Yonah’s Celebrity Friends
Ellen and Howie Mandel
The Jim Gaffigan Show, season 2, episode 1
A favorite spot of Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, we're highlighted in the new book about the seminal rap band.
Ron Howard
Ron Howard
Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart Autograph
Bobby Cannavale
Bobby Cannavale Autograph
Andrew Dice Clay
Andrew Dice Clay Autograph
Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers Autograph
Larry David
Larry David Autograph
Jackie Mason
Jackie Mason Autograph
Evan Rachel Wood
Evan Rachel Wood Autograph
Morgan Spurlock
Morgan Spurlock Autograph
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola Autograph
Barbra Streisand Loves Yonah Schimmel Knishes
Barbra kept her chatter light. She made references to Yonah Schimmel’s knishes and Zabar’s bialys. Spotting Oprah Winfrey in the front row, she gushed, “Hi, Oprah! You look so thin.” And she didn’t meet every fan’s outcry with an invective. When one shouted out, “I want to marry you, and I’m gay!” Barbra responded, “There are gay people here?”
Jerry O’Connell Loves Yonah Schimmel Knishes
His other fave? Yonah Schimmel Knishes. “I pick up a couple and put them in the freezer, and then put them in the microwave when I come home from doing the play. There’s Yonah Schimmel, and then there’s everything else. I don’t believe you’re allowed to use the term knish unless you’re eating a Yonah Schimmel.” To that, O’Connell’s wife, Rebecca Romijn, sheepishly confessed that she’s never had one. “I’ll introduce her,” assured Jerry. – New York Magazine’s Grub Street
Michael Tilson Thomas - My New York
Anytime I’m in New York in the fall, I go to Yonah Schimmel’s knishes, which has been a fixture on East Houston Street since the 1890s. Sometimes I head to Yonah’s straight from the airport. Nothing warms you up as the weather starts getting cool like a fresh potato or kasha knish. Yonah’s makes some of the best I’ve ever eaten, although in our family recipe, the kasha is more browned, and there’s a bit more onions and schmaltz. I’m sure that my grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, who were stars of the Yiddish stage and the ultimate connoisseurs of Jewish culture and cuisine, also beat a path to Yonah’s. It’s one of those classic, authentic New York experiences that just seems to get better over time. – NY Times