New York is Zabar's...Zabar's is New York! A Upper West Side Institution! Enjoy all the lox, bagels, cookies, caviar, coffee, cheese and gourmet items your heart desires. 

Eighty Years, and 3 generations later, Zabar's family business is still going strong.

Louis and Lillian Zabar started the business back in 1934, opening a 22-foot-wide shop along NYC’s Broadway at West 80th Street. Louis was a real stickler for quality, roasting his own coffee, and personally visiting smokehouses to sample and inspect the fish – rejecting far more than he accepted. Back in the 1960’s, Zabar's introduced New York to Brie, in the ‘70’s we brought them sun-dried tomatoes and gnocchi, and in the ‘80’s, we got so excited about caviar – and wanted everyone to taste it – that our prices set off a so-called “Caviar War”. (Incidentally, Zabar's won.)

Over the years, the business kept growing, and today Zabar's spans practically the entire block front. The family is still at it – hand-slicing meltingly delicious smoked fish behind our deli counter…offering tastes of the latest artisanal cheeses…setting out fresh-baked batches of rugelach (it’s our Bubbe’s recipe)…overseeing the roasting of our special coffee blends (we sell 400,000 pounds a year!) Retire? Not on your life – we’re having too much fun!