This place seems like nothing more than an open storefront with no door or walls, four huge barrels of pickles (four varieties) plus sauerkraut, olives, marinated mushrooms and pickled peppers. Men, working out in the open even through the winter dole out big scoops of the pickles to sell in bulk. In back, pickles are, well, pickled. But it isn’t just an open storefront; it’s also a time machine, to an older, rawer Manhattan. This is the sort of slowly disappearing business that the city was once full of; in the brine you can taste the culture and history of NYC’s immigrant past. The pickles themselves are real, with a strong flavor, and if you don’t bring the kids here, it would be hard to claim they hadn’t missed something.
Contact no: (212) 334-3616
Location: 85 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002
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