The "Reuben Lángos Burger" Night at Aron's Deli

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Menu - Thursday 4th February 2016  

• "Reuben Lángos Burger" with goose fat fried potatoes, apple slaw & house ketchup
• Somlói Galuska

Price £15 / person
Please contact us to make a reservation.
phone 0117 973 7165.  email info@aronsdeli.co.uk

For parties of 6 or more we require a deposit of £5 / person.

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One of the things we always wanted to do at Aron's was to take the best bits from Hungary's rich culinary heritage and add them to the best bits of NYC's fast food culture using quality local ingredients to produce something new and possibly better than the individual sum of the parts.

Whilst searching the web for inspiration, we came across a dish in New York that ticked all these boxes and a few more besides. A dish so awesome, so jam packed full of red meat, salt, carbs and saturated fat that we just had to bring it to Bristol immediately.

And so we are proud to present "The Reuben Lángos Burger", our homage to two great street foods, with a perceptible nod in the direction of the New York Deli!

Lángos is a flatbread made from a dough of flour, mashed potatoes and yeast, left to rise above a deep fat fryer before finally being stretched to the size of a small pizza, deep fried and served with a variety of lascivious toppings.

Part savoury donut, part waffle, part pizza: my preference is for lángos topped with lashings of sour cream and grated cheese like in the picture (above).

Commonly consumed at street markets, lidos and during the summer months beside Lake Balaton, lángos is one of the foods that the Hungarian diaspora hanker after most.

Picture courtesy the Korzo Haus 

At a place called the Korzo Haus in Brooklyn some insane Slovaks decided to wrap a medium rare grilled burger patty in lángos dough and then deep fry the whole thing to create what Village Voice described as "the best burger in NYC".

To be perfectly honest even if Oscar Wilde hadn't said that "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" we'd have had no hesitation in plagiarising this beauty. So on the evening of Thursday 4th February we'll be holding a "Reuben Lángos Burger" party.

The "RLB" is a med/rare griddled hamburger patty made from 100% prime beef sourced from Bakers of Nailsea, topped with slices of Aron's smoked pastrami, Wyfe of Bath cheese, home made Russian dressing and house fermented sauerkraut, then finally wrapped in lángos dough and deep fried.

Potatoes fried in goose fat with a side of apple slaw and home made tomato ketchup complete the main course picture.

For dessert we'll be serving Somlói Galuska which can best be described as Hungarian trifle - but oh what a trifle!

Three kinds of sponge cake are soaked in rum along with sultanas, raisins, sour cherries and walnuts then covered with both vanilla AND chocolate sauce and served with whipped cream. A mere trifle it is not!

You are cordially invited to join us on the 4th for what promises to be a calorific carnival of debauched deli nosh!

Aron's Jewish Delicatessen, 19 Chandos Road, Bristol BS6 6PG.

More info re Korzo Haus here..

Hanukkah holiday food at Aron's Deli

All this week we're celebrating Hanukkah.

Food fried in oil is traditionally eaten at Hanukkah, most notably latkes which are a permanent fixture on our brunch menu.

Ours latkes are currently a mixture of grated potato, swede and onion, mixed with some matzo meal and whole eggs and seasoned with plenty of black pepper. They're served one of four ways: plain, with apple sauce, with horseradish and dill flavoured sour cream or with sour cream and smoked salmon and capelin caviar.

Hake fried in bread crumbs with tartar sauce and served with parsley potatoes will also be served all this week.

The new Chicken Schnitzel Sandwich is proving popular with both new customers and regulars and being fried in oil it's also good for the Hanukkah holiday. We fry corn fed chicken breast in a matzo crust and serve it in a challah sub roll with an apple slaw in a lemon, garlic & horseradish mayo. It's also available with an optional chopped liver schmear!

Finally we'll also be serving a Chicken Deli Plate special next week. The plate is comprised of four elements:
- Hot smoked chicken salad with grapes & walnuts in a light vinaigrette dressing.
- Zsidó Tojás / Hungarian Jewish egg salad
- Chopped liver
- Gribenes (chicken crackling)

Happy Hanukkah from everyone at Aron's Deli.