As usual, on our visits to NYC, we've been making use of the subway to get around, here, there and everywhere - "Ladies and Gentlemen, as you exit please be careful of the gap between the platform and the train". It's a great way to get around! It was the mode of transport used on Wednesday when we met Greg for lunch at Russ & Daughters, advertised as the 'Queens of Lake Sturgeon'. On the Lower East Side, the café is at 127 Orchard Street and, as we discovered, the food is superb. Operating for over 100 years it began when Joel Russ, a Polish immigrant arrived in Manhattan around 1905, and started the business to cater to the Jewish immigrants settling in the Lower East Side of New York. He began by carrying Polish Mushrooms
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