Rochester Deli, Inc.

08/31/2026

Our Team will trade their aprons for a little relaxation! 🥰😍🥰

08/29/2026

Grilled, breaded, sliced, simmered or stacked on a fresh salad or sandwich — we know our chicken! ❤️
Come hungry, we’ll take it from here.

08/24/2026

Our creamy seafood corn chowder is simmering in Chef Dan's most seasoned stockpot, the one that's seen years of scratch-made goodness.
Pair with our premium Tuna Melt; melty cheese on marble rye, or premium Tuna on hearty multigrain bread.
Simple in all the right ways.

08/23/2026

There’s something meaningful about cooking the way generations before us cooked—honoring our heritage, preserving the traditions we grew up with, and sharing those flavors with the next generation.
Available all day Fridays!
Served with house made applesauce.

Potato pancakes in Wisconsin are a German thing, a Polish thing and a Jewish thing all at once, and which name people use depends entirely on whose kitchen the recipe came from.

The German version is kartoffelpuffer, brought over by the immigrants who filled Milwaukee and the eastern counties in the 1800s. The Polish version is placki ziemniaczane, which came with the families who settled the south side of Milwaukee and the mill towns. The Jewish version is latkes, tied to Hanukkah and fried in oil for reasons that go back to the holiday itself. All three are essentially the same object.

The method does not vary much. Grate raw potatoes, grate an onion in with them, wring out as much liquid as you possibly can, then bind with egg and a little flour or matzo meal. Season with salt and pepper. Fry in a hot pan with enough fat that the edges go dark and lacy.

The wringing is the step people skip and then wonder why their pancakes fell apart. Old cooks put the shreds in a dish towel and twist until their forearms burn. Some let the drained liquid settle and scrape the potato starch off the bottom to add back in.

The topping question splits rooms. Applesauce or sour cream, and there are people who will do both on the same plate while others consider that a failure of conviction. German households in Wisconsin tend toward applesauce. Some families serve them alongside sausage or pork roast as a side rather than a dish of their own.

You find them at Milwaukee's ethnic festivals, at supper clubs, at church fish fries where somebody decided to expand the menu, and at Mader's and the other old German restaurants downtown.

But mostly they show up at home, in December, in a kitchen where the windows are fogged over and somebody has been standing at the stove for forty minutes making batch after batch while everyone else eats them straight out of the pan before they reach the table.

08/15/2026

Saturday’s Delicious Dilemma: Sweet or Savory?
Start with a bowl of cream of potato with smoked gouda, a hot pressed sandwich, fresh and colorful mixed green salad, or dive into our chocolatey bread pudding, cookies ‘n cream cake ball, or scotcheroo cannoli. Why choose?
Treat yourself to both!
Team savory or Team sweet?
Tell us in the comments.😊

08/02/2026

We love community, we love small business!

Free vendor market — open to the public.

08/01/2026

The rain is falling, and comfort food is calling.
Grab a bowl of broccoli cheddar soup, or a freshly made sandwich.....let us take care of you for a bit.

07/31/2026

How’s your Friday looking after a
L O N G and challenging week?
We hope you agree that treating yourself to a quiet evening out, enjoying a delicious dinner or some decadent desserts crafted with love and great care ❤️ is one of the best ways to reward yourself.

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