B&H Kosher Dairy Restaurant on 2nd Avenue near St Mark’s Place was founded in 1938 by Abie Bergson and Jack Heller, when Second Avenue from 14th Street to Houston Street was considered “The Jewish Rialto” due to the large numbers of Yiddish theaters along the Avenue.
We have visited & photographed this lovely luncheonette many times (swipe left for 2nd photo in the 2000s).
The current owners of B&H are husband-and-wife team Aleksandra (Ola) and Fawzy Abdelwahed. Fawzy purchased the restaurant in 2003, and Ola joined him two years later. Both of them are immigrants (Ola a Catholic from Poland and Fawzy a Muslim from Egypt), who not only embrace the neighborhood’s diversity but still offer the same classic Jewish kosher comfort food including latkes, knishes, borscht, blintzes, pierogi, tuna sandwiches and homemade challah bread 
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Yesterday we had a chance to visit @bandhdairy and speak with Ola about how their business has declined since the pandemic (please go and support them as they have been struggling) and we got an amazing store t-shirt & she even gave our dog Hudson some fresh-baked challah bread!
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To watch our visit to B&H Dairy on our JamesandKarla YouTube channel, see direct link below & in bio and IG story.
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