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Eats Beat: Moss Cafe puts local ingredients to work for kosher cuisine
This isn’t your bubbe’s kosher food. Moss Cafe, an organic kosher and vegetarian restaurant in Riverdale (3260 Johnson Ave.), serves up eats with local ingredients like maitake mushrooms foraged straight from Van Cortlandt Park as a substitute for meat.
Best of the Bronx: Moss Café
A new business in the Bronx is providing healthy food choices. Moss Cafe opened in Riverdale six months ago thanks to a Kickstarter campaign. Owners Emily and Alex Weisberg drew 333 backers online, raising over $51,000 within a year.
Some Kosher With Your Kale? The Sustainable Kosher Trend Grows
People crowdfund all kinds of projects these days–art shows, T-shirt businesses, indie rock bands. Emily Weisburg is crowdfunding a sustainable kosher restaurant.
6 food Kickstarters in NYC that are better than potato salad
Perhaps the best part of Kickstarter is really being able to see a change in the community. Moss Cafe aims to bring a Kosher, farm-to-table eatery and espresso bar to Riverdale in the Bronx, where no such place currently exists. A $25 pledge gets you a tote bag!
Moss Café: Farm to Table Kosher Café in Riverdale
Emily Weisberg knows good coffee. Over the phone, I drooled as she described the rich, bold, bitter aromas that put my mug full of reheated office coffee-pot coffee to shame. She said, “I’ve been a barista for more than 10 years. My background is in coffee.” That’s why she’s opening Moss Café in Riverdale, NY.
Neighborhood Eats: Shakshuka at Moss Cafe
Emily Weisberg had planned for coffee with snacks. However, the Bronx neighborhood clamored for more when she opened Moss Cafe.
Cafe ‘buys’ Farm, Turns it Over to Customers
Some quick thinking allows Moss Cafe to stay afloat despite the ongoing pandemic