This is a list of notable Jewish delis. A Jewish deli is a store that serves traditional Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine. This usually includes pastrami on rye, corned beef sandwiches, and other sandwiches, various salads such as tuna salad and potato salad, side dishes such as latkes, potato Kinishes and kugel, desserts such as black and white cookies and rugelach, as well as other dishes found in Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine. Jewish delis may serve kosher or kosher-style food. In the case of kosher-style delis, they also offer dairy and meat together even though this is against Jewish dietary law. It is these Jewish delis which serve Reuben sandwiches and noodle kugel, among other dishes.[1][2]
Ashkenazi Jews brought the deli to North America and popularized it within American culture.[2]
United States
California
- Brent's Deli – deli in Northridge, Los Angeles
- Canter's – Fairfax district of Los Angeles
- Langer's Deli – Westlake, Los Angeles
- Nate 'n Al – Beverly Hills
- D.Z. Akin's Delicatessen – San Diego, California
- Mort's Deli - Tarzana, California
Illinois
- Manny's Deli – South Loop/Near West Side, Chicago
Canada
- Dunn's – Montreal
- Chenoy's – Montreal
- Caplansky's Delicatessen – Toronto
- J&R Kosher Meat and Delicatessen – Montreal
- Reubens – Montreal
- Schwartz's – Montreal
- Shopsy's – Toronto
- Snowdon Deli – Montreal
- SumiLicious Smoked Meat & Deli – Toronto
- Wilensky's – Montreal
Defunct Jewish delis
- Adelman's Deli - on Kings Highway and Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn
- Bens De Luxe Delicatessen & Restaurant – Montreal. Closed in 2006
- Bloom's restaurant – London based deli with multiple locations. Last location in Golders Green closed in 2010.
- Carnegie Deli – Midtown Manhattan, near Carnegie Hall. Closed on December 31, 2016.
- Jerry's Famous Deli – Two locations in Los Angeles. Closed in 2020.
- Lindy's – Two locations in Manhattan. The original one closed in 1969 and their second location closed in February 2018.
- Loeser's Deli
- Main Deli Steak House – Montreal. Closed in 2023.
- Mort's Palisades Deli – A neighborhood fixture and Jewish deli located in Pacific Palisades, California, that closed in 2007.
- Reuben's Restaurant - Closed in 2001.
See also
- List of kosher restaurants
- Lists of restaurants
- Pastrami on rye – a classic sandwich made famous in the Jewish kosher delicatessens of New York City
- Save the Deli – a book about the decline of the Jewish delicatessen
References
- America's Best Jewish Delis Food & Wine, retrieved 20 February 2021^
- Ted Merwin. Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli^