JJ’s Delicattesen

We used to love this place. We were regular Sunday morning visitors. The place is named after their two sons. The oldest son was super nice and recognized us and we talked about school life etc. He went off to school and then the son steps up and acts like its a bother for you to be there. Last time and the straw on the camels back was he never said one word to us while ordering. He never made eye contact and rolled his eyes several times. When it came to paying, he just pointed at the total. Have him a credit card and then he walked away. We had guests with us and they were somebody should report him. I said he’s the owners son, they don’t care. So we haven’t been back since.

They have very yummy lox platter. Comes with all the fixings. I usually order extra bagel because there’s enough to make 2 bagel lox.

Grear service and terrific food. Been coming here for a couple of years with our hiking group. Always served promptly and they can handle a group nicely beyond a couple or two. Heartedly recommend for wonderful deli whether you are by yourself or a group of 15. If a group call abead and they will set up a reserved table.

Love this place. All the breakfast is good, especially the lox platter and the eggs w hash. Great iced tea too. True deli, good deli food.

Really a quality deli with an extensive menu. Slightly overpriced but service was good and quick and really friendly. Food was delicious good coffee great spot.

Bagel expert from NY reporting that these bagels are smaller, but still a good eat. They fall somewhere below my favorite Valley place, but are worthy if your in the area. I grabbed eight at a buck apiece and they have all the trendy flavors, including cornmeal and cheddar, etc. The place is tiny, but the price of a sandwich is large. At least $ 10.50 for nearly every sandwich. They don’t use Boars Head, nor do they make their own meat and the photos of the sandwiches look small, so they must be charging North Scottsdale prices. I mean, at least Chompie’s is worth the price for what you get right? Just preference, but I would also prefer a person more representative of the cuisine or the area to take my order.

Just ordered a patty melt with a side of German potato salad. The flavors were amazing, and the serving size was more than enough! It also came with a pickle wedge. We ordered by phone and the food was ready when we arrived. They have a beautiful glass display filled with desserts. I asked if I could add on a rugelach, and they did so without hesitation. Such sweet customer service with a friendly smile. I will definitely be going back here again! Bonus is that it’s only a couple miles from my office. Thank you!

The menu is huge so there is definitely something for everyone for breakfast or lunch… About 7 tables inside and plenty of outside seating… Enjoyed both breakfast and lunch here… Can’t miss this gem

I’ve eaten at JJ’s FIVE TIMES in the last 3 weeks and would go back today if I could. They’re that friendly, the menu is that diverse, and everything I’ve had is that good.
The first time we went, we had no idea how do «do» JJ’s. I guess it showed, because (I believe) the owner took us aside right away, gave us one of the printed menus by the door, told us to order at the inside register once we’ve decided, they give us a number to put on our table and they bring our food out to our table. Mostly outdoor seating and lots of dogs on the patio.
The food is out of this world. Best bagels in the area, but my favorite are the salads that are far from the usual ceasar and club (though I think they have those, too). Especially the Harvest salad with jicama, apples, dates, raisins and a bunch of other tasty good stuff that’s good for you.
Best casual breakfast or lunch in this part of town by far.

The bagel are out of this world! Tastes like something you would get in New York. Would highly recommend. Great places to bring your gods.

Best breakfast place in Scottsdale. Large menu and excellent counter service. I’ve even eaten here twice in one day. It’s local residents favorite.

Just really good sandwiches that leave you feeling guilty you ate the whole sandwich!
I mostly get the Reuben because it is my weakness. It is juicy and tasty meat on nice bread.

I absolutely love this place! 30 different types of bagels? Breakfast all day? Sign me up! All I can say about this place is that it’s amazing AND dog friendly! I’ve been here 3 times in the last month and I’ll definitely be back again!

Hands down best place for lunch! Love the food here! It’s a little over priced but worth it! Highly recommend this place!

Great breakfast bagel sandwich. Menu is vast and they have knish! Staff is extremely friendly and quick. Seattle’s best coffee as well as assorted bottles and cans of soda and juice. They have fountain soda as well.

This place was recommended by friends. We enjoyed excellent service large portions, and in-​house baked bagels. The patio seating was plentiful and relaxing.

Nice addition that’s been around longer then I realized. My guess is breakfast is best here. It was a good lunch. I didn’t order well so hate to knock them for bad choices on my part. Rye bread was excellent! To me just too thick of a slice of bread for sandwich. Look forward to trying their breakfast

Finally found a good deli in AZ. Been here twice so far and both times the food and service have been top notch. Friendly, fast and delicious.
I’ve had the Reuben and French Dip sandwiches and would wholeheartedly recommend both. The german potato salad is my favorite side so far.
Plenty of indoor/​outdoor seating. Do yourself a favor and stop by for lunch.

Only the best LEO in Arizona. Consistently good. Service with a smile. Never a worry. Just great food. If you grew up in NY or south Florida, you had real deli’s on every corner. Each were great.
This is the only place with consistently great food and service.

JJs is a true deli, and the food is of excellent quality. The friendly service is even better!
Roger and staff always do a terrific job :)

The choices for good breakfast in north Scottsdale are limited and JJ’s was always one of the better places. The portions were large and tasty. My last few trips have been less than expected. We went for lunch. My friend ordered chicken salad sandwich. They brought her the cranberry turkey… They asked if she knew what she had ordered and replaced the dish. The chicken salad when it arrived had pieces of broken toothpick in it. She swallowed one and we pulled out 6 more.
I ordered the roast beef on multi grain. There was about 4oz of well done roast beef on stale bread. The sandwich is served w 1000 island dressing on it– except for the discoloration on a small spot of ½ of the sandwich, I wouldn’t know it was there
Bottom line– I expect more from a Jewish deli. Roast beef served med rare and lots of it for $ 11. Fresh baked bread — at least fresh bread. And enough service that we could have turned down a to go box and turned in the toothpicks.
This used to be a wonderful place. Not sure where it fell off the tracks. But I won’t likely return.

I used to come here when it was known as Kashman’s! Some of the same guys still work there and they are as friendly as ever. Nothing has changed much except some of the wall décor and the name. The food is always great, the staff is warm and happy to be there, and even the customers are happy and welcoming! Always a great place to catch breakfast with friends.

We love this place! Great menu and everyone is always so helpful and nice. Great customer service and we’ve always like what we ordered.

I have to reiterate what others have said; the breakfast here is incredible. Customer service top notch, fantastic servings of fresh, well prepared meals, lovely choice of sweet side plates, a friendly atmosphere which caters to dog owners and bikers, I could go on and on listing the virtues of this place. Excellent experience.

Dang, this was one of the best breakfasts I have had in a while! My parents live right near this place, don’t know why I hadn’t tried it sooner, I have been missing out.
They have such a wide variety which is awesome. Also impressed that they have more than one vegetarian option. The environment was welcoming, its a nice little place, almost everyone was sitting outside. JJ’s is a good place to eat in spring or fall for that reason! Not much indoor seating.
I ordered a build your own skillet. Thought it was pretty generous that you could pick up to 5 meats/​cheeses/​vegetables to add to the skillet for no extra charge. For most places you only get to pick 2 or 3! For my skillet I got tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers, spinach, and feta with the eggs scrambled. It was so incredible. Always disappointing when a breakfast place has sub par potatoes, but these were perfectly seasoned and crispy. Also came with toast or a bagel and cream cheese. I went for a salt bagel (a childhood favorite. They make all of their own bagels there and they are very good. They are not super big though. Very good quality though, soft and tasty. My friend also got a skillet with an egg bagel and he enjoyed it.
JJ’s was a good find, I seriously cannot wait to come back!

If you are looking for a Jewish Deli experience, this is NOT the place. I ordered corned beef on rye and here are some comments:
1) The rye bread was cut too thick, but was not too bad for flavor. I prefer caraway seeds, but even NYC delis don’t all have that in their bread.
2) The meat was clearly cut from some lump of corned beef goo like from Boar’s Head which is not from brisket and lacks the texture and flavor. It was cold, and I suppose my bad, as they give you a choice, but no self respecting deli serves cold corned beef.
3) They put on the mustard which, to me, is a big no-​no. I don’t remember if he offered mayo but I would not have been surprised.
4) The potato salad was of the right consistency but lacked flavor. Lots of goo and color, no flavor.
All in all they need to trim back the 5000 items on their menu and do a few well. Maybe cook their own meat?
Service was good. But overall not a place I would return. I can go to the store and make a sandwich better than this for half the cost.

Few things can fix a crappy day like a good sandwich. I went to JJ’s for the first time and ordered Rogers TBLT. It came out quickly, was absolutely gorgeous, and the taste did not disappoint. My 4 year old is currently chowing down on a plain cream cheese bagel. My only regret is that I won’t be able to eat here again for a long time since we’re flying back home to the frozen North soon.

The best Roast Beef sandwich I’ve ever had. Just stumbled upon the place looking for a bite to eat.
Need to try again.

I came here to try the delicatessen food and that is what my rating is on. On a positive note this place is in a nice location with a pleasant dog friendly patio. The inside is nice and bright. You don’t have table service as you order at the counter, seat yourself, and they run the food to you.
I soon received my lox platter. The cucumbers, onions and tomatoes were nice and fresh cut. I took half the bagel and spread the cream cheese on it and noticed that the cream cheese was very thin and seemed like it was whipped and then thinned down. I tasted it and it lacked the tang that cream cheese needs. NOBODY ANYWHERE thins down cream cheese and it was terrible. The bagel was fresh but very odd to me because of it’s texture. It lacked the chewiness and yeast-​ty-​ness that a bagel normally has. But the MOST DISAPPOINTING thing about this platter was the lox. I wasn’t sure at first if it was the lack of quality or the lack of freshness about the taste. It actually was fishy tasting with lots of salt. After maybe three bites I think it was both issues and didn’t eat the rest. This was the worst lox and cream cheese I ever tried anywhere.
We also tried a potato knish. The first thing I noticed was the knish was very untraditional in appearance and was wrapped in puff pastry instead of the normal knish dough. The filling had the texture of instant potatoes and lacked the onion flavor and taste the filling normally has. The puff pastry was gooey in areas see photo.
We also had DRY but fatty pastrami on fluffy mild thick rye bread. The pastrami would have been good if it was prepared properly as it seemed mishandled like someone just fried it instead of braising it for maybe two more hours with some onions to make it tender and juicy. The fluffy that lacked sour rye bread just was a sponge for the oily fatty dry pastrami.
Lastly it was obvious that the potato salad was home made because the flavoring was a combination of unbalanced spices and too much mustard. Only someone without taste buds would be able to choke the stuff down.
I was WRONG not to complain about the lox but my head was just spinning about everything.
Old tasting lox
weird texture bagel
WATERED Down cream cheese
not good gooey knish
almost hard dry pastrami
inedible potato salad
Nobody asked us how things were and I didn’t feel like walking back in with my dogs and telling them.
I would be understanding if a relative or neighbor prepared food like this but I expect at least passable quality at a restaurant. I do feel terrible about giving a small business only one star but the truth is wild horses can’t drag me back to eat here again.
Oy Vay!
Usually deli food is very filling but here you can leave hungry.

Came here for lunch on the basis of the positive reviews. The food was great (we had a monte cristo, a tuna sandwich, eggs and a hot dog) good sized portions and excellent flavor. My beef with this place was the service. I really felt as though I was an inconvenience. I stood at the cash register to order — for what seemed like hours. I did the whole step in closer, clear my throat and shuffle papers around routine to try to get noticed. I was eventually helped but the service was poor. He was mumbling and I couldn’t understand him and was getting annoyed when I asked for things to be repeated. He couldn’t even bother to hand me my cups — just sat them on the cash register base. He sat down 3 cups and I had ordered 4 drinks. Went back to inquire about my 4^th drink and he just pointed to the drink case. I guessed my 4^th drink was in there.
There was a bright spot — an older gentleman who greeted us, brought us a high chair and bused the tables. He was über friendly, helpful and the only redeeming human interaction we had while here. Give this man a raise!