: a small round or square of dough stuffed with a filling (such as potato) and baked or fried
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The opening lunch menu will include pastrami sandwiches, matzo ball soup, kugel and potato knishes.
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Timothy Depeugh,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Feb. 2026
This Jewish deli does far more than pastrami, with a full deli counter and dine-in menu—there are frankfurters with saurkraut and other pickled things, knishes and latkes, matzo ball soup, and even gefilte fish—but the sky-high sandwiches are the reason to take the train alllll the way uptown.
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Megan Spurrell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Jan. 2026
But other foods are reappearing as well, such as the knish, or knysz in Polish—a bun filled with kasha, potatoes or cheese.
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Olga Mecking,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 July 2025
Appetizers included hot and sour soup and egg rolls, potato knishes and akara, Nigerian black-eyed pea fritters.
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Alix Wall,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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Timothy Depeugh,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Feb. 2026
This Jewish deli does far more than pastrami, with a full deli counter and dine-in menu—there are frankfurters with saurkraut and other pickled things, knishes and latkes, matzo ball soup, and even gefilte fish—but the sky-high sandwiches are the reason to take the train alllll the way uptown.
—
Megan Spurrell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Jan. 2026
But other foods are reappearing as well, such as the knish, or knysz in Polish—a bun filled with kasha, potatoes or cheese.
—
Olga Mecking,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 July 2025
Appetizers included hot and sour soup and egg rolls, potato knishes and akara, Nigerian black-eyed pea fritters.
—
Alix Wall,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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knish
noun
: a small round or square piece of dough stuffed with a filling and baked or fried
Etymology
Yiddish
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