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| - While in Madison I wanted to find an authentic Jewish Deli. I searched yelp for the "Jewish Deli" and found this place. The name sure sounded to me like the proprietor was going for Jewish, so...Stalzy's it was.
The layout of the place was really cool. It had a few booths and a little lunch counter. It could only go down from here in my book, and it did.
If Yelp allowed reviewers to title their reviews, I would title this one, "What the Fu£k is a Bialy?"
Seriously, what's a Bialy?
I'm sitting in the booth across from my buddy and he asks me what I'm going to have. I tell him, without even picking up a menu that I have my heart set on lox and bagels. Then he says something so despicable I can hardly being myself to repeat it. I mean I'm going to repeat it for you guys but I just want you to know how annoying it is for me to do. He says, is a "Bialy" the same thing as a bagel? I told him it was probably some hipster way of saying bagel. I had already made up in my mind that I wasn't going to play this game. I've lived this long without saying venti or grande, I wasn't calling a bagel a Bialy.
I told the cashier I wanted a bagel and lox. He said, "You mean a Bialy." I said, "you don't have bagels?!?" He said, "Nope, only bialies." Then he pointed his stubby little sandwich maker to this dusty bread abortion. A bialy was a half bagel/half English muffin. This was no Jewish Deli.
I opted for eggs, sausage and bacon with a side of latkes. The thought the food was great but It could have been attributed to the fact that it took the cook just under and hour to prepare my very basic order.
I would have liked to have tried some of their other dishes but I didn't get a chance. This deli is less Jewish than Einstein's Bagels but it's worth trying.
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