Chick & Ruth's Delly - Annapolis, MD

Posted By Michael Stern on June 12, 2001 4:46 PM

Chick & Ruth’s is a wild, fun place to eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, or a late-nite snack. In the heart of old Annapolis, it is a Jewish style (but not strictly kosher) deli that is colorful, full of life, and so cramped that if you sit in one of the booths opposite the counter, you will be within inches of the person next to you. This is not the place to come for a quiet, private, or intimate conversation.

The menu at Chick & Ruth’s has something for everyone, from creamed chipped beef on toast to spiced steamed shrimp by the pound. At breakfast, you can have a bagel with lox, pancakes with a ham steak, or a seasoned crab omelet with a heap of lusciously oily Delly fried potatoes. At lunch, there are sandwiches, hot plates, foot-long dogs, and fantastic hamburgers ranging from two-ouncers to one pounders. The homemade soup repertoire is grand, including matzoh ball, chicken noodle, French onion, Maryland crab (spicy!) and cream of crab.

Annapolis is is the Maryland state capital, so many of the house specialties are named after politicians. A chopped liver and corned beef sandwich is known as the Governor Mandel; lox on a bagel is Golda Meir; turkey breast on whole wheat is Bill Clinton.

Upstairs above the deli is the Scotlaur Inn, which is, as far as we know, the world’s only “Bed & Bagel,” a hostelry with ten rooms for rent.

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Corned Beef

Corned Beef Hash

chicken soup

omelet

chopped liver

Crab Omelet

Fried Potatoes

crab soup

Coffee

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Posted By Bif Pocaroba on July 13, 2011 2:19 PM

I stopped in early for breakfast and had an egg sandwich with some coffee. Pretty basic, and it was good. I ordered an Italian sub to go and the roll seemed a bit stale, and it fell apart when I took a bite, with stuff falling out all over the place. I understand the concept of an over-stuffed sandwich but this one just didn't work. I wasn't impressed at all. I loved the old school decor.

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Posted By Gleston Simmons on April 24, 2011 8:00 PM

Mr. Ted Levitt has a "salute the flag" gathering each morning but, unfortunately, one of those 50 stars he belittles with pejorative jokes. As I sat eating an average diner breakfast recently, Mr. Levitt was littering his banter across the table across from me where a visiting family of Danish tourists sat. Without outlining the entire conversation, he had the nerve to make an overt "joke" equating West Virginians with incest. West Virginia was not even remotely a part of the conversation up until that point. What kind of patriotism is that? Unbeknownst to Mr. Levitt, West Virginians were seated at his next table paying for his cheap, ignorant, and pejorative jokes.

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