Double Chai for Mill Basin Kosher Deli
There are special anniversaries in Jewish life, and aside from the Bar Mitzvah age of 13, none is more important than those related to the number 18…the Hebrew number Chai, which also means Life.
This month, Mill Basin Kosher Deli, one of Brooklyn’s last, and best, Jewish delis, celebrates a double-chai birthday, turning 36 years old. Mazel Tov!
You can read more about my visit to Mill Basin Kosher Deli here. I last went about a month ago, after surfing Rockaway. That hit the spot, lemme tell you.
As part of their celebrations, they’ve teamed with with Save the Deli to offer something special to their customers.
For the rest of October, the following deals apply:
-An $11.95 special dinner plate with chicken, brisket, turkey, or roast beef, served with potato, vegetable, kasha, and pudding. Includes unlimited macaroni salad and coleslaw, plus pickles.
-2 for 1 Hot Dogs
-2 for 1 takeout pound of hot pastrami
-2 for 1 pastrami burgers
-2 for 1 takeout turkey salad, tuna salad, macaroni salad
And my favorite deal. Any catering order over $99.95 gets a free copy of Save the Deli! Considering it sells in stores for $24 plus tax, that’s a huge bonus. Go on, stock that sukkah with deli!
October 5th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Hi David
I have just happened upon your cause and felt it to be so noble an effort that i decided to at least say thanks. As an expat Brit who misses his salt beef and lockshen pudding but has filled the gap with US deli food i figure i should say thanks. I have not visited a US city in years without first checking the status of the kosher deli scene. I have my own ‘good deli guide’ fashioned on Egon Ronay (being a European). Overall i feel oversold on US deli and feel we Brits produce a better pickle, a better corned beef (salt beef), a better rye and a better mustard. I just hope you got to sample the real best of british. Hope to catch you in DC.
Andy
October 6th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Let’s all hop on a Concord and get some British Beef
October 6th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Mazel tov and chag samaach! Love, Doug
October 8th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
The Mill Basin Deli is the last of the great delis of the area. I grew up in the neighborhood (a bit further up towards South Shore HS) and well remember the great delis, George and Sid in the Georgetown section, Joe’s South Shore (across from South Shore HS), and down in Canarsie, Grabstein’s. When I was very, very young I remember George and Sid from their original location on Church Avenue in Brownsville, and Appy’s (the original name of Joe’s) both at that location and at the original place up on the border of East Flatbush and Crown Heights. Also reminds me of Cousin’s on Avenue D, and Victor’s on Utica Avenue while I’m in a nostalgic mood.
The corned beef and kishke was to die for at all those places. Like they’d say (at least before I got thrown out of Hebrew School) “Kol hakavod” for keeping the memories alive and for the great site.
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