Milan

Contributed by: Abbie Rosenbaum-Braha | Last Travel Date: [Author lives in Milan]
Kosher Info: Milan’s kosher community is well served by three small supermarkets which carry just about anything that one could want. The following website gives a thorough listing of all kosher and Jewish establishment in Milan and throughout Italy: http://www.jewishitaly.org. If [...]

Nice

Contributed by: Abbie Rosenbaum-Braha | Last Travel Date: January 2008

Kosher Info: Nice is fairly small and just about all of the kosher places are reachable by foot from each other, the train station, and the Mediterranean. What was really great about Nice is that somehow, outside of Chabad, nobody spoke English or Hebrew, [...]

Vienna

Contributed by: Howie Schulman  |  Last Date of Travel:

Kosher Info: There is a large Jewish community in Vienna. The ultra orthodox live in the second district. That’s where youll find the kosher super market, butcher, bakery, and restaurants. Many of the modern orthodox allow themselves to eat some bread and pasteries from the local franchised [...]

Istanbul

Contributed by: Josh Margo | Last Date of Travel: April 2007
Kosher info: Believe it or not there are actually close to 3000 Jews living in Turkey today! So there is not a lot of kosher stuff. There is at least one restaurant that we were able to find in Istanbul called Carne Restaurant. [...]

Athens

Contributed by: Sivia Kahn | Last Date Visited: October 2006
Kosher Info: It is true that Greece is not a kosher paradise: its population of about 3,000 Jews, does not represent a strong enough market incentive for food companies to invest in kosher accreditation, nor are there any kosher restaurants. There are however options [...]

Toledo

Contributed by Shira Rosenbaum and Aaron Roller | Last Travel Date: Aug 2006
Kosher Info: Alas, to what was formerly a thriving Jewish town, there is no kosher food available. We were able to find a few fruit stalls around town, but we mostly brought food from Madrid (which is only about a 1-2 hour [...]

Madrid

Contributed by: Shira Rosenbaum and Aaron Roller | Last Date of Travel: Aug 2006
Kosher Info: We traveled to Spain in the summer of 2006. We flew into Madrid, took the train to Toledo, Cordoba and Granada before returning to Madrid. Before our trip we had been warned that the only Kosher food [...]

Florence

Contributed by: Maurice T. Appelbaum| Last Date of Travel: August 2006
Kosher Info: Kosher restaurant and a kosher store right by the shul. The restaurant was really good, especially the desserts. The store was sparsely stocked. The woman in the restaurant speaks English and was helpful with food questions. Look at the Milan post for all [...]

Venice

Contributed by: Maurice T. Appelbaum | Last Date of Travel: August 2006
Kosher Info: Check Milan for useful websites for supermarket food and general info. GamGam is a restaurant run by Chabad and that gives free meals on Shabbos. In the summer it can be really crowded in Venice so be sure to go [...]