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JACOB’S CLASSIC MARKET: Afternoon Delight In A Food Market By Marylynne Newmark, Food Critic - Aventura Digest
Celebrate Aventura Arts & Cultural Center’s new season at...
CURTAIN UP! Sept. 25 • Noon - 4:00 PM It’s all playing this season at the Aventura Arts & Culutral Center, and CURTAIN UP! is when the excitement begins. Over 30,000 attended performances last year during the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center’s inaugural season. Now, you can join the fun as the 2011-2012 season begins with CURTAIN UP, a full day of FREE festivities with live performances, puppeteers, ticket give-aways, food, free gifts and more! CURTAIN UP has something for everyone. For young families, the fun starts with complimentary face painting by Curly Sue and Friends, spectacular puppet shows and story telling time with Family Fun’s Princess Reads-A-Lot. Music lovers will enjoy live performances from a wide range of performers including a Barbara Streisand tribute by artist Carla DelVillaggio, Orchestra Miami’s renowned chamber trio and rising talents of tomorrow from the Aventura Marketing Council’s Young Stars. Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida adds fire to their signature ballet style with a sizzling flamenco performance, and laughter is in the air with stand-up comedy from some of today’s top comic talents. “Over 800 people came out for our first Curtain Up! event last year,” notes Steve Clark, General Manager of the Aventura Center. “This year promises to be even bigger and better, as many first year patrons return to try winning free tickets and to secure the best seats for the new season.”
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Florida and I’m usually called upon to drop in on heard about us. were restaurants, sample foods, and write an We opinion. I love doing it and hearing flattered and from readers as to whether they agree or did a great job not. for him. We still Imagine my surprise when the hear from him, Aventura Digest asked me to drop in on and have Jacob’s Classic Market in Hallandale’s shipped some of Gulfstream Village. A market?!!! his favorite I soon learned that Jacob’s was far foods to him more than a market. This visionary food while he was on emporium is an epicurean delight with a s s i g n m e n t . ” homemade wonderments and exotic Resnick is quick foods from Europe and the Mideast not to add that Isaac’s department is well, next time. found elsewhere in South Florida. equally pleased to cater small dinners General manager David Resnick First of all, the shop sparkles with and family events, and can make great joined me. This a man with a reputation of his own as food manager and wine cleanliness and order. The enticing fresh recommendations to fit every budget. fruit and vegetable bins are creatively This month, Jacob’s market is aficianado for kosher restaurants and filled like multi-colored works of art. revving up for the Jewish High Holy markets during the past forty years. “We There’s not a blemish to be seen. Days. Customers are already requesting worked very hard to make Jacob’s Healthy eating is everywhere. catering menus, and Chef Isaac suggests Classic Market Number One in its field,” he says. “We have a multiPackaged nuts and dried fruit greet placing your orders early. you at the door. A wagon of olive So, what did I order on my Jacob’s talented team of dedicated people who choices invites you to fill container adventure? I circled center stage several made this happen, and customers who samples to share with those at home. times. with choices so vast and inviting. love us almost as much as we love Large refrigerated open bins are Well, since I am a fish and veggie lover, I them.” Every product at Jacob’s Classic stocked with fresh soups and packaged settled on the Salmon Bruschetta, ready-to-go foods prepared fresh daily added a veggie couscous and freshly Market, whether fresh or packaged, is in Jacob’s Glatt Kosher kitchens by Chef chopped Israeli salad. As they say in Glatt Kosher and tightly scrutinized by a Isaac. Or, you can choose from a Miami, “Que rico!” Absolutely mashgiach (a rabbi who guarantees that selection of beautifully displayed delilcioso! Or, shifting to Tel Aviv, “Tov everything is according to kashruth (strict kosher dietary law). So, can you steaming hot entrees or cool crisp m’Od!! salads ready to eat in the store’s familyOf course my meal could not end go to a higher authority? style sit-down corner or in a shady spot there. My nose brought me to the onJacob’s Classic Market is very visible just north of the entrance. premises bakery with its array of from Biscayne Boulevard, at the south Chef Isaac advised me that aside freshly-baked breads, cakes, cookies, side of Gulfstream Village, right on the from his daily schedule, creating the bobkas, chocolate-filled cigars and dark Dade/ Broward county line on Biscayne pans of great ready-made food for chocolate covered nuts. Chocoholic that Boulevard/ Federal Highway. Drive by, immediate takeout, Jacob’s has a I am, the nuts won out. but better yet, go in. More than a special crew ready to cater Kosher While standing there, I took mental market, Jacob’s is a great place to grab a weddings, bar mitzvahs, brisses and note of the freshly baked pizza sold by bite, shop, and bring home some the pie or by the slice. Uh-oh….that afternoon delight. Surprise your family. shivahs . “One of our most memorable parties veggie pizza was flirting with me. Oh, They’ll love you for it! was for CNN’s Wolf Blitzer,” said Resnick. For further information, you can check the store’s website at “He was visiting South www.jacobsclassicmarket.com or call the store at 954-456-2099 for pre-holiday hours.