Every kosher table, mapped, with the hechsher on the door.

Jerusalem has one of the highest concentrations of kosher eateries in the world, and the overwhelming majority of restaurants in the city are kosher; the meaningful question is therefore not whether a place is kosher but which body certifies it and at what tier. Certification ranges from the Jerusalem Rabbinate (regular, Mehadrin, or the city's higher 'Mehuderet' tier) up to private badatzim such as the Eda Haredit, Beit Yosef, Rav Rubin and Rav Machpud. Diners choosing by stringency should check the specific hechsher posted in each establishment.

Tel Aviv-Yafo is Israel's most secular city, and unlike most of the country only about half of its eateries are certified kosher, so which places carry a hechsher, and from whom, genuinely matters here. The baseline certifier is the Tel Aviv Rabbinate (Rabbanut Tel Aviv), which supervises at regular and Mehadrin tiers; some establishments add a private Badatz (e.g. Beit Yosef) or Tzohar. This list covers roughly 500 kosher restaurants, cafes, and bakeries across the city.

New York City anchors the largest and most diverse kosher dining scene in the United States, spanning hundreds of restaurants across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the surrounding suburbs. Offerings range from glatt-kosher steakhouses and sushi bars in Midtown to Chalav Yisrael dairy cafes and pizza shops in Flatbush, Borough Park, and the Five Towns. Most establishments carry certification from the OU or a local vaad, and options run the full gamut of cuisines and price points.

South Florida is one of North America's largest kosher hubs, with dense clusters of restaurants and eateries across Miami-Dade and Broward/Palm Beach. Establishments are certified under a clean duopoly: Kosher Miami (KM), the Vaad HaKashrus of Miami-Dade, supervises Miami Beach, Aventura, Surfside, Sunny Isles and North Miami Beach, while ORB (Orthodox Rabbinical Board of Broward & Palm Beach) covers Hollywood, Hallandale, and Boca Raton. Options span dairy cafes, meat grills, pizza, sushi, bakeries and take-out.

New Jersey has one of the largest and most varied kosher dining scenes in the United States, spread across several distinct Orthodox communities rather than a single downtown. The main hubs are Bergen County (centered on Teaneck, Englewood, and Fair Lawn), Lakewood and greater Ocean County, Passaic and Clifton, and the Syrian and Sephardic community around Deal and Oakhurst on the Jersey Shore. Each hub runs its own local vaad, so a restaurant in Teaneck, one in Lakewood, and one in Deal will typically carry three different certifications. Options range from glatt steakhouses and Israeli grills to dairy pizza shops, sushi bars, bakeries, and prepared-food counters inside kosher supermarkets.

Paris has one of the largest kosher dining scenes in Europe, concentrated in the 17th and 19th arrondissements and across the eastern suburbs. Most of the city's kosher restaurants and pâtisseries are certified by the Beth Din de Paris (the Consistoire), whose seal is the mainstream standard, and the Consistoire keeps a live public register of every business it supervises.

Mexico City has one of the largest and most observant Jewish communities in Latin America, and its kosher dining scene is correspondingly deep. Establishments cluster in Polanco and Lomas del Chamizal inside the city proper, and across the western edge in Tecamachalco and Interlomas. The overwhelming majority of venues carry certification from Kashrut Maguen David (KMD), the dominant community authority, with additional oversight from the community Vaad and Jabad (Chabad).

Montreal has one of the largest and most established kosher scenes in North America, with more than one hundred certified restaurants, bakeries, delis, pizza and sushi spots, takeout counters and caterers. The dominant certifying agency is MK Kosher, operated by the Jewish Community Council of Montreal (the Vaad Ha'ir), whose MK symbol appears on the great majority of certified establishments in the city. Most listings in this guide are certified by MK, and the agency publishes a regularly updated dining directory.