Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Here is the new sign for Russ & Daughters Cafe on Orchard Street



You probably heard that the folks at Russ & Daughters are opening a full-service cafe at 127 Orchard St. … EVG reader Leesy noted the arrival of the sign yesterday…

As the Times reported last September, Niki Russ Federman and her cousin Josh Russ Tupper, part of the fourth generation of the family that founded the store on the LES in 1914, will run the 65-seat restaurant ... serving all the specialties from the R&D mothership around the corner on East Houston.

Back in October, Federman offered up several details about the new space in an interview with The Daily Meal … including if the cafe will have that R&D counter culture:

That is so critical in how we’re designing the space, trying to bring that counter experience and that human interaction to the new café. So there will be an open slicing area where you can watch the slicing happen, and actually you’ll be able to see it better than you can in the store. Right now you have to peek down poke around, There, we’ll have a slicing counter [and] an old-school soda fountain making our egg creams. There’s going to be almost like a luncheonette counter where you can sit down as you’re watching all the food come together, and you still have that over-the-counter interaction.

We haven't heard about an opening date yet (just spring) … though we did spot a Craigslist ad from March 27 for a sous chef and other positions…

Previously on EV Grieve:
More details about the new Russ & Daughters Café coming to Orchard Street
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 16, 2014 at 9:23 AM

    Will they remain in their old location or is that closing- anybody know?

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  2. EV GrieveApril 16, 2014 at 9:48 AM

    @ anon 9:23

    The mothership isn't going anywhere! The cafe is just an extension of that location...

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  3. AnonymousApril 16, 2014 at 10:31 AM

    Thanks EV- that's good news.

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  4. AnonymousApril 16, 2014 at 11:03 AM

    will the new sign have the funky neon colors of the old sign?

    I-)

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  5. AnonymousApril 16, 2014 at 1:25 PM

    Scared myself, as I my brain processed what I was reading too fast. I just saw "Here is the new sign for Russ & Daughters" I thought, "NO! THEY COULDN'T…"

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  6. AnonymousApril 16, 2014 at 3:38 PM

    Home of the $20.00 breakfast sandwich.

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