This is a mediocre kosher bakery. Nothing here is great; everything is fair, for the most part. It's obviously a Chasidic bakery, under the supervision of the Satmar CRC kosher agency, and what appeared to be the owner or manager didn't greet anyone coming in the store who wasn't visibly Chasidic. He had no problem chatting it up with his Chaim Yankel mikveh buddy, but when I came in, not a hello, not even a vus machsti (Yiddish for "how are you?"). Nothing at all, gornisht mit gornisht. Horrible way to run a business. I didn't like how the numerous dekelech and burekas were left out in the open on disposable aluminum sheet pans. Any schmo can go in there and cough and sneeze on these baked items, as they are left totally uncovered and out in the open, exposed to all sorts of germs and nastiness. Highly unsanitary. Hard to believe sometimes that our people developed an early public health code in the book of Leviticus. I purchased two small burkeas called "Salty Cheese." (It wasn't salty, and was a blend of farmer's cheese and perhaps feta). They were smaller than the regular cheese ones, and were baked into little half moon shapes. These weren't bad, but I'm sure they would've been a lot better fresh out of the oven. The dough was a little overdone, but was very flaky, so flaky, in fact, that I lost a few small shards to the sidewalk when I sampled them. The apple turnover was respectable, although the diced apple filling was definitely not made of fresh apple, but tasted like commercial bakery apple goop. The dough was flaky, but as an aggregate, the breakfast pastry was just passable. I grabbed (or "chapt") a tuna sandwich from the refrigerator case. The tuna was fresh, but was the inferior light, as opposed to white, variety, similar in consistency and appearance to cat food, and it was accompanied by lettuce and tomato on a very unique flat-ish roll covered in sesame seeds on top and bottom. They went to town on those sesame seeds, and I thought it was a very nice touch. It was accompanied by a quarter of a sour pickle; the pickle was very good, but I would have liked more than a thin sliver of pickle. At least a whole or half of a pickle would have been less likely to play into stereotypes about my people. The Squeezr apple juice they sold had a weird, plastic flavor to it, almost like the brine from a jar of manzanilla olives. Absolutely disgusting. Ordinarily, I like Squeezr fruit punch, but alas, they didn't have this superior Squeezr flavor. My order came to almost 10 dollars, which was a little steep for what I got. A bottle of juice, a tuna fish sandwich, 2 little cheese puffs, and an apple turnover should NOT cost that much. I plan on reporting the store to the DCA, and they should be ashamed to use duplicitous weights and measures, which is an egregious sin in the Torah.
This is a mediocre kosher bakery. Nothing here is great; everything is fair, for the most part. It's obviously a Chasidic bakery, under the supervision of the Satmar CRC kosher agency, and what appeared to be the owner or manager didn't greet anyone coming in the store who wasn't visibly Chasidic. He had no problem chatting it up with his Chaim Yankel mikveh buddy, but when I came in, not a hello, not even a vus machsti (Yiddish for "how are you?"). Nothing at all, gornisht mit gornisht. Horrible way to run a business. I didn't like how the numerous dekelech and burekas were left out in the open on disposable aluminum sheet pans. Any schmo can go in there and cough and sneeze on these baked items, as they are left totally uncovered and out in the open, exposed to all sorts of germs and nastiness. Highly unsanitary. Hard to believe sometimes that our people developed an early public health code in the book of Leviticus. I purchased two small burkeas called "Salty Cheese." (It wasn't salty, and was a blend of farmer's cheese and perhaps feta). They were smaller than the regular cheese ones, and were baked into little half moon shapes. These weren't bad, but I'm sure they would've been a lot better fresh out of the oven. The dough was a little overdone, but was very flaky, so flaky, in fact, that I lost a few small shards to the sidewalk when I sampled them. The apple turnover was respectable, although the diced apple filling was definitely not made of fresh apple, but tasted like commercial bakery apple goop. The dough was flaky, but as an aggregate, the breakfast pastry was just passable. I grabbed (or "chapt") a tuna sandwich from the refrigerator case. The tuna was fresh, but was the inferior light, as opposed to white, variety, similar in consistency and appearance to cat food, and it was accompanied by lettuce and tomato on a very unique flat-ish roll covered in sesame seeds on top and bottom. They went to town on those sesame seeds, and I thought it was a very nice touch. It was accompanied by a quarter of a sour pickle; the pickle was very good, but I would have liked more than a thin sliver of pickle. At least a whole or half of a pickle would have been less likely to play into stereotypes about my people. The Squeezr apple juice they sold had a weird, plastic flavor to it, almost like the brine from a jar of manzanilla olives. Absolutely disgusting. Ordinarily, I like Squeezr fruit punch, but alas, they didn't have this superior Squeezr flavor. My order came to almost 10 dollars, which was a little steep for what I got. A bottle of juice, a tuna fish sandwich, 2 little cheese puffs, and an apple turnover should NOT cost that much. I plan on reporting the store to the DCA, and they should be ashamed to use duplicitous weights and measures, which is an egregious sin in the Torah.