Deli K is a new, friendly, family run Kosher food market with many food menu items to take home. Busy families will appreciate their extensive menu so you can buy a month’s worth of meals and never repeat one. West Island of Montreal.

The interesting homemade food is cooked daily in the West Island store. A Mosgiach is on the premises to make sure all is well. Even the bread, pastries and cookies are baked fresh daily. Some basic groceries line the shelves too: tam tam crackers, soup mixes, cookies, whole wheat noodles, candy, gum. etc. You might be surprised to find out that they even carry gluten-free products.

They can also handle larger groups, like business lunches for companies or catering small events.

Here is a sampling of some of their yummies:

Appetizers: hot dogs in blankets, borekas, Asian meatballs, latkes, arancini with chicken

Salads: spicy tuna, salad cuite, mango, crab, beet, spicy eggplant, quinoa, Romanian

Soups: lentil, bean & barley, matzah ball

Poultry: schnitzel in mushroom sauce, turkey with sweet onion, chicken with apricots and prunes, hen in duck sauce, Moroccan chicken with olives

Meats: beef medallions in onion sauce, stuffed eggplant in tomato sauce, stuffed veal cutlets in caper sauce,Ruth’s brisket, cholent

Fish: Moroccan fish, tilapia in lemon sauce, paella, fish balls in tomato sauce

Sides: verenikas, corn pie, scallop potatoes, Moroccan omelette, pastels, green bean casserole

Chinese: Orange beef, chicken chow mein, General Tao, beef and cashews, Kung Pao chicken

Pastries: croissants, danish, strudel, borekas

How’s this for great customer service: If you make a suggestion of something you would like them to cook, they will create it for you.

Location: 11 Sunnydale St. Dollard des Ormeaux QC H9B 1E1
corner: boul des Sources
Tel: 514-685-6340
Hours: Mon-Wed 8:30-7, Thurs 8:30-8. Fri (Oct-March) 8:30-2 (April-Sept) 8:30-5

Around for 86 years, Cantor’s Bakery started out with an Eastern European flavor with rye and pumpernickel breads and egg challah too. Their standards have evolved over the years to include danish, croissants, pies, muffins, cakes and bagels. However this new location in the West Island goes a little bit around the world.

I’m from NYC so I miss knishes – they are basically mashed potatoes tucked into dough – either square thick crispy ones or round softer varieties. They sometimes would be stuffed with kasha, buckwheat groats. This new incarnation of Cantor’s is knish heaven. Yes there is potato, but also potato with spinach, broccoli, mushrooms or bacon. There’s Samsa, a Russian variety with ground beef and onions (my favorite), a chicken one, pizza one, a Jamaican patty and – Hats off to Montreal – a smoked meat one.

Lunch is covered with 6 hearty sandwiches, chopped liver, cheese bagels, salads and a good variety of cold drinks. Dinner can be made in a few minutes with fresh or frozen foods-to-go: veggie lasagna, rigatoni, tortellini,  schnitzel, meat balls, potato or vegetable latkes (pancakes). You can start with soup, from matzoh ball to lentil, cream of vegetables or bean and barley. In the freezer, you can buy ready-to-bake  cheese bagels, party knishes, hot dogs and hors d’oeuvres.

And then there’s the desserts, all the Cantor’s regulars are there including the fudgey danish, cheese or cinnamon danish,  and my favorite chocolate dipped butter cookies, 4 kinds of mandel broit (biscotti to you) but on the right side, this being Montreal, there is a full counter of French cakes and pastries: Paris Brest, fruitiers, cream puffs, milles feuilles, mousse, and even cannolis. You can wash them all down with some good coffee-to-go.

Not only is catering available but they even have some meeting/party rooms on the premises, from small to large.

Tomorrow (Sat Mar 24) from 10-2, CJAD will be airing live from there and you can meet Ric Peterson in person.

New Location: 1000 boul. St-Jean, Pointe Claire
corner: Labrosse
Tel: 514-674-4747
Hours: Daily 6:30-8, Sat 7-7, Sun 7-6
www.boulangeriecantor.ca
Other location by same franchisee: Gare Centrale