About KosherAtlas
KosherAtlas is a free worldwide guide to certified kosher restaurants: currently 2,189 listings across 14 cities, each one shown with its certifying agency, kosher type, and the practical details a kosher diner actually needs.
Why we built it
Finding kosher food in an unfamiliar city usually means stale blog posts, closed restaurants, and listings that never mention the one thing that matters: who certifies the place. KosherAtlas was built around that missing detail. The hechsher is the first thing on every listing, followed by whether the restaurant is meat, dairy or pareve, and attributes like glatt, cholov yisroel and pas yisroel, so you can decide to your own standard. If any of those terms are unfamiliar, our plain-language guide to kosher terms explains them.
Where the data comes from
Certification status comes from the certifying bodies themselves and from public registers, never from crowd tags or review sites, which routinely mislabel kosher-style venues as kosher. Our current sources include:
- New York: local vaadim including the Vaad Harabonim of Queens, plus established kosher directories that publish the hashgacha per listing.
- Miami / South Florida: Kosher Miami (the Vaad HaKashrus of Miami-Dade) and the ORB (Orthodox Rabbinical Board of Broward and Palm Beach).
- Paris: the public register of the Beth Din de Paris (Consistoire).
- London: the KLBD (London Beth Din), the Federation (KF), the Sephardi Kashrut Authority and Kedassia.
- Los Angeles: the RCC (Rabbinical Council of California), Kosher LA and OK West Coast.
- Toronto: COR (the Kashruth Council of Canada).
- Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: the city rabbinates, Tzohar, and Israel's leading restaurant directories, with the specific badatz shown where confirmed.
How verification works
Each listing records the source it came from and the date we last checked it, which is shown on the page. Where we can confirm the specific certifying agency, we name it. Where a place is listed as kosher in public sources but we could not yet confirm the exact hechsher, the listing says so plainly: it is marked "Kosher, agency unverified" rather than pretending to a certainty we do not have.
Kosher status changes: restaurants close, change hands, and drop or switch certification. We refresh our sources regularly, but no directory replaces the certificate on the wall. The in-date teudah on site is always the final word.
Who is behind it
KosherAtlas is built by Raphael Sebban, a food enthusiast and mini chef who travels the world looking for the best kosher spots. The first-hand reviews on the site, marked with the KosherAtlas rating, are places he has actually eaten at, with honest scores for food, service and budget.
Corrections and suggestions
Spotted a closed restaurant, a wrong hechsher, or a place we are missing? We genuinely want to know: accuracy is the whole point of this site. Reach us at raph@raphh.com.