I came across this deli when I was visiting family over the summer. Excellent food and service!

I came across this deli when I was visiting family over the summer. Excellent food and service!  Read Less

I've learned one thing dining in Saratoga Springs (well a few if you read these reviews). there is generally a whitewashing of ...  Read More

I've learned one thing dining in Saratoga Springs (well a few if you read these reviews). there is generally a whitewashing of everything that has a remote angle of ethnic dining (Solevo and a few others excepted. ) here. I really was curious how someone would try to do a Jewish deli in Saratoga (I tried the late Parkside Deli but the prices were laughable. ). but my skepticism kept me at Gershon's in Schenectady if I needed the "fix". So I finally buckled. and a lot of what I suspected came true. yeah you can get a few of the basic goodies like corned beef, tounge, pastrami, decent rye, Doc Brown's and knishes. However, if you come from an area with a real Jewish deli, this place doesn't really feel anything more like a pleasant generic sandwich shop with baked goods you can find in Bronxville and Darien CT (very milk-toast Wonder Bread towns if you catch my drift. ). There's no deli display case of herring, Cole slaw, smoked fish, knishes, pickles, etc etc etc etc.  The meat is clearly not made in house (a brisket takes hours to cook. but I get even Katz's uses New World Provisions). when I ordered the corned beef sandwich I was asked "hot or cold". ehhhhhhhh. I don't know any deli (. even mine back in Connecticut) that would ever serve a cold corned beef sandwich. I was also asked for "yellow (aka French's) or brown mustard". c'mon seriously? Yellow mustard at a northeast Jewish deli is like asking for a salad with sprouts in these places. The corned beef was sliced paper thin with zero fat (I mean not a trace of fat. a clue it's not made in house. you aren't at a deli to diet folks. ) and was reheated. The half sour pickle was more like a quarter sour (most delis I know do the full sour salt and garlic no vinegar brine that makes you wince. or least a potent half sour like Gershon's doles out with their sandwiches) To be fair. this is a pleasant setting next to Northshire Books (a real gem of a bookstore. ), I would come here for a coffee and some of their baked stuff. I think as a tourist deli it will work fine. for the folks who live up here and grew up downstate, Montreal, Hartford, Boston, Cleveland, New Haven etc etc. this isn't really close to what we remember as a Jewish deli. The owner is a good egg. but I'm sticking to Gershon's (20 miles in Schenectady) and Rein's back in Connecticut. Even Ben and Bills Deli at the Price Chopper in Saratoga Springs has a deli case. Their claim that "we're as real as any deal you'd find in Manhattan". I suggest you go to Sarge's Deli in Manhattan (Murray Hill) or even Katz's in Woodbridge CT (New Haven), Broadway is not even remotely similar (literally and figuratively. ).  Read Less

A solid choice for a sandwich on Broadway, assuming the ordering process becomes more efficient over time. (It would help if th...  Read More

A solid choice for a sandwich on Broadway, assuming the ordering process becomes more efficient over time. (It would help if there was one person taking orders, and a second processing payment.) A small menu is divided between Jewish deli classics and crowd pleasers like a Cran-Turkey Panini.I got the pastrami, which comes with provolone and was nicely grilled to melt the cheese. The meat was nothing special.. salty and tender, but none of the glistening fat and crunchy crust bits that mark a house cured pastrami. Comes with cole slaw on the sandwich which I didn't mind, but you might. Requested mustard with mixed in horseradish was served on the side, and without the horseradish.I'll probably continue getting my deli sandwiches at Ben and Bills inside Price Chopper on Ballston Ave, which has a much bigger selection at comparable prices. But they don't have the Broadway atmosphere and don't grill the bread.  Read Less