Tov Caterers

When it was open and it hasn’t been open since before Passover 2015, I liked it a lot. Barbecued chicken and for Thanksgiving barbecued turkey! and for Passover some very unique, delicious but expensive gelfilte fish. What happened to it? Does anyone know?
Steven G.

B-​Grade Inspection, Frozen food of undetermined age to your right, a handful of defrosted or prepared that week refrigerator case items to your left. dim lighting, few items have prices, workers don’t seem to want to be there.
This decades old take out home cooked food dispenser is now a ghost of it’s former glory. My guess is the only reason they are still open is because the family owns the building, and there are too many other stores nearby left vacant. I’m nostalgic for their askenazi recipes, but it seems the area is now full of eastern european and middle eastern kosher customers who eat at freshly prepared high turnover mediterranean style places, so there are few left to support Tov and eat their airplane food.
I would avoid eating anything fresh here accept on Thursdays or Fridays when they presumably cater for their Sabbath contracts. If they ripped out all the freezers and put café tables there, redecorated and only sold fresh made the same day food, I think they’d attract new business, but the owners seem to all have better things to do than revitalize this seemingly obsolete food establishment. The Orthodox can simply go to Kew Garden Hills for similar fare, while everyone else seems happy with Ben’s Best Deli nearby. I walk past Tov’s Monthly, so if they ever close down or renovate — watch my review for a timely update.

«[Encore Community Services] hired a city-​approved subcontractor, Tov Kosher Caterer of Queens, to provide meals to its kosher clients.. .. ‘We aim for restaurant quality, and when the kosher meals arrived, I near died. I was so angry,’ said Sister Lillian McNamara, Encore’s co-​founder and director of its senior center. ‘I told our seniors, «I don’t want this garbage to be fed to you.“‘» — «Budget Cuts Spoil Kosher Meals for Elderly,» Jewish Daily Forward, 5÷15÷2009