Brooklyn’s Deli & Grill

No longer live in the area but stop in whenever I’m back and have enjoyed this place ever since its Celebrity Deli days in Rockville. Matzoh ball soup is good and definitely homemade and not over-​salted. I prefer the corned beef to the pastrami but they’re both killer. The pickles are delicious. And the rye is so wonderfully crusty on the outside and so stick-​to-​the-​roof-​of-​your-​mouth soft on the inside… don’t understand all of the haters. Ok, maybe it’s not as good as some legendary NYC delis, but please tell me where you can find better corned beef in the DC area. And I live in San Francisco and I assure you there is no deli there that even comes close to this place.

I’ve been here many times over the past year. This is a good spot with a great value. The prices are reasonable and the food is fresh. The service is good, too. I go during the week and it’s usually crowded but there isn’t much of a wait. If the weather is nice, sit outside and enjoy the outdoor seating.

Everything is good, and a few things are great. The owner makes two special cuts of meat each day, a pastrami and a turkey, and hand cuts them. If you get in before the lunch rush, try to get a sandwich made from the hand cut meats. The fries are tasty, and the pickles are well pickled. It’s a little expensive, but well above average.

The waitress took the plate away from my son before he was done and did not care!

Previously frozen rye bread that fell apart and tongue served hot is not a brooklyn natives view of a «real» Brooklyn Deli.

Barely acceptable. Used to love it in its old location. Been many many times only because I can practically walk there, AND, there isn’t really any local competition. Too bad. Because the staff is never knowledgeable or nice and the food is hit or miss.

I keep trying to find a good NY style deli around the Gaithersburg/​Rockville area and continue to strike out. There’s a couple of things that you measure a good deli by and to me that’s their Corned Beef, Pastrami and Kinish. In each case it was mediocre.
I had the pastrami on pumpernickel and it was extremely greasy, overly salty, fatty and with gristle to boot! The flavor wasn’t right either. The pumpernickel bread was the most flavorless pumpernickel I’ve ever tasted and fell apart way to easily. The kinish we shared was tough, dry and flavorless. I think it was made the day before and reheated in a microwave. The corned beef was no better — this was very disappointing and for roughly $ 14 a sandwich hardly worth it (not to mention that the stack of meat on the sandwhich was not worthy of the cost either). Their homemade (I assume) pickles are horrible, very salty with no pickling flavor. They seem to like a lot of salt here.
Service was lackluster and seemed unconcerned with my unhappy demeanor. When asked how it was I responded so-​so, she said okay and walked off. A manager later asked if I wanted to box the ²⁄₃ remainder of my sandwhich to which I responded «No thank you.» He walked off without another word.
Unfortunately I’ve lived and worked in NY and eaten at Katz’s Delicatessen, I’m probably never going to find something that comes close to that. If you’ve never been to NY and eaten at Katz’s Deli I highly recommend it!

I’ve patronized the deli since they were on Rt 28. Early on the food was great, particularly the corned beef and pastrami.
The food eventually settled to good (vs great) but the ambiance improved to average.
I must now report that now the food (including the corned beef and pastrami) can no longer be graded good. On Saturday I had a corned beef sandwich I didn’t wish to finish. The meat could have come out of a plastic bag. Other previous meals have been inconsistent.
I hate to see their slide to mediocrity, but two stars is their current status in my mind.

Favorite place for Jewish Sunday brunch with the family. Best corned beef sandwiches in the area. Matzoh ball soup is really good too. Atmosphere isn’t the best but. Great way to start a Sunday morning. Coffee bagel and smear!

Picked up carry out.
The white fish was moist and perfect, service was excellent. This place is a winner

Still love it here! Today I enjoyed their breakfast sandwich (did not disappoint) and they offered the baby girl I babysit a free rainbow cookie. Consider this my new weekly ritual!

Have gone to Brooklyn’s Deli several times the past two weeks for breakfast and lunch. Each time every table was filled, including the tables in the area where desserts are displayed and carry-​out orders are placed. There were folks waiting for tables to come available in the always bustling cheerful atmosphere. The staff moved about with brisk confidence. I was seated each time close to where the food comes out of the kitchen and everything looked fabulous. I had a big breakfast one time and lunch another. Love the tuna salad and their egg salad sandwiches, always accompanied by the awesome crispy fries! We always stop at the dessert displays for their gourmet cookies to «carry-​out»! Love this place!

Can’t go wrong with the Pastrami or Corned Beef. Kids always go for the Beef Tongue (go figure). And everyone loves the Matzoh Ball Soup. Always tastes great and is especially great in the cold weather.
Carry out is always fast and the wait staff is very friendly. Go early for the outdoor seating once the weather warms up.

Had late breakfast on a Wednesday. While the service was fine and my friends seemed to enjoy their sandwiches, my food was awful.
I ordered the Nova and cream cheese on a bagel. I was first served a bagel with a tiny prepackaged portion of cream cheese. When I pointed out that I had ordered the Nova platter, a server took the bagel back to the kitchen, where they smeared an even tinier, transparent layer of cream cheese on one side of the bagel, topped it with salmon that looked as if it had been cut with a chain saw, and plopped the bagel top on. This was served on a tiny plate no bigger than the bagel. I had to wave someone down to ask for onion slices. For this, I was charged $ 13.99.
DON’T order a bagel platter and you might enjoy Brooklyn’s Deli.

Disappointed to get a fairly large chicken bone in my bowl of matzoh ball soup.
More, disappointing is the manager’s respose: «Well at least you know that it was fresh». What does a bone and gristle have to do with being fresh?
When I complained about how dangerous a 1 inch bone in soup can be, they grudgingly took off 50% for the soup.

Good food. Good service. Pleasant atmosphere. High prices for small portions. Paid $ 12.99 for a «manly» sized lean corned beef, but it was just average size, not stacked high like you’d expect from a Brooklyn themed Jewish deli.
Cans of soda were $ 2, kind of a rip off.

The Blume Sandwich $ 14 (⁴⁄₅ NOMs)
What the pile? Needed to satisfy some messy noming in Rockville. That is one very well packed pile of sandwich goodness. First bite in and things just start falling off and your whole face is covered in greasy messy things! Sometimes you just want to get messy to enjoying something great. Its a flavor explosion with soft and savory meaty combination. Its all about the meat here with hot pastrami and kosher hotdog. Topped with melted swiss cheese and super tasty cole Slaw. They sure love cole slaw at this deli. Not a cheap sandwich, but there is a lot going on in there and you are paying for it. So much going on in that mess, but you can still taste everything and enjoy each great topping. Make sure to ask for extra napkins, you will need them. Its probably a good idea to only eat half, eating whole thing will insure to place you into food coma.
Goldberg $ 12 (⁵⁄₅ NOMs)
Its meat overflow in my mouth. Get ready for some Brooklyn style sandwiches right here in Rockville. They truly master our favorite kind of sandwich, the messy pile of crazy slobbering. Bite into it and you can just taste giant pieces of roast beef meat with mozzarella cheese all over. Like most sandwiches here, they put lots of yummy coleslaw on top. We rarely like coleslaw, but here they got it just right. So hard not to finish the whole thing, but beware they are very heavy and might just put you in food coma heaven. One of our to go places for sandwiches.

Very disappointed. I ordered a hot turkey sandwich and got a few slices of microwaved turkey on old rye. Lots of huffing and puffing when I asked for condiments and a pickle. I’m not sure what happened since everyone else was getting the type of deli-​quality sandwiches you’d expect. The chicken salad is on par with other places, but nothing special. Parking is ample since the place is in a strip mall.
May try again if I’m in the neighborhood, but would not take a group here.

I’ve eaten here several times and always had consistent delicious food.
Matzo ball soup is super good and a large portion. Just love the bowls they serve in. Grilled cheese goes nice with the soup, I like mine with tomato.
Today we had the Kosher hotdog which was so yummy with a nice bite to it and juicy and the fried bologna makes it taste even better.
Also had the Rueben which was piled high with tender, lean corned beef and grilled to perfection.
Service is fast and friendly and the atmosphere is very energetic.
Love the Dr. Browns products and free pickles with dine in.
Did not love that the fries, although enormous in serving size, came out cold. They sure looked good though, but I’d like them hot please.
I will keep going back especially when I have a sick family member that needs some good olé matzo ball soup, just like my dad used to make. Will request hot fresh fries next time.

Holy cows! If you haven’t seen my picture from here — check that bad boy out. Though, it’s a modified sandwich; we just took one of the meats and replaced it with chopped liver. If you’re cat hair-​balling right now. I’m sorry, I’m jewish and I love chopped liver!
My totes fave is chopped liver on matzoh with a little cold horseradish. If you’re adventurous, try it out. It’s delicious. The meal was very good at Brooklyn Deli. I love the pickles there. The sandwich was so big I couldn’t fit it in my mouth and the whitefish salad was a hearty portion and very tasty. I can tell you that this is the only whitefish salad platter in the area that comes with all the fixins’ I love.
Tomato
Cucumber
Olives
Capers
SWISS CHEESE (thats the big difference)
Lemon
and Whitefish Salad
And now you will learn how to make– what I like to call: Mike’s Perfect Bagel
Start out with bagel, spread the cream cheese, and sprinkle a few capers in the cream cheese. You have to sprinkle the capers at this step or they will roll all over the place like a dropped bag of skittles. So once you’ve embedded the capers in the cream cheese then top with whitefish salad. On top of the whitefish salad, put one slice of tomato. The whitefish salad will hold the tomato on. Then cross two triangles of swiss cheese on top and you’ve got —
MIKE’S PERFECT BAGEL!
Brooklyn Deli is serving up large sandwiches with great quality meat daily. They have an expansive menu, you’ll definitely be able to find what you want. So it sounds like this place is perfect right. Why the one star knock off.
I’m not a huge fan of the actual bagel. Where ever they source them from is not my favorite. I wish they would use Goldberg’s Bagels. Man o man, if they did, I’d be there daily.