Smoked here.
Cured here.
Since '87.
JN&Z Deli is a Commercial Drive Eastern-European delicatessen with 4.8 stars on 172 reviews, family-run since 1987. This page is a draft web design from X9 — an unsolicited proposal. The photos here are placeholders. The number above is the shop's; we're X9.
One of Vancouver's oldest Eastern-European delis.
Since 1987 the same family has run the same counter on Commercial Drive, doing the slow work most shops gave up long ago — smoking and curing meats and sausages on site, by hand, the old way. No shortcuts, no factory in another city. What you slice at home was made here, in the back, on a schedule the salt and the smoke set.
It reads like an almanac because that is how curing works: a calendar of fresh, salt, smoke, hang, and slice. This draft lays the shop out the way the case does — plainly, and in order. Cash only, the way it has always been.
Five stages, start to slice.
Curing is patience made edible. Salt draws the water; smoke carries flavour and keeps; the hang does the long quiet rest. Five steps, the same as a hundred years ago.
- 01
Fresh
The cut comes in whole and trimmed by hand.
- 02
Salt-cure
Salt and spice draw the water and set the flavour.
- 03
Smoke
Slow smoke on site — colour, scent, keeping.
- 04
Hang
The long rest. Time does the rest of the work.
- 05
Slice
Cut to order at the case, thin as you like.
What's behind the glass.
Prices indicative — owner to confirm. Hours · owner to confirm. Cash only.
Made here, sliced here.
On Commercial Drive since 1987.
- Address
- 1729 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC V5N 4A4
- Neighbourhood
- Commercial Drive · Grandview-Woodland
- Phone
- (604) 251-4144
- Payment
- Cash only
- Hours
- Owner to confirm
- Reputation
- 4.8★ on 172 Google reviews Call the deli