We like the Second Avenue Kosher Deli for its pastrami, soul-warming chicken-in-the-pot, fat specials (hot dogs) served with sauerkraut and beans, cholent (a casserole of beef, potatoes, beans and barley), creamy chopped liver and the bowl of sour and half-sour pickles and pickled tomatoes that sits on every table for nibbling while you decide. more →
It's not on Second Avenue anymore, but everything else will be the same, promise the pastrami pros, and Toidy-Toid and Toid is an excellent address for a delicatessen. more →
To eat at the new Second Avenue Deli is to pass through a communal storehouse of memories, on a bridge of babkas from the past to the future. more →
Matzo brei, coleslaw, potato salad, chicken soup, blintzes, pastrami on rye, brisket on rye, roast turkey sandwich, kreplach, rugelach.
Few things are fully appreciated until they're gone. Two years after a fatal rent dispute shuttered the original... more →
