Kasha Varnishkas

Kasha varnishkas are an incredibly flavorful mixture of steamed buckwheat and bowtie pasta, caramelized onions and mushrooms, fresh garlic, salt and pepper. An absolutely delicious Jewish specialty, and you won’t find any that taste better than Kenny & Ziggy’s.

From a third-generation New York Deli owner, Kenny & Ziggy’s is not only the top deli in Texas but also one of the best delis in America. In the early 1900s, Max Gruber (Ziggy’s grandfather) left Budapest, Hungary, on a bicycle. He pedaled his way across Europe to the Atlantic coast and eventually sailed for the United States, ending up on New York’s Lower East Side. In 1927, he and his brothers-in-law Morris and Izzy Rappaport opened the first Jewish deli on Broadway! Generations later, Houston businessman Lenny Friedman convinced Ziggy Gruber, who ran successful Jewish delis in New York and Los Angeles, that Houston needed an authentic deli of its own. The rest is delicious history.