Dingfelder's Delicatessen
Jewish restaurant · Capitol Hill ·
Pastrami sandwiches, matzo ball soup, knishes, and bagels
Pastrami sandwiches, matzo ball soup, knishes, and bagels
"At any hint of sun, Cal Anderson is bound to be mobbed with dogs, ultimate frisbee enthusiasts, and people who sunbathe in 60-degree weather. Build yourself a sandwich force field with a pastrami on rye from Dingfelder’s. Just be sure to order it “Seattle-style,” which means you’ll get half as much meat (and pay a little less). There’s still plenty of cured beef goodness to go around, and it won’t make a complete mess on the astroturf." - aimee rizzo, kayla sager riley
"Dingfelder’s sells massive pastrami sandwiches from an open window on Capitol Hill. They also have matzo ball soup, egg salad, tasty half-sour pickles, and other things that you maybe had for lunch the last time you were in New York. It might not be located on the East Coast, but if you’re in the mood for a kosher sandwich so tall that you need a strategy to eat it, this is the place." - aimee rizzo
"You can pretty much consider Dingfelder’s another one-stop-shop for all eight nights. This takeout window on Capitol Hill has a “Chanukah Box” for $90 that feeds two to four people and includes a choice of meat, latkes, soup, gelt, and a dreidel. And if you’re looking for an alternative to Dingfelder’s already-delicious traditional latkes, you’ll find gluten-free, beet/turnip, and zucchini latkes in addition to potato. They’re also serving 12-hour-braised brisket, a whole roasted lemon garlic herb chicken, a platter of smoked salmon, sufganiyot, and pumpkin cheesecake." - aimee rizzo
"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
"Not far from Ben and Esther’s, Dingfelder’s opened in 2018 and explicitly cited “the sheer lack of foods of our heritage” as a reason for opening; I appreciate its extensive sandwich menu plus knishes, latkes, and the other deli staples you’d want, though it, like the other delis mentioned, is not certified kosher." - Harry Cheadle