Yonah Shimmel's Knishes Bakery - New York Restaurant

Real Old-fashioned Apple Strudel!
This is the best old fashioned Jewish deli around...Try the apple strudel ! Jimmy and I always make a stop coming all the way from E Hampton .Schimmel's will remain Forever... Thank Goodness! *Thank You for keeping old tradition alive in NY city!WE Love you Schimmel's!
Recommended: Apple Strudel
Food: 10
Service: 10
Ambiance: 10
Overall: 8

Date Posted: Sunday, May 04, 2003

Oh, Those Potato Knishes!
It's been thirty years since I first tasted a knish from Yonah Shimmels. I still crave the hot potato knish and look foreward to having one each time I come to New York.
Food: 10
Service: 6
Ambiance: 10
Overall: 8

Date Posted: Tuesday, March 18, 2003

Worth every penny!
On Valentine's Day we stopped in after a movie next door - what a delicious find! REAL knishes and Egg Creams for real New Yorkers! Not over-priced and mass-produced like the nearby "deli", either.
Recommended: Vanilla Egg Cream
Food: 10
Service: 8
Ambiance: 8
Overall: 10

Date Posted: Friday, November 29, 2002

Delicious Memories
I used to get Cherry, Pineapple & Blueberry Cheese Knishes with my father on the boardwalk in Far Rockaway as a kid. These great knishes bring back memories long since gone--though I don't remember the 'old' knishes being as big as Yonah's! If you've never had a cheese knish, try one & you'll be hooked for life!
Recommended: Cherry Cheese, Pineapple Cheese & Blueberry Cheese Knishes
Food: 10
Service: 10
Ambiance: 8
Overall: 10

Date Posted: Monday, November 04, 2002

Yummy!
I made my first trip to New York last week and stayed at the Howard Johnsons hotel next door. I loved Yonah's!! I ate there every morning! It was so New York. It was the mornings that were the best part of the trip! The days were filled with crazy rushing around from one place to another, but at least the morning were relaxing and yummy! Thanks!
Recommended: potato
Food: 10
Service: 10
Ambiance: 6
Overall: 8

Date Posted: Tuesday, February 13, 2001

Delicious Knishes
How many foodstuffs rhyme with delicious? Not too many. Yonah Schimmel's not only makes great, giant, piping hot knishes in a variety of flavors (regular potato, mushroom, onion, and a few fruit flavors), but is also an amazing throwback to another era. Around the corner from Katz's, it too provides an interesting counterpoint to the current era's crop of clubs and soulless takeout joints. This place has got ambiance bleeding out of the walls, though it is depression-era ambiance.
Recommended: Knishes
Food: 8
Service: 6
Ambiance: 8
Overall: 6
- Delicious Knishes