RaveBookforum...monumental ... The Dairy Restaurant...has the quality of an illuminated Haggadah (itself a sort of menu). Because Katchor is a wonderful cartoonist, his book can be looked at as well as read. In that sense it is a chronicle of Katchor’s distinctively blocky yet delicate characters, drawn from the Hebrew Bible as well as history, wending their stolidly weathered, gray-washed way from the Euphrates valley through the Negev desert...to Middle Europe and finally New York City’s Lower East Side ... The Dairy Restaurant is a trove of fun facts ... haunted by a sense of the vanished and ephemeral ... The visualization of these ghostly eating places—their storefronts and signageeven more than their interiors—may be The Dairy Restaurant’s meat, as it were. Katchor, however, is far more than a simple lox-and-bagel Jew.
