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Join us for this weekend's Demos & Tastings

Friday, November 6, 2009
Join us for a Madecasse Chocolate Bar Tasting, 2 - 4 PM



Saturday, November 7, 2009
Join us for a 3 Little Pigs Pate Sampling, 2 - 4 PM


and Join us for a Rishi Tea demonstration and sampling, 2 - 4 PM
  



Sunday, November 8, 2009
Illy Espresso Maker demonstrations and Espresso tastings, 1 - 4 PM

Join us for this weekend's Demos & Tastings

Friday, October 16, 2009
Join us for a Rishi Tea demonstration and sampling, 2 - 4 PM
 

Saturday, October 17, 2009
Illy Espresso Maker demonstrations and Espresso tastings, 1 - 4 PM
 
and
 
3 Little Pigs Pate Sampling, 2 - 4 PM




Sunday, October 17, 2009
Join us for a Kind Bars Tasting, 2 - 4 PM
KIND Fruit + Nut bars are delicious snacks for a heart-healthy diet. These handmade bars are packed with whole premium almonds, Brazilian nuts, walnuts, peanuts, and chunks of all-natural dried fruits held together with honey.

Picnics in the Fall

With weather like this, who can not want to be outside in the park, enjoying the amazing fall colors all around us!

Stop by Zabar's to pick up your picnic on the way to the park or order one online for someone who deserves a real NYC treat!  

Try our Simply New York Tote a perfect combination of two silky nova and cream cheese sandwiches on kettle-boiled hearth baked New York bagels, a bag of our cinnamon rugelach and an oversized I Love NY cookie all in a canvas Zabar's tote.

Send one to your new yorker friends, anywhere in the country!

Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur Holidays

Zabar’s has many ways to help you prepare for the holidays!

Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on Friday 9/18/09 and Yom Kippur begins at sundown on Sunday 9/27/09.

From our Catering Department let us provide you with everything you need for your holiday meal.

Shop our Online Holiday Menu and let us send you what you need to put together your own holiday menu.

And send a Holiday Gift to someone important to you.  Send our Apples and Honey Basket or our La Shana Tova Tote.  

      

See our full Gift Department.

In Store Tastings, this Thursday & Friday

Thursday, July 23 & Friday, July 24
Divina Olive Tasting, 3 - 7 PM
Gigante beans, olives stuffed with red peppers, & olives stuffed with garlic

Picnic with Zabar's and a Good Book

Let’s just pretend that it’s almost summer.  That it’s warm and sunny 7 days a week.  The beaches are just full enough to give us some company without ending up with your blanket-neighbor’s sand in your gear.  Now imagine a perfect beach picnic scenario.

First thing’s first.  Pick your beach wisely.  Find the right ocean temperature.  Sand grain is important.  Lots to do or nothing to do.  All sun or sun and shade.  But then again, maybe it’s a grassy lawn rather than sand, but you get the idea.

Once you’re on the beach, then what?  I’d start with a good book like The Family Man by Elinor Lipman.  This delightful read circles around the Upper West Side with a scenario fit only for fiction or reality tv.  Henry and his “family” are characters you can’t help but want to spend time with and since he so often runs to Zabar’s we know he would feed you well.

And speaking of food, what’s right to fill your picnic basket with?  Make your own basket from Zabar’s Deli and Cheese Counters before you head over to the park?  Or maybe have one of our baskets waiting for you at your beach house.  I’d give the Zabar’s Morning Basics a try…. really everything I’d need to get myself ready for a hard day of relaxing. 

The Minimalist Freezes it!

In today’s New York Time's Dining & Wine section, Mark Bittman shows us the way for relaxing summer nights and for meals that don’t break the bank.  What a fantastic time of year to cook one time a week (and heat up the whole apartment) and not every night. 

He shares his expertise in the ways of preserving food by freezing it!  If you’re anything like me you’re not necessarily making your own stock and stews weekly, but maybe (like me) making your own gourmet dinners from the kitchen’s of Zabar’s chefs.  Ok, so I get a couple of main dishes, a few sides, and voila I’m eating gourmet food in the comfort of my own home!  But if I over buy or end up dining out now I’ve got a handle on it.  By just portioning it and freezing individual full meals I’ve created my own home made meals of Zabar’s delicacies!

Not bad for leftovers!

Read the how to in Mark Bittman’s article here and stop by 80th and Broadway to pick up your meals or order from a selection of Zabar’s prepared foods online.

“Freeze That Thought” by Mark Bittman, May 5, 2009
The New York Times

A Real Corned Beef Sandwich

Zabar’s Deli, The Real Deal...

Watch our own Harold Horowytz share his 31 years of experience making A Perfect Corned Beef Sandwich.