Mendelsohn’s 18th Ave Kosher Pizza

Went here with the wife on Saturday night. Despite it being eight degrees Fahrenheit, the place was thirty-​five percent full and relatively quiet. It was a bit chilly in the store, but it’s a large area, so it takes time to heat up on such a cold day. The store has a very open, airy feel, probably due to the fact that it has high ceilings. We sat in the comfy booth chairs, and didn’t feel crowded at all.
We ordered a regular slice, spinach calzone, California roll, and a tempura (fried) salmon avocado roll. Bill total was twenty-​two dollars. The slice tasted okay — the sauce was sweet. Still, I know people like it, so I wouldn’t say it’s bad pizza, only it’s not my taste. The spinach calzone, however, was tasty. A nice amount of spinach, and good cheese action going on!
We waited about ten minutes for the sushi, but it was worth it! We both enjoyed the sushi a lot. The tempura roll was cooked perfectly. The tempura part wasn’t too thin, and the fish tasted fresh. The California was good too. Rice was cooked well. Sushi came with spicy mayo (a little bit more spicy than usual) and sweet soy sauce.
Overall, this is a great place for a date or a quick bite. In addition to pizza and sushi, Mendelsohn’s sells pasta, salads, fish, and even ice cream on on well below freezing days. A great place to take the family!

Great spot! .the salmon and a huge side for just ten bucks! Good quality and variety. Although not a place to bring a new date. Lots if kids. But great food and pizza. I like it!

This place is an institution. They were one of the first kosher pizzerias ever to establish themselves in NYC in the shadows of the Holocaust, and the pizza can be great. I say can be, because you’d be loathe to order plain pizza here, which is lackluster. The real beauty and jewel of the pizza display case is the fried onion pizza. It has the heimishe taam (that’s homey taste for all of my gentile friends and readers) associated with tzibbeleh (deep, rich, sweet, meaty, caramelized onions, although there’s no meat to be found here, as a strictly kosher establishment), and when melded with melted mozzarella and sauce, it’s a mechaye (that’s delight, goyim) for the palate and stomach.
I’m also a huge fan of the wide array of cafeteria-​style dairy dishes on display. Mendelsohn’s isn’t your run of the mill pizza shop, but is really a huge cafeteria-​style eatery, with lots of seating, privacy, and a wide array of items to choose from. I’m a big fan of the creamed spinach, a brick of creamy spinach served with melted mozzarella on top, as well as the penne in vodka sauce and fettuccine alfredo with mushrooms. The cheese blintzes are also a huge favorite of mine, and I’ve found them to be consistently excellent here, although I wish they offered a bissel smetana on the side (that’s a little sour cream). The soft serve chocolate ice cream is surprisingly creamy and rich-​tasting, and the broccoli and cashew salad is oddly delicious, in spite of its sweet mayonnaise-​based dressing.

Truly overrated pizza. Why go here for pretty mediocre, over priced lunch room style pizza, when you can take a walk down 18^th ave a few blocks to davincis or j&v? Being so close to two of the most legendary slices in New York, it’s hard to understand why mendelsohns does well. The delivery zone is tiny, and the service is pretty bad too!

Just moved into the neighbor hood. wanted to try
There pizza put in my whole order and was placed on hold for a while. To only find out they deliver 20 $ and above the guy was not being accommodating even though I told him I will tip the guy a few dollars the order was like 18 dollars in totall. Bad first impression

Delicious food. reasonably priced. Spacious. Nice sized portions. fabulous pasta dishes.

The pizza here tastes strange and unauthentic, but oddly in a very good way. If you can’t make the trip about 25 blocks up 18^th avenue toward Bensonhurst for the Italian-​made, non-​Kosher alternative, by all means try their slices. You may be pleasantly surprised.

The pizza is good, but whenever I try to order over the phone, there’s this guy who sounds like he’s had a bad day and he’s taking it out on you. Extremely rude and unprofessional, I might eat here more often if they change their staff.

Always a pleasure coming here for Pizza, pasta and extensive Israeli dishes.
You can also bring the cut-​up pie of 12 thin slices in Kosher markets, as well.
With Mendelsohn’s, the name and the game are always there.

Good slice. Passed by and went in on a whim, complete gamble but paid off. Kosher pizza can be off at times, but not here~

My kids really like the pizza but I really feel like its a bit on the sweet side. What I really like here is the pasta dishes. Also they know how to move the line along quick. Great place to have a fast filling meal.

I found myself in the nabe again today at lunch and popped in. I then realized this not a pizza joint but more like a midtown Manhattan lunch buffet type of place.
There’s a salad bar where they make your greens to order. A sushi bar (small). An ice cream counter. Then there’s a 100 ft. of glass displays divided into 3 main sections: pizza, hot dishes and sides (pastas, mashed veggies, etc). I had a nice, big piece of salmon, a heaping side of pasta and a drink for $ 10. They aren’t cranking out the best of anything, but they are cranking out huge portions of pretty good food.
Especially when you consider there is little good food in this area. Really. You can go a pretty good distance in any direction and only find a few places doing a few things right. This place, on the other hand, is huge and ambitious.
That said, I’m not sure if I’d bring a dinner date here as it’s kinda «serve yourself.» Likewise, it caters to a Kosher/​Hasidic crowd so I’m still not entirely sure what is served and not. In particular, I’ve yet to meet a meat (bit maybe they are hidden). For veg-​heads, this should be a happy place.

This is one of my all time favorite pizzerias. It is in the neighborhood and I have been going here for years.
The workers are not too friendly, and their humor is not very funny, but their pizza is delicious. Ok, maybe they are not friendly because they are kosher and religious, and I bring in my shiksa girlfriend who was wearing a short skirt in.
«Are you eating the pizza here??»
«No, we are going to take it to my house»
*death-​stare*
Anyway, their regular slices are really good. I think they put sugar in their tomato sauce because it is slightly sweet, which i LOVE. Their pizza is just a step above regular pizzerias.
They got a lot of vegetable slices, and their mushroom and onion is is really good. I recommend getting that, or the regular onion one. The onions are caramelized to perfection, and are huge.
They have great baked ziti and lasagna as well, get a size small and for 4.50 it will fill you up.
Fish is just ok, salmon is not bad but nothing special. They don’t have meat tor pepperoni since it is kosher.