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    Big Boys Deli

    3.0 (2 reviews)

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    The best store in Utica. The food fresh in so good the service is perfect the best food you can have

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    Essen NY Deli

    Essen NY Deli

    3.7(122 reviews)
    2.4 miMidwood
    $$

    They open at noon on Sunday and they welcome you in. When you're seated, you get pickles and…read morecoleslaw. There's also a handwashing station that has little pieces of bread next to it, which is very great for a Kosher restaurant. I've never had fried kreplach before, but this was amazing. It tasted wonderful with the fried onions. The pastrami is also good with mustard. And don't forget to get a Dr. Brown's soda, which compliments any meal.

    I met a group of thirty people for a celebratory lunch at Essen. There were delicious pickles on…read moreplates throughout each table of 15. There were two small plates of coleslaw at the other end of the table. We requested coleslaw for our end of the table and the very nasty Hispanic waiter said it's over there. We requested some for our end of the table - the nasty waiter begrudgingly brought it about 10 minutes later. Two people sitting opposite us ordered one kasha knish each but were not told the restaurant did not have any. Three potato knishes, two square and one round were served instead without any explanation or request for them. I ordered what should have been a restaurant special, pastrami, coleslaw and mustard served on an open knish. The knish was served ice cold, seeming to have just been pulled from the refrigerator and cut open. I asked for a knife to cut into the food but it never arrived. The pastrami was a fatty, inedible mess, next to no meat, just spices on room temperature meat fat. It was awful. The coleslaw and mustard were fine. Unfortunately, the dish as a whole was unpleasantly inedible. The same Hispanic waiter was rude to the person sitting next to me and the person sitting opposite me. He seemed intent on making it clear that customers were an inconvenience to him. While we were a large group other than us the restaurant was empty. With so few customers you'd think they'd at least make an effort with the food or basic courteous service. Nah, didn't happen. I would have liked to recommend Essen as a great kosher restaurant but I can't. My meal was awful, the waiter rude. Coleslaw was great, but nothing else was. I was very disappointed.

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