Appetizing Store

A Jewish institution, the appetizing store is a delicatessen specializing in foods other than meat, particularly smoked and pickled fish, barrels of pickles, dried fruit, and nuts. Many of the traditional appetizing stores expanded to purvey a cornucopia of foodstuffs. Perhaps the most famous of these is New York’s Zabar’s, which now sells everything from herring in sour cream sauce to fresh mesclun to fine Italian prosciutto.