Ben’s Best Receives Zagat High Rating For Quality

Ben’s Best, a Rego Park landmark with 65 years of experience as a consummate neighborhood deli and caterer, has just received Zagat’s “23” (very good to excellent) rating for food quality.

The lofty rating coincided with the publication of Save the Deli, a new book by David Sax, released in hardcover on October 19, which laments the loss of one of New York City’s oldest and most venerable institutions.

“We’re campaigning to help save the deli,” a spokesman for Ben’s Best said. “We’re trying to ride the wave! The neighborhood is changing but the strong are surviving and Ben’s Best is one of the hardiest among them. You can find Mexican, Thai and Italian but you can’t find a good kosher deli like ours. They are a dying breed with only about 21 notable ones left in the city’s five boroughs.”

The solid reputation of Ben’s Best is based on a great deal more than top-notch pastrami, according to the spokesman, who adds that Martha Stewart has deemed that dish the best anywhere, along with the restaurant’s latkes and hot dogs. Other traditional specialties include 100 percent kosher award winning beef, free-range chopped chicken liver like your Bubbie made, side dishes like homemade coleslaw and mouth-watering kugel for desert. What’s more, prices here are 30 percent less than in Manhattan delis.

With Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah and the New Year right around the corner, Ben’s Best is offering a fullcourse kosher dinner for ten at just $259.95 (plus tax). All the traditional holiday foods are available, from appetizers like tasty stuffed cabbage, soups such as tangy mushroom barley, entrees including juicy whole roasted chickens, turkey or brisket of beef with vegetable and potato side dishes and a choice of delicious desserts.

Ben’s Best is open seven days, from 9 a.m. to 9:45 p.m. It accepts all major credit cards. To get there by subway, take the V, R or G train to the 63rd Drive Rego Park Station.

The catering operation covers the whole country, servicing everything from corporate events to fundraisers for politicians and charitable organizations to anniversary celebrations, weddings and bar/bat mitzvahs for famous celebrities.

Either way, high-quality traditional foods we all love are guaranteed!