Catskills Heimishe Bakery

66 Pleasant St., Monticello, NY - (845) 796-4796

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Posted By Michael Stern on September 26, 2003 7:38 PM

Add Catskills Heimishe Bakery to the very short list of excellent bakeries attached to gas stations (the other one being Weikel's of La Grange, Texas). In the retail space adjoining a Citgo Ultra Power Food Mart, you will find a selection of exemplary kosher pastries and breads, plus such specialties as lukshen kugel (noodle pudding) on Thursdays. This part of the Catskills has a large population of Jewish people, but it's been our experience, at least passing through, that good Jewish food isn't easy to find. In that sense, this Heimishe bakery (which vaguely translates as Nice-Guy Bakery) fills a need.

At least it filled our needs as we drove along Route 17. We tore into big hunks of dense honey cake chock-a-block with nuts and raisins and a bowl of the stickiest, messiest, most delicious thing known as taglach. Taglach is small beads of lightweight pastry dough encased in honey and all piled together with honeyed hazelnuts and pecans. Utensils are useless because the pastry beads are too crisp to yield to fork tines and too stuck together to be separated by a spoon; so the only way to eat it is with fingers.

Isaac, the Orthodox young man who seemed to be running the place, told us we hadn't seen anything yet. Open only since July, 2003, the Heimishe Bakery will soon be serving breakfast (pastries, mostly) as well as soups and hot dishes for lunch. He made us promise to come back, which we will do with pleasure. But he reminded us not to make the visit on Friday after sundown or any time Saturday, when the Heimishe Bakery is closed for Sabbath.

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Posted By Walter Lipman on July 25, 2011 8:05 AM

The Catskills Heimische Bakery now serves a wonderful lunch and salad bar. Recently, my dad and I had the privilege of lunch at the bakery.

I had one of their onion rolls with their wonderful salmon salad. These onion rolls will forever redefine what an onion roll should be: huge, a challah base, and filled almost to overflowing with Vidalia onions just at the beginnings of caramelization. Their sweetness marries with the salmon salad in a symphony of flavor. What an unexpected and welcome treat!

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