The Bagel Delicatessen & Restaurant

Nothin' special. I would be hard-pressed to spend $10 again on a sandwich with potato salad from a carton. Pickle was good though. I probably just ordered the wrong thing.

After perusing their web site and seeing some of the other critques, I thought I would add my two cents.

Visited this restaurant for the first time yesterday, Friday, March 1st.  Orginally from NY, I thought, oh good, a deli with all the usual wonderful deli items.  We started with Matzo ball soup, no noodles, this was good but not great. The matzo balls did have a different sort of taste but the broth was the stand out.  Then onto matzo brie, we like it well done, like Mom used to make.  It was mushy and broken up, we are used to a pancake type matzo brie.  Then the kasha varnishkas, how surprised we were to see it came to the table in a brown sort of broth.  If you put pasta in a broth it will be soggy, hello!  And so it was.  Not light and fluffy mixed with kasha.  Next, we tried the kasha knish, the bottom was soggy, not crispy.  And finally a cheese blintze.  Again, not crispy and a bit soggy.  What is the story, are they microwaving everything to make it soggy.  Needless to say, we will not return and was so surprised to see the place packed.  Maybe would have been better off with a pastrami sandwich.

Onward in search of a decent Jewish deli in Denver!

I have to say I'm not that familiar with Jewish Delis and the different types of food served.  This was my first real experience.  I went there with the DTC lunch club.

So, if you begin reading this and start thinking this chick has no idea what she is talking about.  Well, I'm busted because I don't.  If you are totally lost about what is what on the menu, as I was,  they have handy dandy definition area.  

I ordered the Triple D (aka Pam Anderson - just kidding I made that up, I'm pretty sure it stands for Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives)  to get a taste of a couple of different things.  As the name implies it has 3 items on it.  Below is the rating for each one:

1.  Matzo Ball Soup - the soup itself was a little bland but I think that's they way it's supposed to be.  The matzo balls were really good.  
2.  Meat Knish - meat filled pastry dough.  My favorite on the plate.  I'm a bread/pastry girl and I could eat a whole plate of them.  
3.  Kishke - I have no idea what is in their rendition of it as I have found out it can be made various ways.  Their definition said "kind of like stuffing".  Well, it kind of was like stuffing.  "Kind of" being the key words here.  Pretty tasty but there was something about the texture that I wasn't crazy about.  

We had a large table and the service was good.  The sandwiches that others at the table ordered were absolutely huge.  It looked like four people could easily split one.  I hope to go back and try other items and give them another star or two.