A corner table of a family celebrating multiple birthdays. Great grandparents, grandparents, parents and children of all ages. The love of deli passing on down through the generations.
Mamaleh's Delicatessen opened in Kendall Square, Cambridge in 2016 to lines out the door serving homemade bagels, lox, pastrami, corned beef, blintzes, black and white cookies, babka, egg creams, and dozens of other dishes that would make any nostalgic (Jewish) person swoon. During this opening time, we received much acclaim, including Bon Appetit Magazine's 50 best new restaurants in the country and Boston Magazine's Best Deli. Then Time Out Market. Then Covid. In August 2021 we opened our next location in lovely Washington Square in Brookline. This smaller but just as charming location, like Cambridge, offer our ‘order-at-the-counter-we’ll-bring-you-food-on-plates’ service model. Still Covid. Then High Street Place. Then…?
