Steve Stein’s Famous Deli

Great value for a catering platter! For 9 bucks a person I received a well composed platter with corned beef, roast beef, turkey and two cheeses. It came with rye bread and challah rolls, pickles, olives, ample cole slaw and potato salad and condiments. I ordered for 12 and could have easily fed 18 people well. I had enjoyed their corned beef years ago and ordered by phone after searching on the web. I will definitely order platters again (I’m not in the neighborhood to be a casual diner).

I go to Steve Steins Deli sometimes with my father.
I think it’s pretty clean and always a quick, easy meal.
The food is nothing special but if you are looking to go in and out quickly it’s the ideal place to go.
They also have cold cuts you can bring home to the family. They have fruits too. It’s like a mini supermarket.
The pasta salad is pretty good! And you can always count on Browns cherry soda /​cream soda and root beer!

Well all I have to say is that today 5÷21÷16 will be the last day that I buy anything from this place! I made a 53.00 purchase of deli meat believe it or not and when I got home I realized that the young lady who waited on me gave me roast beef instead of corned beef at this discovery I called the deli to make them aware of the mix up so they could possibly start cutting what I truly wanted which was the corned beef so I would not have to wait long. So I the young lady who answered the phone told me she was getting the owner, well let me tell you this guy Steve is a piece of work not only was he nasty and rude which was a surprise since seeing him less than twenty minutes ago and was so pleasant, when I tried to explain what took place he said «you got what you asked for and I remember because I took your order «. When I told him he didn’t take my order a young lady did he seemed to get more upset with me and then he says «once it leaves the store I can’t take it back all I can do is throw it out» which I understood all I wanted was what I ordered I don’t even like roast beef! He then hang the phone up on me never letting me get three consecutive words in during the exchange! Then I arrived at the store expecting a different result face to face but I was sorely mistaken. After an attempt to have the conversation with Steve I soon learned that this would be impossible I was embarrassed by the way he spoke to me as a paying customer and not only will I not be returning but I will also speak to the sales guys that use them for their party trays! He made me feel like a child who has done something wrong, when the only thing I did wrong was choosing this establishment in the first place

My favorite place for one stop shopping for Lox, salmon, bagels, and veggies.
The place is deli and restaurant. They have a wide assortment of lunchmeat and kosher items.
The restaurant is small but nice, you can order a quick sandwich and sit down to enjoy it.
This will be my deli for my bagels and lox!

The fish is good however they have dirty black ketchup filled in Heinz bottle. So dirty. MAKE SURE TO BRING YOUR OWN KETCHUP.

I am a regular here and a long time family friend. Steve takes great pride in his house made deli meats and it shows in things like the cornbeef. His baker Stephon makes a killer cinnamon roll. The restaurant area usually has fast friendly service and their great hoagies are the unexpected star of the menu. If you’re in the neighborhood and looking for an alternative to the big chain grocery stores or want something to eat besides wawa this is the place to stop. And as always if you have any questions or concerns don’t be afraid to say something, it’s a family run business and they take great pride in that.

Nice and clean store and Café. Got a Bagel with cream cheese and lox. It was fresh and delicious. While I was here also grabbed some white fish and roast beef which was great. A nice alternative to the other delis in the area!

I have gone here off and on for years to buy corned beef to make corned beef special sandwiches and their homestyle roasted turkey breast and sometimes fruit, and bakery items and they are all very good. Their lox is very good too.

This is a throwback to an earlier time when deli reigned and the owners cared about the food they served. My friend and I split a platter for breakfast. Lox, cream cheese, whitefish salad, bagels and coffee. Enough food for three or even four people. Total cost $ 14:99! And it was all delicious. They also have a huge appetizer section with every manner of delectable provisions.

I went here for my daughter’s birthday party. I got a hoagie tray and it came with all the salads, pickles, condiments for a good price! Everything was delicious. Will definitely come back!

If you’re not 60+ yrs old & Jewish I would never come here. You will be treated like a 2^nd class citizen. Employees are rude and lazy. Place is filthy. In 10 years when all the «regulars» are deceased this place will go under guarantee by the way they treat non-​regular customers. Btw I’ve been here maybe half dozen times in the last year and my experience has been the same — HORRIBLE! See ya never again Steins.

If you love to nosh on Jewish deli meats, Steve Stein’s delivers. The nova lox, belly lox, Romanian pastrami, and corned beef are all delicious – easily rivaling anything you’ll find in the United States (outside of New York, of course). The pastrami is pleasantly fatty and well-​seasoned; when gently heated, it melts in your mouth, a rare sign of basturma greatness. The lox is optimally salted and thin-​sliced by hand to order. (I wish I’d ordered some sable). Also, given the quality of the meats, the prices are very reasonable, especially if you’re accustomed to paying Houston Street or 80^th Street prices.
The only downside: the bagels are just okay. Maybe I came on an off-​Sunday, but the sesame, garlic, and plain bagels were all average. The crust was a bit too soft, and the texture wasn’t ideal. (A friend of mine who grew up in Boro Park, Brooklyn, in the 1950s wasn’t impressed, either.)
Still, Steve Stein’s is easily a 5-​star deli in my book. As a DC resident, it’s the best Jewish deli I’ve found to date within a three-​hour driving radius.

Visited here 3 times after the move. While it’s not the greatest deli in the world, true, it’s not bad at all. The corned beef and pastrami are especially noteworthy. Counter folks are nice, and the salads and fish — at least what I’ve tried, are very good. The stuff here seems to be a lot fresher than the other well-​known deli up on Bustleton Ave. It could be a bit — just a bit — cleaner.
Is it as good as Carnegie in NYC? (BTW, Mike, you obviously haven’t been to Katz’s in a while. It’s garbage now) Of course not. What is? That’s, frankly, a pretty foolish comparison. Carnegie is the benchmark. But if you feel like Deli, you can drive to Grant Ave instead of Manhattan. Or even Center City.

Steve Stein’s Famous Deli is the finest deli around. We get delicious trays, meats, fish, cakes, breads, and the produce is displayed in a beautiful way and is always fresh. The prices are terrific too along with the great service with a smile. My family and friends love it there and you will too. 5 star deli!

This is your quintessential Jewish deli. Everything is great from the corned beef to the garlic turkey and everything in between. You want fresh cut lox this is the place to go. Steve, Lee and their staff are the best.

This place is a Northeast Philly staple! Over the years the location has moved several times and each time it gets better and better.
I LOVE coming here for weekend brunch. It is mostly a take out deli but the most recent location has a small restaurant in the right corner. The fish platters for 2 are delicious, filling and reasonably priced for quality fish and stuff. I enjoy their soups (a cup of mushroom barely alone is SUPER filling and like a $ 1.50, you cant beat that!) The location is convenient with a nice amount of parking. Staff is nice and helpful.

In all fairness, I have never been a fan of this place.
All I can say is that the food is all right and the veggies are priced pretty well. I have never been a fan of back-​talking employees, and I see that about half the time I have been there. Maybe it is because these employees have known the customers for years. But I do not find most of the staff to be what I call friendly, from the bottom to the top.
They recently moved and this place is much better than the dump they were in before. However, with the wide selection of delis in the area, (every supermarket even has a deli), Famous is going to have to do something to keep customers. Most of their older customer base is dying off, some of their kids shop there, but the older customer’s grandkids (I do not mean little kids, I mean people in their 20s-​40s) are not flocking to the store.
I give this place five years tops if they don’t change their ways.

It’s definitely difficult to identify this place because they moved recently and I think there’s another business in the area with a similar name.
This review is for the deli that opened up a little while ago in Grant Plaza.
As far as the restaurant is concerned, I really liked this place. It’s simple and cheap and the food is good. I had a baked salmon and whitefish salad platter and it was delicious and the portion size was good. Usually when you order a plate like this at other places you get 30% more food, but you pay twice the price. And it’s not like you don’t get enough food, but you will certainly not be stuffing yourself either.
As far as the deli, it is awesome and huge! Tons of different meats which are priced fair and it looks minimally processed and made fresh there. The turkey and corned beef are especially good. They also have a lot of salads, like whitefish salad and tuna salad. They have an area where you can select fresh produce and grocery items. They also have a delicious bakery. I had a bunch of cookies — they were super fresh and tasty. There is a day old bakery items cart, I would definitely check that out for the desserts, but not for the bagels. Those bagels were as hard as rocks.
But yeah, for sure looking to coming back.

On the recommendation of a coworker I tried Steve Stein’s Famous deli while working up In the great northeast. Walking inside I find this deli is huge, reminding me more of mini supermarket. But I was there to get lunch, so after looking over their large menu I chose the Italian hoagie. It wasn’t all that, It came on a seeded roll which was fresh, the could have been a little more generous with the meat. All though it was tasty, it was more roll than anything. But this was my first time here and will try some of their other items on the menu and maybe I’ll find out what they are famous for.

I went in 15 minutes to closing. I realize maybe this isn’t ideal, but they were still open. My experience — I get in and the floors are being mopped. AROUND MY PERSON. As I walk up and down the food cases, they mop up my shoeprints. Way to make someone feel welcome.
The guy behind the deli counter who helped me was very nice and helpful. For him — I keep my rating at three stars instead of 1 or no stars.
So I go pick out bread /​rolls. I find some by the bakery section where there is a miserable teenager just leaning on the counter as another customer is trying to get her attention and failing. So sad. As my deli order is being completed I see the miserable bakery girl again, this time with her arms full of many loaves of bread. I go to take one since I’d prefer that over the rolls. She said I can’t have those, and I have to take one that has no price tag. She gets me one. The loaf that was sold to me was $ 2 more than what her arms were full with. Perhaps I got the fresher loaf, but what happened to first in, first out? I didn’t need the fresher bread, though I guess I appreciate it, though do not like paying $ 2 more unnecessarily. Meanwhile she is shouting out to other miserable co-​workers, «Can’t we just close!!» I am sure there are other people who would be grateful for her job.
Then I get rung up. Another miserable person. This girl at least wasn’t rude like the bakery girl. She just turned her back to me completely once I was done being rung up.
I would probably go back, considering the food here is very fresh. I was once the miserable teenager working that kind of job, so I get it. But I would never make someone feel that un-​welcome in a store. Smile once in a while, people! I eventually left, it’s not like I was staying the night! Unacceptable.