Hand-Sliced Smoked Fish on the Upper West Side
Order thinly sliced lox and smoked fish over bagels and cream cheese, an Upper West Side morning ritual.
🐟 The Appetizing Counter
Barney Greengrass runs on smoked fish. The counter stacks silky lox beside cream cheese, black olives, and bagels ready for the schmear, then slices everything thin against a marble slab with a wedge of lemon and a tangle of dill. Regulars come for the sturgeon that earned the place its Sturgeon King name, and the caviar tins behind the counter turn a weekday breakfast into something worth dressing up for. Pastrami and a pile of house pickles round out the order for anyone after a heavier plate. The room sits on Amsterdam Avenue in the Upper West Side, rated 4.4 across more than sixteen hundred visits, trading polish for the kind of appetizing spread New York has argued about for generations.
