What Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery is known for
Yonah Schimmel has hand-rolled and baked knishes on Manhattan's Lower East Side since 1910, filling them fresh daily from the original vegan potato recipe to seasonal flavors. The kosher-certified bakery has been named Best Knish in NYC by both Yelp and TripAdvisor, with knishes shipped nationwide via Goldbelly.
Yonah Schimmel has baked knishes on Manhattan's Lower East Side since 1910, making it one of the neighborhood's oldest continuously operating food businesses. The bakery still hand-rolls and stuffs each knish rather than using mechanized production, filling them fresh daily from a range that runs from the classic potato, made to what the bakery calls Uncle Yonah's original recipe and entirely vegan, to seasonal flavors.
The bakery holds full kosher certification, a status maintained through more than a century of ownership changes and neighborhood transformation around it. That combination of age, technique and certification has earned it recognition from both Yelp and TripAdvisor as serving the best knish in New York City.
Beyond the East Houston Street storefront, the bakery has adapted to modern ordering without changing its product: knishes ship nationwide through Goldbelly, arrive via DoorDash, and are available for free local delivery through Sauce, giving a century-old recipe several new ways to reach customers who cannot visit the original shop in person.
How ORBIS reads this city
Best for — Hand-rolled potato knishes from the original 1910 recipe
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