Texas Highways Magazine

Lots o’ Matzo

rom towering house-cured corned beef sandwiches to filling bowls of chicken soup, every morsel of food served at Kenny and Ziggy’s NewYork Delicatessen Restaurant is infused with a nearly 100-year history. The origins of the Houston restaurant date to 1927, when Max Gruber and his brothers-in-law opened The Rialto Deli, the first Jewish deli on Broadway in New York City (It shuttered in 1956). Since then, Gruber’s descendants have opened independent

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