Another local upstart, Wise Sons of SF, is really trying, and we encourage all attempts. Peppery and nicely marbled, they’re on the right track. Even use Gulden’s, which was the premium stuff growing up.
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And then I found Manny’s of Chicago:
Alan Sherman woulda loved this one. Mountain peak on the right is a meat knish with gravy. I kept checking my pulse; sandwich heaven!
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Knish with gravy? My arteries are twinging from here. It looks amazing.
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I told the guys at Manny’s my tale of NorCal woe. Their incredulousness overrode any Chicago/New York rivalry: “you gotta get outta there, Bud”.
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That’s kinda how we felt about the Refuge in Palo Alto. My wife called it the Refuse, but I reminded her they’re trying, and we must be supportive. And then I hit the Carnegie at the Mirage in Vegas:
The Quest continues.
I have a friend who went to Manny’s every Sunday with his mom. She lived into her mid 90’s, so I wouldn’t worry too much about that knish.
He still goes but now he takes his daughter.
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Absolutely. Boingboingers are the best; could you imagine the lunch conversation we’d have? Of course we’d need a booth like the table from Strangelove, and a kosher place to include those who swing that way.
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dear lord, please don’t send people to Rubin’s as an example of a good kosher deli. Nothing is made in house, and the product they do get in is not even remotely close to the caliber of NY, or even some CT, delis. I’m sad for people that keep kosher in Boston about just how awful the food is here compared to NY. You’re not missing out on Zaftig’s either. It’s Disney meets deli, but mostly Disney. Only decent deli we have is Michael’s, and I am cautiously excited for Mamaleh’s, coming to Kendall Square.
are there any decent places on the penninsula? i’ll be back there for a good long while (mountain view) but it’s been a decade since i’ve lived there. i’m gettin’ the pastrami Honger 
Parkway Deli in Silver Spring is your best bet for deli sandwiches. The cookies aren’t the best, but they’ll do in a pinch. (Go to Shalom Kosher in Silver Spring if you need a Black and White cookie or a knish.) There’s some Armenian food in the region, but the only reliable places I’ve seen are Lebanese-Armenian restaurants, not pastrami-slinging delis. (The gyros are good.)
Nobody remembers Bernstein’s on Essex? With carmine-colored Rumanian pastrami, and Chinese waiters wearing kippot. I heard a rumor that they invented “kosher chinese food.”
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I’m listening…
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yes, that’s it. just across from the Great Escape, if you’re familiar.
that video is outstanding. i must have been alive while she was on the air, but i never saw her show.
The whole area around there used to have a lot of Jewish establishments. Virtually everything is gone, and now instead there’s a Home Depot, Bed Bath & Beyond, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Marshall’s, Whole Foods…you get the picture.
The White Palace Grill (1939, so even older than Manny’s) is still a couple of blocks away. I have a friend who is a maniac for diners, and it’s one of her favorites. She’s not Jewish, though, and neither is that diner.
Chicago trivia: a block further down from that photo, on the same side of the street, is the Chicago Fire Department Training Academy, where they train firefighters. Lots of fake building setups to train on, etc. Kind of freaky if you drive by while one of the sections is on fire!
It’s on – yes indeedy – the site of Mrs. O’Leary’s barn.
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I keep finding more and more Tennessee Jewish tidbits (beyond my own family history there of course)
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one more reason to be suspicious of you people …
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yo, i heard they have to have sandwich licenses and there are government vans that go around detecting if they have a sandwich and shit.
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I’m think more like now we know the REAL reason for the Edict of Expulsion
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Please elaborate – for all I know I’ve already been hitting 'em.
