Posted on 10/15/2009 9:40:55 AM PDT by BGHater
One vote for the thriving Shapiro’s on Meridian in Indianapolis.
I never realized there were that many Jews in Delhi...
Jerry’s Deli in LA is a small chain...good stuff, but really expensive...I go there a lot. Not the best deli in the world, but pretty good, even by NYC standards.
Wow! I remember them from years ago. Now I look for kosher food in Skokie.
Too big to fail?
The rueben sounds pretty good, the rest, not so much.
I prefer my chicken soup Vietnamese style, without “floaters”...
This IS an NPR report, so take it as such. Nevertheless, I am eagerly anticipating my trip next week to two hot beds of Deli-dom, South Florida and Manhattan.
Living in the deli Black Hole that is the Bay Area, I need some decent food, not corned tofu on 9-grain with stone-ground, organically grown mustard!
I must have my Reubens!
It’s not kosher, but I’m not Jewish!
The only area synagogue sponsors a festival where they fly in pastrami and other treats from NYC every year - very popular event, I think.
I like Benjie’s in Santa Ana, Calif.
The first time I sampled the food from Ben’s Best was in the early 60s, when Ben was alive and running the place, and I was a little leaguer.
He’s long since died and his son runs the place. It’s still good, but quite pricey for what it is.
I’d recommend Katz’s Deli in Manhattan: corned beef (or pastrami, if you prefer) piled four inches deep on rye with mustard, served with the best, freshest crackling cold Kosher pickles you ever had. Get a potato or kasha knish on the side, and enjoy with a Dr. Brown’s cream soda. It’s Jewish Heaven, but it may also be the reason why so many of my relatives had four-digit cholesterol readings.
Schwartz’s in Montreal.
Alas, we lack such an establishment in the DFW Metroplex...
Maybe they can get some stimulus money from their “Messiah”
Best food on the planet, bar none. But, yes, becoming difficult to find in this age of gustatory, eternally dieting, an@l retentives.
“Kasha Varnishkes: Buckwheat grains and onions sauteed in schmaltz and tossed with bowtie pasta. Served with gravy if you want it to taste like anything.”
Gravy? Nonsense. The secret is frying up several pounds of onions.
Sort of makes the point;
I can walk to two Pho restaurants (once past the Thai and Chinese and Mexican and Burger King and, now, Lebanese) but it's a twenty mile drive and five dollars to park for any decent deli. (No, the deli does NOT get the five bucks)
Excepting Burger King, I enjoy them all but a real kosher deli is a thing of beauty and the generosity of one deli owner kept me fed for two years of college.
I just had a pastrami on rye for lunch. I love rye bread, almost all sandwiches taste better on rye - except maybe peanut butter and jelly.
kosher bump
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