Shelsky's of Brooklyn Appetizing and Delicatesse Menu with Prices

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.

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

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).

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.

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!

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'.

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.

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

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.

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

French Trout Roe

$25.99

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

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

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.