The Bagel Restaurant & Deli
Hold the schmaltz! You can surely find items that could tempt the proudest vegetarian at The Bagel Restaurant & Deli in Skokie and Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. (On Saturday nights only, look for short beef ribs, simmered overnight.) But owner Danny Wolf gives a non-traditional nod to those who pass on meat, offering a vegetarian option for tzimmes, a stewed vegetable side dish typically found on dinner tables during Jewish holidays like Rosh Hashanah or Sukkot. Traditional tzimmes recipes call for schmaltz, which is duck or chicken fat. The Bagel’s vegetarian option replaces schmaltz with vegetable oil. “It’s just as tasty,” Wolf says. It includes ingredients common in usual tzimmes recipes like carrots cut round to resemble gold coins, a symbol of a new year; sweet potatoes, prunes, cinnamon, brown sugar and a squeeze or two of lemon juice.
The Bagel Restaurant & Deli
3107 North Broadway
(773)477-0300
50 Old Orchard Center, Skokie
(847)677-0100
BagelRestaurant.com
Best of Chicago 2011
