Bagel, smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and pickles at Barney Greengrass
Half sour pickles in a jar at Barney Greengrass
The counter at Barney Greengrass — smoked fish, lox, whitefish
Barney Greengrass blackboard — Going to the Hamptons?
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Barney Greengrass

It's been on Amsterdam Avenue since 1908. The room looks like it hasn't changed much. The green stripe plates, the chalk menu on the board, the pickles in the big jar by the counter. That's the point. You're not going for novelty, you're going for the thing that's been right this whole time.

The kind of place that doesn't need to try because it never stopped being itself.

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