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Interior of
Biederman’s Specialty Foods
Courtesy of
Lauren Biederman
Biederman has crowd-
sourced ideas from the Bella
Vista Neighbors Association,
asking members about their
favorite kinds of fish and
what they would like to see
in stock. Biederman’s has sold
takeout brunch boards with
bagels, cream cheese, smoked
fish, olives and pastries to test
the waters before the official
opening on Jan. 15.

“Those are very helpful, to
have input,” she said.

Although not all of the
items at Biederman’s will be
kosher, there will be plenty of
kosher options, and the dietary
status of all items will be clearly
marked. “All of the fish that comes
from Samaki is going to be
kosher certified. We will not
have any meat in-house ever,”
she said. “We are getting most
of our baked goods from
kosher bakeries.”
Due to the pandemic, the
shop will offer takeout and
online ordering only when
it opens. Biederman hopes
to offer cafe-style seating
outdoors, and later indoors,
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“At one point, I said to
Lauren, ‘Do you need an old
Jewish guy in the shop?’” he
said. He had knife skills from his
time working at an Orthodox
summer camp kitchen as a high
school and college student, and
Biederman welcomed him
aboard. Now, he helps out
slicing fish and produce.

“I was looking for something
to keep me a little busier. I have
some nonprofit board work
that I do, but something in the
food service industry was an
exciting opportunity for me,”
Mopsik said.

So far, one of his favorite
items is the pastrami-smoked
salmon from Samaki. The
fish is rubbed with pepper,
coriander, paprika, mustard
and other spices, which creates
a blackened flavorful coating.

“It’s fabulous,” he said. “It’s
beautiful to look at, it slices
nice, it’s just got wonderful
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In addition to smoked fish,
the shop at 824 Christian St.

will offer maple syrup, cheese,
tomato sauce and produce
from Vermont. Biederman
is receiving orders of butter
from France and local items
like bagels from Kaplan’s New
Model Bakery and pastries
from vegan Jewish baking
pop-up Lil’ Yenta’s.

“It’s more of a curation of
things that I would like to see,”
Biederman said.

once it is safe to do so.

Eugene Mopsik was walking
to the Italian Market with his
daughter on Christian Street
one weekend in December
when he saw the sign for
the new appetizing shop.

Intrigued, he ducked in and
struck up a conversation with
Biederman. When he learned about
her business idea, the New
York transplant was reminded
of the smoked fish shops he
frequented with his father on
the Lower East Side as a boy, and
of the smoked fish he sampled
during his world travels as a
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