Nice space, little delicatessen shop in the front. My wife got a brunch special: bagels, omelet, hashbrowns, and an enormous piece of very nice smoked whitefish. She was very happy. My friend Suzanne had the stuffed cabbage, which looked very nice and she enjoyed it. My friend Jerry had the beef brisket dinner, which was a generous portion but the only DRY Jewish-style brisket that I have ever seen. I went very traditional — potato knish, pastrami on rye with coleslaw on the side, and a generous piece of noodle kugel to follow. The knish was nice (the accompaniment of gravy was unfamiliar) but I think that it may have been zapped rather than oven reheated. The heat disipates faster. The pastrami sandwich was very good, not oversized, tasty but a little dry but the Gulden’s helped that (just French’s yellow mustard and Gulden’s — no regular deli mustard). Heck, I like Gulden’s just fine ordinarily but it was not what I expected to see there. The noodle kugel was great, although obviously not as good as my mother’s and mine.

So, a mostly positive experience. We got rugalach and Joyva halvah from the front counter on the way out. My wife was very happy, and squealing over the whitefish to her mother in Hartford CT the next time she called.