Food in Lower East Side

The city opened this market in January 1940 to move the pushcart peddlers off the Lower East Side streets, and it crossed Delancey into a new building in 2019. Around thirty independent vendors sell under one roof. You can eat for very little or buy groceries and leave.

Mon to Wed, 8am to 8pm. Thu to Sat, 8am to 9pm. Sun, 10am to 6pm

Cutters have been hand-slicing pastrami behind this counter since 1888 and the ticket handed to you at the door is still the system. Order at the counter, tip the cutter, and you eat sooner than a table would let you. It runs straight through Friday and Saturday nights.

Mon to Thu, 8am to 11pm. Open continuously from Friday 8am until Sunday 11pm

Joel Russ moved his appetizing shop to this corner of Houston Street in 1920 and the fourth generation of the family runs it now. Smoked fish is sliced to order behind a counter you take a number for. There is nowhere to sit.

Daily, 8am to 4pm

Scarr Pimentel opened this in 2016 after learning to make pizza at Lombardi's, and the kitchen mills part of its own wheat and blends it with flour from upstate New York. In June 2023 it crossed Orchard Street into a bigger space at number 35. Order a plain slice at the counter and take a booth.

Mon to Wed, 11:30am to 11pm. Thu, 11:30am to midnight. Fri and Sat, 11:30am to 2am. Sun, 11:30am to 11pm

Yonah Schimmel sold knishes off a pushcart before taking this Houston Street storefront in 1910. The counter still sells one thing seriously, a baked knish, potato or kasha. You eat it standing or you take it away.

Daily, 10:30am to 6pm