This thread sounds a lot like the final meal requests for death row inmates... my favorite comfort food is probably those cinammon rolls in a tube. I used to love waking up on Saturday mornings with the smell of cinammon rolls wafting through the air...
My favorite comfort food is anything from Kenny & Ziggy's deli in the Galleria or This is It soulfood on W. Gray. Doesn't matter what, just ANYTHING from either of those restaurants!
Cold days...Caldo Any Christmas day...Tamales Beach Day...cold cuts sandwich w/sand and Doritos Any day...Tacos/Enchiladas/Totinos Pizza Sunday Morning...barbacoa Grandma's...pan dulce and coffee Cold oreo double stuff cookies, chewy chunky chocolate chip cookies, milk, vanilla ice cream
My parents love that place. Turns out one is a local boy and the other hails from a New York family that owned delis that my father frequented while growing up.
The one who is the local boy is someone my Mom used to teach. Everytime aI go there with my folks, they see at least 6 people they know. It's the best NY style deli the city of Houston has ever seen.
Agreed. I was trying to talk one of them into opening one in Austin; he said it might be an option. Don't know how serious he was, but they did ask about Katz's.
Man, them are fighting words. *ever* The original Alfreds was pretty damn good. I've known the family for 17 years. What a shame how Alfred's ended after he died. I'll have to go to Kenny and Ziggy's (never been), but I can honestly say that I've tried literally 10 different Reubens in New York and none of them even come close to the Kahn's Deli Reuben. We should go sometime. Kahn's has about 5 different Reubens, and easily the best Lox in the city. It's just a sandwich shop, though, so it is not a full-service deli. btw: Katz's is a joke.
I haven't been in about 18 years. From what I hear, many agree with you so I won't try it. Alfreds was very good, but my parents (native New Yorkers) swear that K & Z's is better. They say their Pastrami was way better than what they had on heir last trip to the Carnegie in NY.
Damn I'm hungry...Should get a burger (DQ), Fajitas (local Mexican restaurant) or brisket/ribs/suasage(local smoke house)...I have a 2nd round tourney gane @ 7:30 tonight.
What floor in the Galleria is this deli? Did you ever go to the Rice Blvd Alfred's? That was the original, from the '50s until about 1980. Alfred stopped running the show around 1981, and let his daughter take over. But when Alfred was running it, he had it set up like a meat/cheese market as well as restaurant. imo, Carnegie and Stages ruins their Hot Corned Beef and Hot Pastrami by steaming it too long and then leaving the entire brisquet out on a slicer. Afred's son at Kahn's Deli makes a Reuben using a process that no one else uses. He steams the beef to order.
Originally posted by heypartner What floor in the Galleria is this deli? It's on Post Oak Did you ever go to the University Blvd Alfred's? That was the original, from the '50s until about 1980. Alfred stopped running the show around 1981, and let his daughter take over. But when Alfred was running it, he had it set up like a meat/cheese market as well as restaurant. The one close to the Astrodome, right? We went there from 1968 on. As a kid, I particularly recall the long waits there. My parents were not happy when it closed. I think they tried the son's deli and weren't impressed. I'll have to ask them why.
Pastrami is my all time favorite lunch meat...I could seriously go for a pastrami sandwich with swiss cheese and spicy mustard...
Cohen, Alfred's at his peak had 3 deli's running at the same time. The original one was started in the 50s, and was in the Rice Village on Rice Blvd. His son has a small sandwich shop on Rice right now. It has pictures of the old store. It was a bakery, meat/cheese market, specialty grocery, and restaurant all in one. He opened the Stella Link one later, and that was the last surviving one.
My current comfort food here in New Zealand is the spinich and cream cheese muffin from a local lunch counter. Oh, my god, it's good! Tex-mex is my all-time comfort food, but I am basically out of luck for that now.
