New Downtown Kutsher's Brings Catskills To Tribeca

Kutsher's Tribeca
(photo from Kutsher's Tribeca)

When people get very sentimental, they will pay almost any price to sate their yen for nostalgia. From one perspective, this might explain why a New York restaurant called Kutsher's is a popular hit.

The Tribeca establishment deliberately provides some echoes of the Catskill hotel after which it's named. According to Adam Platt's recent New York magazine review, Kutsher's food offers new interpretations of New York Jewish ritualistic food, such as kreplach and gefilte fish.

I have not been to either the faded Catskills Kutsher's or Tribeca's new model. However, I want to check out the downtown version. I'm not Jewish, but over the years I've developed an affinity for Jewish home cooking and New York deli food. If someone can make a better gefilte fish than (fill in the blank's) grandmother, I'm game to try it.

To paraphrase the 1960s ads about Levy's rye bread, "you don't have to be Jewish to love Kutsher's." (For those unfamiliar with the Doyle Dane Bernbach ad, read this link from virutaljudaica.com.)