Central/Eastern European Jewish Cuisine

[mascarpone]

Anybody know where I can get Halushkas, Kishke, Goulash in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens?

[rozrapp]

I presume your halushkas are what I've always called hulephches, aka stuffed cabbage. You can definitely find all three dishes + excellent deli and much, much more at the Mill Basin Deli, in Brooklyn.

[Dryden]

Sammy's Roumanian has kishke.

[raji]

Veselka?

[Pan]

Veselka is a Ukranian-American non-Jewish diner, and I frankly don't consider it a very good one, unless it has improved greatly in the last x-number of years (2? 3?) that I haven't eaten there. But yes, you can get versions of these dishes at non-Jewish Eastern European restaurants that, for example, stuff cabbage with pork and rice, as is the case for example at Teresa's, a Polish-American non-Jewish diner I frequently patronize (for the record, I think their stuffed cabbage is just OK, however). But to get really good goulash, I'm guessing that you'd probably want a Hungarian restaurant or perhaps an Austrian one. The Stage Restaurant, a tiny luncheonette (Polish-American, I think) just next to the theater between 7th and St. Marks on 2nd Av., does make a fairly satisfying goulash that it sells quite cheaply, but it's really just a good value for the neighborhood, and it is so far from having the great flavor of the gulyasleves I used to enjoy in Budapest that I would call those two different dishes.

[raji]

I haven't been there in a couple of years, their diner food was good and peirogi good.

[Dryden]

What does Satmar have to do with food? It's a sect of orthodox judaism, but I'm not aware of any particular food associations...

[Gifted Gourmet]

What does Satmar have to do with food?  It's a sect of orthodox judaism, but I'm not aware of any particular food associations...

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I rather assumed that with the Satmar Chassidim, as with the Lubavitch Chassidim, it is the shechita

(manner of animal slaughter and by whom) which is the primary issue ...

[mascarpone]

I guess what I was driving at was Central/Eastern European Jewish. Satmar is around present day Romania, but was originally part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, if I am not mistaken.

Perhaps a restaurant in Williamsburg?

What does Satmar have to do with food?  It's a sect of orthodox judaism, but I'm not aware of any particular food associations...

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[Dryden]

Well, Sammy's has very good kishke, but doesn't do goulash or halushka that I know of. I'm also guessing that kishke will be the hardest of the 3 to find...