New York-Style Jewish Deli Opens on Main Street

Every Jewish family has some signature dishes, with recipes that have been passed on for generations. For the Kowitz family, a love of cooking turned them into business owners.

“We’re a cooking kind of family,” said Karrol Kowitz, one of the owners of Bubb’s Deli and Bakery. “This opportunity came up and we decided to give it a shot.”

She and her husband Ronnie, along with Ronnie’s brother Joe and his wife Nancy, opened the New York-style Jewish deli on 21A Main Street on Monday, Sept. 12.

The family-run business bakes all of its food from scratch and gets its pastrami, brisket and corned beef from New York, and then cooks the meat in Reisterstown.

In the coming weeks, the deli will expand its bakery menu and spruce up its dining room with a flat screen television showing old movies and TV shows like “I Love Lucy.”

The name of the deli came from Joe and Ronnie’s late mother, the memory of whom brought Karrol to tears.

“We got the name from one of our girls,” she said. “They used to call her ‘Bubby,’ then, as they got older, they called her ‘Bubbs.’”

Aaron Kowitz, Joe and Nancy’s son and the deli’s pastry chef, remembers his grandmother as a unique woman.

“She was an opinionated, very strong [woman],” he said. “A Holocaust survior; it’s hard to put her in a couple words.”

The owners plan to hold a grand opening for Bubb's Deli in October.

Bubb’s Deli and Bakery is open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Visit the deli on Facebook and Twitter.