Restaurants

New Flavors and Fresh Ideas Raise Hopes for a Revival of Chicago Area’s Kosher Restaurant Scene

Two established Chicago-area kosher restaurants show the challenge of offering fine kosher dining outside of huge kosher markets like New York and Los Angeles. Slice of Life and Hy Life Bistro — twin dairy and meat restaurants side by side — are the brainchild of Sheldon Kane.

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How Washington, D.C., Got a Bunch of New Kosher Restaurants

For more than a decade, D.C. had only one kosher restaurant. Eli’s, a meat deli that opened in 2003, shut its doors a decade later. The same owner opened Char Bar, also with a meat-centric menu, at the beginning of the following year.

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