Born and bred New Yorker Peter Shelsky grew up on Kossar’s bialys and Zabar’s hand-sliced Nova, eventually working in the kitchens of Eleven Madison Park, Café Sabarsky, and Wallse. Tuned into both professional chef culture and the flavors of his own Eastern European and Jewish roots, he partnered with Lewis Spada, a Brooklynite and 20-year FOH veteran of Fish Tales, Cobble Hill’s local seafood market, to open Shelsky’s of Brooklyn. Together, the duo brings their talent and charisma to the non-traditional Appetizing and Delicatessen shop that aims to revive “an old tradition that never really died.”
The Yom Kippur order deadline has passed.
We will have plenty of your favorite traditional Break Fast goodies available in the store on a first come, first served basis on Friday, Oct. 11th and Saturday Oct. 12th
Lewis Spada
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Executive Chef & Proprietor
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A Jewish Bakery Adopts the Pork Roll, Egg and Cheese
Pete Wells extols a breakfast treat on a bialy at Shelsky’s Brooklyn Bagels. It is a safe guess that the Eastern European Jews who brought the bialy from Bialystok to New York City, piecing back together the recipe for this plain but beguiling dimpled roll in their new world after fleeing their old one, did not do it so that one day it could be sliced open and stuffed with a New Jersey pork sausage that comes in a cloth sack…
This Bagel is the Only Thing That Got Me Through Marathon-Training
Better than a hot shower, better than an icy-cold Gatorade, better than any other carbohydrate in all of New York…
This Is How You Make a Perfect New York Bagel
Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has accomplished many great things. The pyramids. The moon landing. The discovery of the Higgs boson. The very existence of Beyoncé. And yet for all that we’ve learned, there remains the cruel reality that no one outside of a 50-mile radius of Manhattan can make a good bagel.…
Shelsky’s Park Slope Bagel Shop Bucks Its Jewish Deli Tradition
Shelsky’s new bagel and sandwich shop isn’t your typical Jewish deli. There’s a Sichuan pepper bialy on the menu, for starters, and chopped cheese makes an appearance. But something else on the menu signals an even bigger departure: pork, and Taylor Ham at that…