The Kosher Store

Pitiful! Shame on HEB. They does not care about stocking this part of the store for any of the holidays. It is 2 days before Rosh Hashanah and NO Zomick's round raisin challah. Last week I was there and NO kosher meat or chicken at all. The manager of the HEB store doesn't care and keeps on blaming the bad selections on "the warehouse" who she says ignores her orders and "sends what they want". I am here in Austin 30 years and it goes from bad to worse. NO Batempte New Pickles, sometimes no SauerKraut and a terrible selection of meats when they DO have them :-) Living in diaspora is living in Austin Texas! Guess I will continue to get care packages from New Jersey sent to me, especially for the holidays!

Wow, incredible Kosher store in the city. Me and my girlfriend were surprised to find one. Since she has a Kosher background of upbringing, we stopped here for some food items to cook back at some of her relatives house. We purchased Steaks, Pork, Chicken, Fish, and many more. Place is clean, and everything is freshly made. Compared to some of our Kosher stores back home in California. These guys keep it together. I also love the Taste of the salad wraps. Nice place, and good workers and owners here. This will be our now go to spot when we visit here,

Got there 10 minutes before they closed (a Google search indicated 6:30pm but it ended up closing at 6pm - no fault of the restaurant). The cashier rudely indicated they would not sell us any hot food once it was our turn in line. Given my reasonable nature towards others, I probably would have understood but that damn tone was unnecessary. Also, we were waiting in line about 10 minutes and the cashier *could* have let people in the line know. The "restaurant" is inside the HEB and the seating is a bit awkward. Tables and chairs are packed tight in the space. The seating area is near a freezer and facing the kitchen with very little ability to walk around. No windows to see out of either. Food seemed reasonably priced. It is nice to have a restaurant inside a grocery store, especially specialty food (kosher).*disclaimer: we did not eat any food from here so this is purely a review of service and ambiance :-)

Nice kosher spot in the Deep South. Service and food is good and prices are reasonable.

This is a really unique location for Kosher food and I've never really seen it done in this way before. The product offered is great. I had the Brisket and the remains of the Reuben sandwich and I'm still dreaming of both.That's how good this place is. Prices are fair in comparison to what I'm used to in Toronto. This place makes me shameful for what I have available to me back home and someone there should take note because this place is WAY better than anything I have back home!

When I first saw "The Kosher Store" on Yelp, I swore it was a joke. Upon arrival, I was shocked to see that they actually do have a little cultural pocket for the Kosher folk. The deli menu is no-frills, and the calm blue and white makes it feel like a serene East coast deli... that happens to be blessed by a Rabbi. It is hard to imagine that everything in this corner of a North Austin HEB is "not not kosher."The pricing is a bit steep, but maybe I am safe to assume that much Jewish grub is pricey. Perhaps they are able to pay for the premiums for these offerings that sit in your stomach and are in religious regulations. Specifically, the $11 reuben was a bit off-putting. This is undoubtedly a New York price.I went with a half corned beef. The bread was stale and dry, in that crumbly stage, more or less. The rye flavor was not present. The corned beef was not the hot smoked corned beef that you get in many a NY deli, but rather this cold, deli meat sort of stuff. Yikes. As you can imagine, this was one of my least favorite $7 in Austin. Austin is a sandwich town; you can do better.In trying to sound cool, I will say the "prices are so not kosher, dude." Alas, why am I presenting KS with a 2? Well, at least they make an effort to provide quality grub to those who cannot eat un-Kosher fare.

Kosher sandwiches, yummy. No cheese. Ask them to spread some hummus love instead. Gotta love that pastrami and beef salami.Must eat kosher? You don't have that many choices anyway.

I got the famous $12 reuben, hoping for an (almost) New York Jewish Deli experience -- not so much. The pastrami/corned beef? on the sandwich wascured, but not clearly identifiable. There was no swiss cheese (probably to keep it kosher). A nice thousand island/russian dressing and saurkraut grilled on the flat top. All on a very texas-style (not New York) rye bread.Guess I'll stick with BBQ on my next visit to Austin.

Stopped in for a steak and a pastrami sandwich .Steak was excellent and reasonably priced.Sandwich was tasty but not award winning.They don't give you anything on the site with your order.A pickle? Some potato salad?

The comment about "jewish grub" is an uneducated and slightly offhanded comment. People have the right to post an opinion, and we have the right to comment. I never heard of "jewish food", perhaps this uneducated person is referring to kosher food? Declaring food kosher is a process that must be paid for and this kosher section of H.E.B. recognises there is a segment of the local population who value staying kosher. Perhaps someone was trying to be 'funny' when he posted his review but it is not. My only suggestion for H.E.B. is to carry more kosher items and 'if' feasible, lower the prices a bit or offer sales from time to time.