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| - NU bills itself as a modern take on Jewish cuisine, or something to that effect. "Modern" innovations seem to include a Reuben Knishwich, and enormous knish containing Reuben filling, and a couple other things like that. I didn't get the knishwich, but I do like a good knish, and the people we went with swore this was a worthy innovation.
I got the Rachel with a "Montreal-style" smoked meat. It's not a huge sandwich in the style of say, the Carnegie Deli, but while not overwhelming (in a good way), the meat was delicious and then sandwich was still ample. I also got an order of kishka; I'd been struggling to explain it earlier in the week to my partner, and found it to be a good example of the form. I'm used to it in derma, like at Katz's Deli and Corned Beef Emporium in Toronto, but I don't suppose there's a significant difference in the taste. The gravy was also good, though I would have liked more of it; I got fries (also good), specifically to mop the gravy up with, and there wasn't nearly enough. Perhaps I should have ordered the poutine if that's how I feel, but still.
For dessert the couple we were with split the matzah brittle ice cream sunday. The matzah's coated with chocolate, nuts, and some sea salt. I had a bite, and it was pretty good, but given that passover had just ended, I wanted something a little more *leavened*, so my partner and I split the "babka sundae". Usually she has a couple bites of dessert, and then I finish it off, but this marks a rare dessert where it was so good we actually ordered a second portion. You get a thick slice of warmed-up, gooey chocolate and cinnamon-y babka, with a scoop of french vanilla on top, caramel drizzle, and sea salt. It's not especially ground breaking, but it is darned good.
They had good mustard on the table, the service was exceptional, and we enjoyed our BYOB wine. We also each had a quarter of a new dill pickle which was good. Again, I guess I'm of the school of deli-excess: I want a sandwich I can barely pick up, loads of gravy on my kishka, and ideally, and a full pickle, along with perhaps a selection of different pickles (I feel like we're in a bit of a pickle revolution; tons of places make their own pickles and pickled vegetables, so that would have been a cool plus). But these are minor peccadilloes; it may not match a traditional deli in Toronto or NYC, but I'd happily come back here if we were going to stick around Pittsburgh.
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