Max's (Opera Plaza; 601 Van Ness/Golden Gate Ave.;771-7301;www.maxsworld.com) Are you up for New York's Carnegie Deli Western style? Upbeat schtick?Addicted to pleasures of eating and show no signs of breaking the habit? Want to be sung to by aspiring opera-singing waitpersons? On Wednesday nights ivory tickler Sean Bart (dizzy_fingers@hotmail.com)is required by law to woo you with 3 popular classics standards: Memory (Cats);Theme from Charlie Brown (Linus & Lucy); and My Way.
Max's world is for SHARING SO EAT, DARLING, EAT!. Try the popular 1/2 lb. corn beef or pastrami on corn rye served with sides of potato salad or Caesar's, coleslaw and unlimited pickles. (Add $2 and each person gets an extra salad if you share). And remember, if you're dining during rush hour (5-8:30), there is a $15.00 minimum per person. Can't get enough of dry-aged charbroiled steaks? The 10-oz.top Angus sirloin (17.95), 14 oz. spicy blackened Angus boneless ribeye (24.95) and scores more are delectable. Not grass-fed or hormone free but who's kvetching? Maybe Morton's of Chicago fame, at double the price?
At Max's world you'll find meatloaf,pot pie, Mediterranean chicken, and hearty peasant-style cabbage soup. This is even a great place for a diet if you are carb. conscious with its delicious veggie burger (9.95);salmon remoulade (17.95); lemon-herbed grilled chicken (14.95). There's even a fat-free sundae with raspberries (6.95) and a dark chocolate decadent cake! (4.50).
And a Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not! "Have a drink on me if you spot a food critic." These days, who isn't a critic? There are 12 locations, including a new Max's in the Heartland's capitol of beef, none other than Chicago, where owner Berkowitz is taking on the Big Guys!
I love Max's and am reminded that poor Henry David Thoreau who died at 45 partly of malnutrition could have visited a place like this on one of those 40-mile solitary hikes on the outskirts of Concord. Imagine, he could have doubled his life span!
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover I had not lived. (Walden)
CONGRATULATIONS TO DAVID BERKOWITZ, YOU HAVE MADE YOUR FATHER AND GRANDFATHER PROUD!
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