Mabin’s DelicatessenOne of the most anticipated openings of the year is finally around the corner.
The Pawtucket restaurant is scheduled to open on Monday, Nov. 27, with fresh bagels, lox, whitefish, corned beef sandwiches, Reubens, rye bread, challah, pastrami, black and white cookies, and pickles on every table. do.
Restaurateur Jason Sugarman is just as excited as the general public about the opening of Rhode Island’s first Jewish deli in years.
At a preview press dinner on Nov. 16, Sugarman wanted to showcase dishes from all three meals. For breakfast, he featured bagels and lox with red onions, capers, egg salad, tomatoes and cream cheese. The Corned Beef Reuben is one of the sandwiches served all day. Pan-fried salmon with kasha wanikes (bow-tie pasta and buckwheat flour) and lemon-dill sour cream will be your main dish for dinner. It creates a sweet finish such as carrot cake or black and white cookies.
The restaurant has table seating for over 100 people and counter stools for takeout. Egg salad, lox, white fish, bagels and bread are all available in cases to take home. The kitchen is oversized, and there’s a reason for that. They smoke meat and make all kinds of bagels and breads, including rye and challah.
Sugarman isn’t just excited about the concept, which he sees demand as an experienced restaurateur. Now that it’s almost a reality, he’s also excited about the team he’s assembled. From experienced chefs and bakers to young kids hired for their first jobs, they run the restaurant open seven days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Others who have been integral to Maven’s development include wife Lauren Sugarman, partner Ben Remick, Culinary Director and Partner Jaime D’Oliveira, General Manager Sarah Berman, and Executive Chef and Bakery Director Scott Taylor. There is a person.
This is definitely Sugarman’s passion project. He has loved delis since childhood, and started visiting Wolfie Cohen’s Rascal House while visiting his grandparents in Florida. He had wanted to bring it to Rhode Island for years. His childhood memories include comic books that could be purchased over the counter.
The restaurant opens at 7am daily and closes at 9pm on weekdays and 10pm on weekends. But the space at 727 East Ave. in Pawtucket is rarely empty. Sugarman said the team works day and night to smoke ingredients, boil and bake bagels, and make bread.
Maven’s is not a kosher deli. Sugarman would like to add a Reuben sandwich to the menu, but it’s a non-negotiable for him. The sandwich, made with corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut and Russian dressing on rye bread, is not kosher because it combines meat and dairy.
Sugarman said one reason modern delis fail is because they bring in outside products, such as store-bought cold cuts and bread, and don’t make their own. He only buys good fresh produce. He has pickles on that list, and his bowl includes sour tomatoes, half sour tomatoes, and pickled tomatoes.
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Mr. Sugarman looks to New York City’s Katz Delicatessen and Second Avenue Delicatessen for inspiration, but said he would not use the term “New York-style deli.”
“We’ll be better,” he said.
Details: Maven’s Delicatessen, 727 East Ave., Pawtucket, (401) 205-8560; mavensdeli.com.
