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Shelsky's of Brooklyn Appetizing and Delicatesse

(718) 855-8817
  • 141 Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
  • $$$$$
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  • Menu
  • Smoked Fish Sandwiches
    • Member of the Tribe Sandwich $13.5

      Gaspe Nova, scallion or plain cream cheese, served on a bagel or your choice of bread.

    • The Fancy Pants Sandwich $18.25

      Fatty lake sturgeon, house-cured gravlax, Ben's cream cheese, tomato and red onion served on a bagel.

    • Peter Shelsky Sandwich $16

      Gaspe Nova, sable, pickled herring with cream sauce and onion, scallion cream cheese, served on bagel or bialy.

    • Brooklyn Native Sandwich $15.5

      Gaspe Nova, smoked whitefish salad, pickled herring, sour pickle, served on bagel or bialy.

    • Brooklyn Transplant Sandwich $15.5

      Fatty kippered salmon, apple horseradish, cream cheese, pickled herring salad, served on choice of bread.

    • Shelsky's Pastrami Sandwich $15.5

      Pastrami salmon, mustard herring, Riesling-braised sauerkraut, served on choice of bread.

    • The Great Gatsby Sandwich $14.5

      Pastrami cured salmon, honey mustard, horseradish cream cheese and red onion, suggested serving on caraway seeded rye.

    • El Vincente Sandwich $18

      Lake sturgeon, plain cream cheese, fresh jalapenos and heirloom tomato. Served on a bagel.

    • The Spicy Sandwich $14.5

      Choose 1 of our 3 colorful spicy seafood salads, with roasted hazelnuts, fennel, oranges, cucumber salad and Sriracha chili sauce. Served on choice of bread.

    • The Holy Mackerel Sandwich $12

      Smoked peppered mackerel, Ben's vegetable cream cheese and cucumber salad served on choice of bread.

    • The Whitefish Club Sandwich $14.5

      Door County whitefish fillet, tomato, onion, jalapeno, cilantro and cream cheese on a bagel.

    • The Tribute Sandwich $15.5

      Door County smoked whitefish salad, horseradish cream cheese, wasabi tobiko, served on a bagel or bialy.

    • The Fishless Sandwich $10.5

      Tomato, pickled tomato, cilantro, jalapeno, red onion, apple horseradish sauce and mayonnaise served on a bagel or bialy.

    • Lewis' Maine Style Lobster Roll Sandwich $17

      Chilled Maine lobster salad with tarragon served on an Orwasher's potato hot dog bun, toasted and buttered.

    • Spicy Shrimp Roll Sandwich $12.5

      Spicy shrimp salad with Kewpie mayo, masago, togarashi and sesame oil served on choice of bread.

    • The Newhouse Sandwich $15

      Hand-sliced wild Alaskan sable, scallion cream cheese and tomato on choice of bread.

    • The Turboff Sandwich $16

      Baked salmon salad with hand-sliced Nova, horseradish cream cheese, tomatoes, red onions, capers and lemon juice on a choice of bread.

    • The Clementine Sandwich $15.5

      House-cured gravlax with butter, red onion, tomato, capers and lemon juice on a your choice of bread.

    • Osetra's Momma Sandwich $18

      Fancy California lake sturgeon, butter and red onion on your choice of bagel.

    • The Tuna Super Spicy Funk Sandwich $14.5

      Shelsky's seriously great tuna salad served on a bed of sliced jalapenos and topped with Malaysian chili sambal (contains fermented shrimp paste) and crispy "Chinatown" fried onions on your choice of Orwasher's rye or pumpernickel.

  • Classic Delicatessen Sandwiches
    • Shelsky's Hot Pastrami Sandwich $21

      Shelsky's of Brooklyn delicatessen hot pastrami, sliced thin, with deli mustard on rye.

    • Shelsky's Hot Corned Beef Sandwich $22

      Shelsky's of Brooklyn delicatessen hot corned beef with deli mustard on rye.

    • Shelsky's Reuben Sandwich $23

      Shelsky's of Brooklyn delicatessen hot corned beef, Riesling-braised sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and Russian dressing pressed on plain rye.

    • Roast Beef Sandwich $15

      Homemade roast beef, butter, Dijon mustard and crispy fried onions on choice of rye bread

  • Sandwich with a Schmear and Butter
    Cream cheeses and butter.
    • Butter on Bread $3

      Sometimes a buttered bagel or bialy just hits the spot.

    • Plain Cream Cheese on Bread $5

      On a bagel or bialy. Sometimes, you just want a bagel with cream cheese... and nobody does it better than us!

    • Scallion Cream Cheese on Bread $5.5

      Look, Ma! I'm eating my greens... OK, can we really call scallions in cream cheese on a bagel or bialy, "eating my greens?" Well, at Shelsky's we can!

    • Lox Cream Cheese on Bread $7.5

      Nova smoked salmon is finely ground and gently folded into our house-cream cheese! Enjoy the flavor of a classic "bagel with lox and cream cheese" with a price tag meant for every day breakfasting!

    • Horseradish Cream Cheese on Bread $7.5

      Missing that Passover flavor but aren't about to dig out an old box of matzo? How about having some horseradish cream cheese on a bagel... sure, it's leavened, but it's not Passover... you're not even Jewish for all I know so, go nuts!!

    • Vegetable Cream Cheese on Bread $7

      Cream cheese whipped with bell peppers and garlic on a bagel or bialy.

    • Tofu Cream Cheese Sandwich $6

      Ben's cheese planet tofu cream cheese sandwich.

    • Spicy Chili Crisp Cream Cheese on Bread $7.5

      Double-whipped cream cheese with spicy chili crisp (ground dried chilies, soy nuts, fried onions, Sichuan peppercorns, and msg).

  • Salad Spread Sandwiches
    • Egg Salad with Cornichons Sandwich $9.5

      Egg salad on a bagel or bialy, rye, pumpernickel or an onion roll? Whichever vehicle you choose, it's gonna be a homerun.

    • Chicken Salad with Pecans, Grapes and Celery Sandwich $10.5

      We take extra care to gently poach our chicken for this salad, making each cube of chicken moist and juicy! It's great on a bagel, bialy, onion roll, rye or pumpernickel!

    • Pickled Herring Salad Sandwich $10.5

      Our pickled herring salad served on a bagel, bialy, rye, pump, or an onion roll. We think it's even better with some butter and red onion on there as well!

    • Seriously Great Tuna Salad Sandwich $11.5

      We're not joking. Our tuna salad is seriously great. Have a tuna sandwich... When was the last time you just had a tuna sandwich? Go for it. It's a classic done right.

    • Baked Salmon Salad Sandwich $12.5

      Our baked salmon salad is rich!! If you are absolutely famished, then having it on a bagel or bialy will totally satisfy you.

    • Chopped Liver Sandwich $12.5

      Iron deficiency can be a real bummer. Avoid anemia. Eat chopped liver on a bagel, bialy, rye, pump, or on an onion roll!

    • Smoked Whitefish Salad with Cucumber and Celery Sandwich $12.5

      Our smoky whitefish salad works beautifully with the gentle sweetness of our chewy bagels! It is also perfect on a bialy!

    • Smoked Bluefish Salad with Hazelnuts, Oranges and Fennel Sandwich $12.5

      Our unique smoked bluefish salad on a bagel or bialy.

  • Cold Smoked and Cured Fish
    • 1/4 lb. Eastern Gaspe Nova $12

      Rich and assertively flavored, stands up to a bagel... The standard.

    • 1/4 lb. Mild Scottish Salmon $12.5

      Mild, slightly firm, yet silky. Nuanced smoke.

    • 1/4 lb. New Brunswick Salmon $11

      Silky and rich, soft with moderate smoke.

    • 1/4 lb. Gravlax $13.5

      Cured in-house with aquavit, lemon juice, salt, sugar, black pepper and fresh dill.

    • 1/4 lb. Salty Belly Lox $12.5

      The OG, real lox. Salt-cured. Not smoked. Aggressively salty!

    • 1/4 lb. Wild Coho $14.5

      The most buttery and mild smoked salmon we sell... velvety and spectacular.

    • 1/4 lb. David Burke Pastrami Salmon $13.5

      Imagine if smoked salmon and pastrami had a love-child with a lovely lingering peppery bite!

    • 1/4 lb. Wild Alaskan Sable $16

      Smoked black cod. Brined with garlic and paprika, sable is rich, fatty and delicious!

  • Hot Smoked and Kippered Fish
    • 1/4 lb. Fatty Kippered Salmon $13

      Hot smoked or kippered salmon is rich and flaky.

    • Whole Door County Whitefish $60

      Price per fish. These jumbo smoked whitefish are wild-caught from Lake Michigan. They are flaky and moist... yes, we used that word!

    • 1/4 lb. Peppered Hot Smoked Salmon $8

      Rich Scottish salmon, coated with cracked pepper and smoked over fruit woods give this flaky salmon a camp-fire-y smokiness.

    • 1/4 lb. Fancy Lake Sturgeon $20

      Earthy and rich, smoked sturgeon is among the meatiest fish available! It's great with butter on a bialy!

    • 1/4 lb. Wild King Salmon Bacon $15

      We are the only purveyors of this amazing product in NYC. The fatty bellies of king are brined and then hot smoked. Great for snacking or hors d'oeuvres. Truly special.

    • 1/4 lb. Wild King Salmon Teriyaki Jerky $13.5

      These bits of air-dried wild salmon jerky are pleasantly sweet and the perfect road-trip food!

    • 1/4 lb. Homemade Roast Beef $15

      We roast our Delliapietras' Fine Meats to a beautiful rosy pink after brining them for 4 days! Sliced thinly, this roast beef makes a killer sandwich.

    • 1/4 lb. Classic Delicatessen Pastrami $16

      Brined then rubbed with a special blend of classic pastrami spices, our pastrami is made from fatty beef navel and it is slowly smoked and then steamed to tender rich awesomeness.

    • 1/4 lb. Classic Delicatessen Corned Beef $15

      Our briskets are corned with a special blend of spices. A bit leaner than pastrami, the flavor is clean with that nostalgic Jewish deli somethin' somethin'.

  • Herring
    • Pickled Herring with Wine Sauce and Onions $4.25

      Price per filet. The Jewish appetizing shop classic done right... jumbo herring filets, pickled with spices and a bit of sugar.

    • Pickled Herring with Cream Sauce and Onions $4.25

      Price per filet. The Jewish appetizing shop classic done right... jumbo herring filets, pickled with spices and a bit of sugar swimming in our cream sauce with pickled onions.

    • Roll Mop with Pickled Onions $4.25

      Price per roll mop. Our pickled herring pounded thin and wrapped around pickled onions.

    • Mustard Dill Herring $4.5

      Price per filet. Our classic pickled herring marinated in a homemade whole grain Dijon mustard and fresh dill sauce.

    • French Smoked Herring $5

      Price per filet. Velvety smooth, these herring are slowly smoked over wood in Paris and are preserved in oil. Great served with boiled potatoes and Dijon Mustard.

    • Matjes Herring $6

      Price per filet. Large baby herring fillets are salted and pickled with warming spices and beetroot powder giving them a salty, sweet red hue. Great with some cream cheese and pumpernickel bread.

  • Soup, Salads and Spreads
    • Matzo Ball Soup $14.25

      Quart. 2 servings. Cold soup, frozen matzo ball.

    • 1/2 lb. Cucumber Salad $6.75

      Traditional appetizing cucumber salad.

    • 1/2 lb. Citrus Roasted Beet Salad $6

      Add color and citrusy earthy beets to your table!

    • 1/2 lb. Egg Salad with Cornichons $7.5

      Little gherkin pickles.

    • 1/2 lb. Baked Salmon Salad $16.5

      Made from our rich and kippered salmon, this spread is great on a bagel, bialy, rye bread, or just with some crackers!

    • 1/2 lb. Chicken Salad $10.5

      We gently poach whole chickens from Quebec, dice the breasts, pull the thighs and legs and make a salad with grapes, celery, pecans and a bit of mayo.

    • 1/2 lb. Seriously Great Tuna Salad $11

      We're not kidding. It's seriously great.

    • 1/2 lb. Chopped Liver $9.25

      Homemade, of course, we walk the line between smooth and chunky on the smoother side of things, but it's got some texture. It's got that rich unctuousness that makes it irresistible.

    • 1/2 lb. Spicy Shrimp Salad $13

      This shrimp salad is a bit spicy and absolutely addictive. For real!

    • 1/2 lb. Lobster Salad with Tarragon $22

      Canadian lobster, hand picked, poached and tossed with our tarragon dressing. It's a great cold salad.

    • 1/2 lb. Whitefish Salad $16.5

      Our smoked whitefish salad is made with wild-caught whitefish from the Great Lakes. This is not a mayonnaise salad with some fish byproduct. This is a premium whitefish salad dressed with a little mayonnaise. It tastes like smoke and cold-water fresh fish!

    • 1/2 lb. Macaroni Salad $4.5

      We make our macaroni salad in-house and it's gooood!

    • 1/2 lb. Potato Salad $4.5

      It's as perfect as potato salad can get!

    • 1/2 lb. Coleslaw $4.5

      Pink from the red cabbage, creamy from the mayo, with a nice vinegary bite, we dig it and so will you.

    • 1/2 lb. Health Salad $4.5

      It's like coleslaw's healthier cousin... vinegar slaw. Oregano. Great foil to fatty pastrami!

    • Quart Half Sour Pickles $7

    • Quart Sour Pickles $7

    • Quart of Pickled Tomato $7

  • Cream Cheeses
    • 1/2 lb. Plain Cream Cheese $5.5

      Double-whipped plain cream cheese.

    • 1/2 lb. Scallion Cream Cheese $6

      Double-whipped cream cheese with fresh scallions.

    • 1/2 lb. Lox Cream Cheese $9.25

      Double-whipped cream cheese with ground Nova smoked salmon.

    • 1/2 lb. Horseradish Cream Cheese $8.5

      Double-whipped cream cheese with freshly-grated horseradish root.

    • 1/2 lb. Vegetable Cream Cheese $8.5

      Double-whipped cream cheese with bell peppers, scallions and garlic.

    • 1/2 lb. Sichuan Chili Crisp Cream Cheese $7

      Double-whipped cream cheese with spicy chili crisp (ground dried chilies, soy nuts, fried onions, Sichuan peppercorns, and MSG).

    • 1/2 lb. Tofu Cream Cheese $8

      Ben's Cheese Planet tofu cream cheese.

  • Bagels
    Price by the bagel, bialy. All of our bagels are made with our sourdough starter. They are dense, chewy, and all sorts of awesome.
    • Plain Bagel $1.6

    • Sesame Bagel $1.6

    • Poppy Bagel $1.6

    • Onion Bagel $1.6

    • Garlic Bagel $1.6

    • Everything Bagel $1.6

    • Salt Bagel $1.6

    • Cracked Pepper and Salt Bagel $1.6

    • Sichuan Peppercorn Bagel $2

      Numbing.

    • Whole Wheat Bagel $1.6

    • Whole Wheat Everything Bagel $1.6

    • Pumpernickel Bagel $1.6

    • Egg Bagel $1.5

    • Cinnamon Raisin Bagel $1.6

    • Pretzel Bagel $2

  • Roe
    • French Trout Roe $25.99

      4 oz. jar. Smaller orbs than salmon roe, this trout roe is smooth and earthy.

  • Cold Beverages
    • 16 oz. Cold Brew Iced Coffee $4.5

      We cold-brew Ashlawn Farm's Nicaragua dark roast.

    • 16.9 oz. Poland Spring Water $1.5

    • Dr. Browns Soda Can $1.75

    • Canada Dry Club Soda $1.5

      Sodium Free

    • Diet Coke Can $1.5

      12 oz Can

    • Mexican Coke-Cola $2.75

      12 oz Glass Coke Bottle

    • Seagrams Seltzer Water $1.5

      12 oz can

  • Hot Beverages
    • Drip Coffee $4.5

      Ashlawn Farm Deterra Villa Borghese coffee... rich and bold.

    • Darjeeling Tea $2.5

      Palais des Thes Margaret's Hope Darjeeling is a classic morning black tea.

    • Earl Grey Tea $2.5

      Palais des Thes Blue of London has floral notes and citrusy bergamot.

    • Green Tea with Mint $2.5

      Palais des Thes green tea with mint is mild and soul-affirming.

    • Genmaicha Green Tea $2.5

      Palais des Thes green tea is a mild Japanese green tea with toasted rice.

    • Roobios du Hammam $2.5

      Palais des Thes rooibos red tea has no caffeine and has notes of sweet tobacco and vanilla.

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