Alex's Appetizing and Smoked Fish Breakfast
A curated menu of bagels, smoked fish, seafood salads, and more.
Cuisine Jewish-American (New York)
Dishes and Components
Smoked Fish
- Pastrami Cured Salmon or Lox
- Maple Syrup Cured Smoked Salmon
- Smoked Mackerel
- Smoked Eel
- Smoked Sable
- Smoked Whitefish
Herring
- Pickled Herring with Onions
- Pickled Herring in Mustard or Cream Sauce
Seafood Salads
- Whitefish Salad
- Lobster or Shrimp Salad
Fish Roe
- Wild Salmon Roe
- Caviar
Bagels and Cream Cheese
- Bagels Everything and Assorted
- Scallion Cream Cheese
- Plain Cream Cheese
- Whipped Cultured Butter
Toppings and Pickles
- Sliced Red and White Onions
- Capers
- Pickled Green Tomatoes
Alternatives
- Smoked Sturgeon
- Smoked Chub
- Herring in Curry Sauce
- Rollmops
- Matjes
Notes
For appetizing stores in NYC, we recommend Russ & Daughters, Sables, Murray’s Sturgeon Shop, and Barney Greengrass.
For bagels, we recommend Ess-a-Bagel, Popup Bagels, Absolute Bagels, BO’s Bagels, Court Street Bagels, and Utopia Bagels.
For more, see our New York City guide.