Biarritz Restaurant Switches Hechsher To National Kosher Supervision
by CrownHeights.info
Following the announcement Friday that they will no longer be under the CHK Hechsher, Biarritz Restaurant in Crown Heights notified their clientele that they will be switching to National Kosher Supervision, under Rabbi Aaron D. Mehlman, as of today.
The change in Hechsher was made, according to Biarritz, at their request as they looked to expand their menu, and and were being constrained by the specific requirements of the CHK.
Read the restaurants announcement below:
National Kosher Supervision under Rabbi Aaron D. Mehlman is a somewhat controversial hechsher, and is not on the cRc list of advised Hechsheirim.
Not our community's standard
He is not on the standard of most people in CH
G.Singh
Thanks
Yossi A.
Very true. Most kashrus organizations don’t accept him as a reliable kashrus.
It is VERY unfortunate that there are those that don’t care. As long as you have a paper by ANY person calling himself a ‘RABBI’they will go inside & eat.
May Hashem protect us.
ה’ ירחם
Mushkie
Explain which standards! It’s milchig eatery. All cholov yisroel. Is some cholov yisroel not up to your standards? Do you not eat at certain pizza shops?! Stop with making silly comments that hurt another yid’s parnosa!! THAT is not ok and kosher!! The hechsher is used my several well known eateries.
What standards???
How about certification of restaurants open on shabbos? Still good enough or are you overreacting?
Mushkie
This eatery is closed on shabbos, so that is not a concern. Think of it this way, suppose a hechsher allows some eateries to have cholov stam (such as OU-D or as the OK gave Baskin Robbins), does that mean that hechsher is below standard when it states that this establishment is cholov yisroel?! Your comment of pointing fingers at this hechsher is illogical.
Let Me Guess
You strike me as the type that supports triangle K by buying flavored Vintage seltzer.
The reliability of a restaurant relies on the reliability of the certification giving it.
Broader and more diverse menu???
Broader and more diverse menu? Meaning allowing products that heretofore were not allowed due to high Chabad standards?
This is a very deceptive way to get people to patronize this restaurant now that it has a lower standard.
Neither Mehlman nor NKS even appear on the CRC list of accepted kosher supervision!!
This restaurant should not be serving Crown Heights.l, and will lead may r”lb to stumb.
P. McDonald
Nobody is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to go there, or for that matter to anybody else. The choice is yours. This is the USA not Iran
AH
So maybe, Mr. McDonald, we should extend that further. A restaurant named for you opens, calls itself kosher, and serves cheeseburgers? No problem, “no one is putting a gun to your head.” Someone opens a temple of avodah zarah and starts convincing people to go there? “Not my problem.” And so forth!
very disappointed
was going to tr something from them but not now.Melman cannot be trusted While its understandable the Chk is expensive and there are questions issues which will not be discussed there is Ok Ou which most trust rely upon .How is it that Melman became even a possibility? something is not right I see Biarritz either leaving Ch altogether or closing its doors maybe even by the end of Summer Goodbye!
Response to Mushkie
Rabbi melmans Hechsher is not up to te basic standards of a a Yirei Shomaim, how much more so the standards of a Chosid.
His hechsher is designed to make sure something is kosher to the bearest minimum of kosher standards, yes it 9s koaher but not on a high level.
These many lnpwn eateires you sprak of, theay are also a place where anny Yirei Shomaim should not eat.
Mushkie
This eatery is closed on shabbos, so that is not a concern here but there are heterim – mechira! Think of it this way, suppose a hechsher allows some eateries to have cholov stam (such as OU-D or as the OK gave Baskin Robbins), does that mean that hechsher is below standard when it states that this establishment is cholov yisroel?! Your comment of pointing fingers at this hechsher is illogical!
Mushkie
A true yirei shomayim (And certainly a true chosid) does not eat at ANY eatery. But we are not at that level. We buy baked goods, we eat take out foods, eat catered meals at simchas and sit in restaurants, and children eat in schools and camps. All such places rely on heterim, rely on the goy’s trustworthiness, and rely on multiple halachic leniencies, especially when catered meals on shabbos.
Menachem Shmei
We are the most welcoming community in the wolrd. Kudos to Biarritz for brining Rabb Mehlman to our community. Please know that if you just praise the Rebbe and Chabad, you will be welcome! That is our only rule. Truth matters nothing to us!
P. McDonald
Got that right