Shops in Coney Island

A Russian grocery with a prepared-food counter at the front doing piroshki stuffed with cabbage or meat, smoked fish by the pound and sausage cut to order. Prices are written by hand and are low. It is the kind of shop where you buy lunch and also leave with a jar of something you did not plan on.

Daily, 9am to 8pm

Next door to Nathan's on Surf Avenue and in business since 1941, with trays of candy apples in the window and marshmallow sticks rolled in caramel behind the glass. The candy apple is the thing to get and the fruit under the shell is better than it has any reason to be. It stays open later than almost anything else on this stretch and it is open in February.

Mon to Thu, 10am to 10:30pm. Fri and Sat, 9:30am to 11:30pm. Sun, 9:30am to 11pm. Open year round