Where Are Seattle’s Few Jewish Delis? | Eater Seattle

"Since 2018 on Capitol Hill, Dingfelder’s — owned by Vance Dingfelder, a New Yorker who opened the shop to fill a long-standing gap in Seattle — offers the full gamut of Jewish deli classics that were scarce when he arrived: bagels, knishes, kugel, matzo ball soup, whitefish-style smoked salmon, pastrami sliced to order (the deli cooks the meat itself but doesn’t make pastrami from scratch), and nostalgic items like gribenes. The deli taps into a latent demand (Dingfelder says there are a lot of Jews who have lived here and ‘we’ve never had a place like this’), offers a la carte Passover takeaway menus with brisket as a centerpiece, and handles heavy seasonal volume — “upwards of 200 orders over a few days” at Passover — while regularly drawing customers who come from other East Coast cities or bring visiting parents to show that Seattle now has delis; patrons often express gratitude and emotional responses when reminded of meals with grandparents." - Harry Cheadle