Sadly has permanently closed. Will missed the friendly service and authentic German delicacies. It's a Teutonic experience that's hard to replicate.

This place is fantastic , the staff are lovely welcoming people. The food was amazing. They were a dog friendly place, they even gave my dog some turkey! The food is also very affordable and is very traditional. I don't really write reviews but this place deserves one. If you're walking by it's a great place to come for a quick bite!!

Tradition, It's great. I'm looking at these pics and they bring back many memories, I worked in the Forest Hills store from '80-'82. I used to pick up fresh food at the Kew Gardens Store, everything looks the same. It was the best Gourmet Shop in the area, the food was always great, we got a free meal per shift. I'll get back there one day for a Tuna Salad on Polish Rye with LTMSP. All the best to the new owner, that aren't that new anymore. If you've never been, give them a try.

Great food, old time delicatessen service and products. Like stepping into New York of old.

This is the last of the best German delis left in New York. I have been coming here for years and it's just terrific high-quality food never got stuck here terrific selection, a bit higher on the prices, but to be expected in this day and age. I am giving it one star less because you cannot find any prices you have to depend on the counter help to ring it up! other than that check it out you won't be sorry if you want real quality food and selection!

Sorry no pictures but my uncle is here visiting from GA and we stopped here he absolutely loved this place

I jumped the gun and asked the Community if anyone had ordered bread and received only 9 slices. I should have called Homestead first and I apologize to them. When I did call them they explained that ordering on Seamless is by the pound and I had not noticed that. Will never assume that bread is by the loaf again. The only solution to my dilemma is to overstuff the sandwiches a la New York old-style.

For 2018 thanksgiving we ordered their full Turkey meal: 25lb turkey, peas and carrots, gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, stuffing - the works! All for $100. Now mind you my husband is a chef by trade. EVERYTHING WAS AMAZING!!!! We ate it all! It was ready on time if not early. A call and a text were sent to let us know. We added potatoe salad and dessert! EVERYTHING WAS SOOOOO GOOD! It's homemade and taste as if made w love! We will be back for holidays!! Thank you!

After sitting for lunch while reading through eighty percent of the reviews, I tend to believe that .. pause.. Outside of the quality of food -- in comparison to the food price continuum that few seem to have any concept of, the opinions fall short on content. BTW: Ya get what you pay for folks, you want cheap? Move to Compton or Camden Other reviewers hung on to one item or two at most and said very little about their purchased items nor any of the Homestead experience. Happily boasting their prideful beauty within the adorable Easter window dressing (prior to this review date) - the pies, cakes and chocolates would have FAO Schwartz doing a double take. Classic Eastern European. Two huge display cases bare little atop for a clear and direct angle of communication with the staffers. The clean and pressed staffers in their brightest white uniforms, executing the lunch orders from the peeps and chirps from the customers who have been enjoying this fine Polish and German food mecca -- handled the busy lunch croud happily as coukd be. "Just whistle while you work." "Just humm a merry tune." Getting a third of the way into the store, the display cases contents would not cease in their aromatic and visual assault upon my senses as I slowly creeped in a half bent peeking pose. Pate, herring, knockwursts were almost pouring out from their trays and platters and when the fresh cold cutt section was reached, - it was an epiphany of sorts of other deli's I've come through - the fresh homemade hits just on coming. The sliced meats all looked as perfect as if they were ready to be filmed in a T.V. commercial. Decision making time took on a while new definition -- and the world is 'Difficult'. I quickly thought to order a few smaller portions of their options. Four salads later and I was ready too eat. Shrimp Salad: amazingly plump with the most minimal of mayo dressing, thin and tiny cuts of celery. Delicious. Tuna Salad: one quick glimpse and it was clear the quality was next level quality- and it was and it was. Far and away the best I've ever had anywhere. Nothing but full bore tuna & homemade mayonnaise coming atcha top speed. German Potato Salad: Just like grandma Johanna made it. Fresh bacon bits, little oil, little vinegar. Scrumptious. Herring Salad: A personal favorite of mine and not to beat a dead horse with my "the best" editorials, but it really was. Beautiful hunks of the beloved fish. So much more to say.

For the second time in a few years I found myself on the street and, having grown up not far from here, I knew to seek out the homestead deli. The most delicious fresh rare roast beef, on fresh rye bread lettuce and some homemade Russian dressing. Are you kidding me? Five stars does not do this justice; not even the memory of it. Now the young lady making the sandwiches, and I was here at 3:30 when they weren't any other customers mind you, is so slow making them you would think she works in cahoots with the parking people giving out tickets in the area. But I would never let that take away from the deliciousness. Anything German deli you can't go wrong with this place.