What are they, chopped liver?
So I was wrong. So sue me. Last month, I wrote about the Diamond Dairy Luncheonette and said I don’t often review kosher restaurants because they’re usually too expensive for this column. Days later, I got a letter from Mark Schachner, owner of Brooklyn’s Mill Basin Kosher Deli. Polite but distraught – “It was like a knife through my heart”- he said that, ounce for ounce, his burgers, hot dogs and fries cost less than those at McDonald’s and Nathan’s, among other places, and are fresher and of better quality. This is my apology to Mr. Schachner. You’re right. I’m wrong. And I can’t wait to go back to your deli. It’s shiny-clean, with pink walls and a pleasant back garden. The staff is like family: A waitress glared when I tried to stop my husband from ordering both chopped liver and potato latkes. Not only do you get free bowls of coleslaw, macaroni salad and sour pickles, but the menu is studded with deals, like two hot dogs and a knish for $5.90 and a three-course early-bird dinner f
