(This venue is closed.) Wall-to-wall walnuts: A slice of walnut strudel ($1.80, at roughly $6 per pound) was fat with moist filling, though the pastry dough was proportionately sturdy. Previously: Kichel (rhymes with pickle; below; $1), a brittle baked flatbread topped with brown sugar, was not as sweet as its cookielike Mexican cousin from Elmhurst. A poppy hamentash (not shown; $1.50) had rich, crumbly dough and — even though Moishe's was closing for the evening — seeds that were still fairly moist, with just the right amount of bitterness. The hamentashen are even better earlier in the day, I've found.
Moishe's Home Made Kosher Bake Shop
115 Second Ave. (6th-7th Sts.), Manhattan
212-505-8555
