The Zabar's Story 90 years, and 4 generations later, Zabar's family business is still going strong. Louis and Lillian Zabar Our father and mother, Louis and Lillian Zabar, started the business ba
ck in 1934, opening a 22-foot-wide shop along NYC'a Broadway at West 80th Street. Louis was a real stickler for quality, roasting his own coffee, and personally visiting smokehouses to sample and inspect the fish - rejecting far more than he accepted.
