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery

9.0 • Restaurant
🏛️ Historical Sites
📻 Vintage
🥘 Food
🥟 Knish
🥐 Bakery
🥟 Potato Knish
🥡 Takeout
💎 Hidden Gems
🌿 Natural
🏠 Locally Owned
🎂 Cheesecake
😎 Cool
🥧 Pie
Unique
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Ancient little shop with a vintage atmosphere and classic NYC worker behind the counter. Interior feels dingey and run down, evoking an old New York movie set from the Lower East Side. No seating available; space is small and cluttered with boxes.
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Map showing 137 E Houston St
Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery
9.0
137 E Houston St, New York, New York, United States

Good to know

1

The restaurant offers takeout only with no seating available.

2

A large regular knish is $5.50, a good deal by NYC standards.

3

Customers should bring cash due to a credit card minimum.

People are saying

"The knishes taste great and feel real."

"They don’t have seating and run out of treats."

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