Mill Basin Kosher Delicatessen

07/17/09

the Mill Basin Deli

by magicloop2009 at Citysearch

This place is closed on passover. Food is top qualitya nd great meat. They do not mix with dairy ever. Their parve stuff like pickles are great. This place gets busy so you may have to wait a while for your dinner or supper or whatever you wanna call it. The have cakes for birthday parties. Macaronia nd potato salads are great. I live near here, so I come often, but I don't like the cornbeef sandwich. I like the pastrami one better though. Many people from my table mill bason/bergen beach residents go here. You guys are right it is like an art gallery, just like a museum, even in the bathroom!!!!!! It's a family oreiented resturaunt,a nd I know many of the waitors/waitresses there. They do expect hige tips though. Their rainbow cookies are great. You can place an order form home or you can take out. the potato pancakes are ok, but I've tasted better ones before. They play music and they do have a backyard, (hardly ever used) and the mexican busboyis always cleaning. This place is clean, but I really doubt that alcoholic beverages are served here. My parents and driends love this resturaunt too. More of the older people come here than the younger. But otherwise a menu like a fiesta. I hate the cow slaw. Ummm the barbeque chicken wings here are the best and finger licking.

• Pros: Good food, good service, delicious coffee, glatt kosher
• Cons: Prices, corwds, noise, waiting, no outdoor seating......

01/13/09

Good food but way to expensive

by pilpez at Citysearch

I ordered a grilled chicken sandwich 11.50 now i wouldnt mind if the sandwich was a considerable portion

but it was an average size any place else would cost 5 or 6 bucks. also an order of fries for 4.25 which are very good and good portion but not worth the price also they had the nerve to charge me 1.50 for delivery

I mnot going to be ordering from them again

• Pros: good quality food
• Cons: over priced for type of food and portions

10/10/07

Best Kosher Deli

by artdealer at Citysearch

Reviewed by Irene Sax, NY Daily News

Best Bites for Less

Saturday, July 14th 2007, 4:03 PM

So I was wrong.

Last month, I wrote about the Diamond Dairy Luncheonette and said I don't often review kosher restaurants because they're usually too expensive for this column. Days later, I got a letter from Mark Schachner, owner of Brooklyn's Mill Basin Kosher Deli. Polite but distraught - "It was like a knife through my heart"- he said that, ounce for ounce, his burgers, hot dogs and fries cost less than those at McDonald's and Nathan's, among other places, and are fresher and of better quality.

This is my apology to Mr. Schachner. You're right. I'm wrong. And I can't wait to go back to your deli.

It's shiny-clean, with pink walls and a pleasant back garden. The staff is like family: A waitress glared when I tried to stop my husband from ordering both chopped liver and potato latkes. Not only do you get free bowls of coleslaw, macaroni salad and sour pickles, but the menu is studded with deals, like two hot dogs and a knish for $5.90 and a three-course early-bird dinner for $15.95.

Besides, the food is the best of its kind. It's not Per Se, but could Thomas Keller make chopped liver like this two-scoop serving, coarsely hand-chopped, sweetened with onions and served with cucumbers, tomatoes and red onions ($6.95)?

It's not Daniel, but could Daniel Boulud make a hamburger like this mammoth charred patty, tenderly pink in the middle, smothered with sauteed onions and served with long, skin-on fries that actually taste like potatoes ($8.95)?

Golden-rich chicken soup is dense with noodles ($3.60), and barbecued chicken ($14.25) is half a plump bird in a sweet, vinegary tomato glaze that only in Brooklyn would pass for barbecue sauce. I ordered kasha varnishkes and glazed carrots with it, and got so much I had to take half of everything home.

I was wrong, Mr. Schachner. Please let me come back to your restaurant.

• Pros: Great Food Great Art
• Cons: Some times busy and have to wait