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One of the requirements for food to be “kosher,” or acceptable for human consumption under Jewish dietary law (Kashrut), is that animals for slaughter must have cloven hooves. This includes goats and cows. Pigs, despite having cloves hooves, do not have the other kosher qualification, cud-chewing. A kosher restaurant must follow the laws of kashrut to be acceptable to observant Jews. Kashrut principles derive from various passages in the Torah, and are numerous and complex, extending far beyond the edicts of cloven-hooved and ruminant. To be listed as a kosher restaurant NY state requires state certification, including on-site inspection several times a year.
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Modern kosher restaurants are often establishments providing elegant cuisine with a tasteful ambiance to match. Many a kosher restaurant can be enjoyed by NY residents. Mashgichim work behind the scenes at each of the kosher restaurants to ensure that the dietary laws are observed. A mashgiach is an Orthodox rabbi, or a person approved by such a rabbi, whose responsibility is to prevent violations of Jewish dietary laws where food assumed to be kosher is prepared for the public, such as at a kosher restaurant NYC. A kosher food restaurant cannot be certified kosher without a mashgiach working at the restaurant during all food preparation hours.
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A kosher food restaurant must serve either meat or dairy foods; Kashrut specifies that these foods not mix. A kosher diary restaurant would offer only foods based on dairy products; no meat would be allowed although fish or fowl is acceptable at a kosher dairy restaurant. Kosher restaurant menus might look different than non-kosher counterparts therefore. A kosher Italian restaurant would most likely be vegetarian so that dishes with cheese could be included. A Chinese kosher restaurant would not have the expected seafood offerings as shellfish and non-fish water fauna are not kosher.
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So a kosher fish restaurant would be limited in its repertoire to fish with fins and scales. Oysters and scallops would not be acceptable. Not every kosher concern is necessarily represented on the kosher restaurant menus. Of less obvious concern, to both a kosher fish restaurant interested in serving sushi, and a Chinese kosher restaurant ready to chop up its vegetables, is the fact that no insect is considered kosher. Meticulous care must be taken that none remain on the produce. A kosher passover restaurant is one that further adheres to the additional dietary rules associated with this holiday.
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A kosher restaurant guide indicates not only the type of menu offered (dairy or non-dairy), but also the overseeing mashgiach certification. A glatt kosher restaurant is one that follows the authority of the Hasidic dietary laws. The strictures followed at a glatt kosher restaurant differ somewhat from the standard Kashrut principles. A kosher restaurant guide is the first step in deciding whether you want to choose that intriguing kosher Italian restaurant Manhattan papers always give thumbs up or the kosher restaurant Brooklyn visitors are always raving about. Details about the restaurant menus generally makes the difference.
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