Chompie’s Deli

So I’m from Dallas and the gal at my hotel recommended Chompies, honestly I just wanted to go because the name made me giggle. This place is no joke! Absolutely amazing food, super friendly staff, and oh my my my the desserts!!! Highly recommend this to anyone staying in the area!

FROM BROOKLYN NEW YORK, MONTICELLO NY AND NEW JERSEY. Have eaten the best authentic bagels on this planet. No one in Arizona makes bagels, or bialys or swede rye bread even close to the recipes at chompies. That includes their cakes and cookies. The Scottsdale location has the best bakery hands down in Arizona. Old school European type baking spot on to the 50’s and 60’s imigrants that came from Europe and started these recipes. fresh brisket sliders with potatoe pancakes on a bun are to die for. The Jewish version of White Castle. Scotsdale only large BOBKA cake is the real things. Pastrami sandwiches excellent though not the best ever. Missing authentic old style deli mustard unfortunately. If you want authentic Jewish style look no further unless you want to waste your time. There is no authentic better bagels hands down anywhere in ARIZONA AND I MEAN ANYWHERE. This place is the real deal and will bring back New York memories of the best food you have ever eaten to this day. Costs a bit more but you get what you pay for in taste and wuality

Prompt seating and friendly service. We had the Pastrami Reuben on gluten free bread with a latke. The sandwich was lackluster. The amount of pastrami was minimal, the cheese was not melted all the way, little to no sauerkraut, gluten free bread was too thick and stale tasting. The latke was cold and tasted like it was made many hours earlier. This was a disappointing experience, compared to past. You would think Sat. nite would be a winner… not. Thanks for reading. The Bike Chaplain

This is one of those places, you get EXACTLY what you order. No frills, but the service is always awesome (Arthur is probably one of the most friendly servers I have ever had) and they have bread that’s low carb!
The only problem I have with Chompie’s is that the menu is so big, it’s always mind boggling to figure out what you want to eat. The portions are big, their cream cheeses are all delish (I particularly love the lox and the chive).
Their potato latkas are hard to pass up. They are a jewish style potato pancake. Their mile high sandwiches are HUGE. The meat is just piled up and fresh and you really can;t go wrong. I’ve also enjoyed their GIGANTIC salads (with a leftover serving or 2 for home), The Cobb salad is definitely my favorite. It’s enough for 2 – 3 meals and costs about $ 11.
I gotta say eating low carb, this is one of the best restaurants that is reasonable priced with several options. Sure, it’s hard to ignore the delicious smells of fresh bagels wafting around, and the awesome dessert display when you walk in, but if you can make it past that, you will have hot coffee refilled promptly, or order a nice bloody mary and enjoy some simple, large portions of food.
Bön apetit!

I visited this Chompie’s location today for brunch with my friend. I usually dine at the location in Tempe and after my experience at this location probably will stick to the one in Tempe only. This was an all around poor visit. From the greeting as we walked in to the walk out the door. The atmosphere was so dull, my food was warm not hot, the service was slow, there was no attempt to make for a great visit. Everyone seemed to be so disconnected. We didn’t receive silverware when we sat down and actually had to get up and get it from a station set up on a table next to use for servers to roll silverware. We also saw other tables doing that too…
The worst part about the visit was the manager’s actions. He was very short when we arrived. We never saw him talking to tables. And on top of that, in the middle of our service he was in our view while outside smoking a cigarette and plying on his phone in the front of the restaurant.
Like I said, we’ll stick to one in Tempe after that.

Years since I have been in the area and still love the food
The bagel skins are huge!
The Belgian waffle great …
Today I tried the breakfast sliders… delicious.
Only disappointment was the service today… coffee refills very slow…

Sunday 4:14pm. Met my 2 sisters for lunch. We weren’t super hungry and just wanted something small. We ordered the spinach artichoke rangoons (which came with homemade ranch) and the Jewish sliders (which came with brown gravy). Both were delicious! I wish I were more hungry so I could order more! My only complaint was that the challah bread was a little hard. I will definitely be back.

Huge portions and great food. Excellent staff priced fair. Loved this place, will be back.

I honestly loved this restaurant and this location for a couple years. I never had anything but a positive experience, but then a change occured a few months back. First, it was subtle, a few menu items changed pages or went missing from what was a frankly over-​sized menu in the first place, so nothing to worry about. Then, one day the menu had changed from 6 or so pages with extra inserts for even more items to 3 pages in total. This was a welcome change at first, even if it meant losing some items I actually liked.
As we looked closely, however, I realized slowly that almost nothing was missing. They had crammed in margins on every page, taking at least two pages of menu items and practically hiding half of them in the margins. This was not a good sign. It said to me they were almost entirely doing this to reduce the cost of printing menus. It also may have resulted from complaints from the employees, which were starting to become noticeably aged. I’m not saying that an older man/​woman can’t be a good waitress, but when a restaurant suddenly goes from 90% wait staff in their 20s to 90% women in their 60s it just says to me again that they’re cutting costs.
Now, cost-​cutting is part of doing business, because you can’t always make enough money and that demands action. But that would be with a failing or struggling restaurant. This Chompie’s location, however, RARELY had open seating from sun up to sun down. It was always packed with paying customers, so they clearly had no need of cutting corners.
This brings me to the food itself. Chompie’s has gone from the most consistently delicious deli-​style food in town, to hands down the worst. This occured within the span of 2 months, which I can only assume coincides with a change in management. It’s so bad, now, that during my last visit the Jewish Sliders which normally come with a rich, thick brown gravy were instead served with a blatantly cut gravy served lukewarm at best. It was so thin, that by comparison, if it was the same gravy at all, it would’ve been 10% gravy and 90% water, which I wish was an exageration, but it just isn’t. You could see the bottom of the cup through it! And the brisket, which is normally cooked to perfection was clearly microwaved and so old I wouldn’t be surprised if they pulled it off other uneaten sandwiches.
This is the new quality of this chompie’s location, and I would warn anyone to stay away and let them go out of business, because they’re no longer interested in having customers. They’ve proven that much.

Chompies has been around forever, and with good reason. Very good comfort food and the bagels are the best you will find in our fair state.
As you might imagine– the bagels are the star here. I love the sesame and garlic bagels– super good! Don’t forget to try their delicious cream cheese!

Can I give zero stars?
We just finished our meal at Chompie’s and I felt I had to write my review while the memory was still fresh, unlike the food. It was my worst meal in a long, long time.
Our server asked if we were ready to order as soon as we sat down, which is odd considering the menu is 6 pages long. Tip one: don’t eat at a restaurant that has a big menu because it means they don’t do anything well.
I ordered the Biltmore Benedict with a potato latke side. The Benedict was SALTY. It was salt-​lick salty. I couldn’t eat more than a couple of bites. The latke was a tasteless potato puck, only harder.
I guess it’s partly my fault because if I had wanted an «authentic New York Deli,» I should have gone to New York. My bad.
Tip two: don’t ever go to Chompie’s.

I loved Chompies when I lived in Tempe, but the Chandler location doesn’t seem to serve the same quality with the same attitude.
The service is impersonal. The food is sub-​par, from limp bacon to undercooked eggs. I also don’t understand the $ 7.50 price tag for a single Belgian waffle. It wasn’t particularly big or tasty.
I’ll still keep coming for the sliders and the bakery, but I hope this location someday can match the quality of the Tempe Chompies.

Roxie took special care of us, thanks. If Chompie’s is a mile high pastrami, Roxie is the mustard.

If you want deli food and you live in the valley of the sun, Chompies is your best option.

Been here a couple times for breakfast only and each time I have had a good experience.
The wait can get long on weekends so plan accordingly. I usually have the breakfast of champions which is 2 eggs, choice of bacon or sausage, and 2 pancakes. The pancakes are pretty good.
The décor is sort set up in a NY style deli/​restaurant. I hear they have good bagels but I’ve never tried one.
Service is always good and the staff always friendly.
I haven’t been exactly blown away by anything but I have no complaints. I’ll come back when I’m in the area.

Hit this place up June 13, 2015. 9 AM
Well to start the food is always good here so that is why we come. They treat the kids well. Free samples. Free kids cookie. But then something happens making me question why we come here…
Someone needs to use the restroom. If you ever have the need preparers be disgusted. These are some of the nasties restrooms in the in industry. The floors are covered in grease, they smell, they look like they are never professionally cleaned. Check out the partially alive cock roach laying on the floor. Then you have to touch the soap dispenser and the handles and the towel dispenser.
Sure few people wash their hands thoroughly for 2 – 3 minutes with soap in hot water but most people don’t use enough soap and clearly don’t rinse for 2 minutes and the rest of the people, kids included, leave the piss and crap on their hands… and all that leave this room with the cooks, wait staff, hostesses, dishwashers, etc. fecal matter EVERYWHERE because everyone has to touch all that stuff.
Back to the ROACH… well if there is 1 there is at least 1000. If their germs aren’t enough then think of all that poison that is needs to partially kill this one. It has to be all over this establishment. Picture to prove it… check it out.
Someone needs to call the health inspector and they should bring the roach patrol. This place is nasty.

Cockroaches! Beware if you eat here you might end up with a huge cockroach crawling on you!!!
Here is the story of a horrific lunch experience. We decided to eat at Chompie’s for a graduation luncheon to celebrate with family and friends… What started out being fine with our drinks served transformed into a nightmare.
Food was served… by the owner (did not know that at the time) I ordered their signature meal– the jewish sliders, others ordered the coney hotdog, potato pancakes, salmon bagel. Food looked fine but looks can be very deceiving.
Everyone had at least a bite taken when I looked up and saw the mortified face of the person seated across from me. That look only means one thing… something terrible is wrong and it’s on you! I looked down to find the largest cockroach I have ever seen crawling on my left shoulder!
As a side note, I am not afraid of bugs… However a cockroach is far more then just a simple bug, and the size of this cockroach would give the heebie-​jeebies to the toughest men.
Naturally, I swatted at it… Making it land close to the person I was sitting next towe both in reaction jumped out of the booth we were in … The man that delivered our food just moments ago was there in an instant & to our shock grabbed this beast of a rodent by his bare hands. My only thought is that the next table he served got a little extra on their plate!
Not even having one full bite of my lunch the only thing the manager did was say he would take care of the meal… WHAT MEAL? We didn’t get to get before our unwanted guest arrived, in my view absolutely nothing was done to rectify this absolutely grotesque situation.
This was no ordinary lunch, this was a lunch to celebrate a great achievement and enjoy each other company. Now forever will these graduates will remember their graduation lunch with a huge disgusting cockroach oppose a celebration of their success as to what the lunch was intended for.
Not only did Chompie’s completely embarrass me, it also completely mortified me.
I want you to image a cockroach the size of your thumb crawling on you right after you bight into your food… How would you react and feel? Then add a special celebration to the situation. I am completely mortified.

I first tried their bagel & cream cheese based on my friend’s recommendation. and it was great.
After the first experience, I cannot help myself but keep going chompie’s and try various bagels and cream cheese. All of them are good, but my personal favorite is Chocolate chip bagel & Strawberry cream cheese.
I have never tried food from deli, so I cannot guarantee their food but honestly, their bagels and cream cheese are amazing! I just love them.

Tracy is the most hospitable, friendly uninterrupting waitress at the Chandler Chompies. Love this gal! Will request her for future visits.
I ordered the strawberry pancakes with the whip cream and graham cracker crumbs. But I made a request to get bananas and walnuts added, since the banana pancakes sounded good, too. Tracy didn’t bat an eye before saying the request wasn’t a problem. Can do attitude! No who doesn’t appreciate that when you are teetering between two menu choices. Thanks for making my morning!

I am slacking on my reviews. We’ve been here probably 40 times in the past 4 years. What’s up with not giving them some Unilocal love?
I think 37 of those times were for breakfast and we have worked our way through most of the breakfast menu. Love the huge omelets and fried potatoes that come on the side. Never had a bad meal here.
Most recently Mr. M and I had had a very long day of work and house hunting and were exhausted. I suggested Chompie’s because I was craving some soup. I had the matzo ball soup and he had the clam chowder. Both were delicious and we were passing those bowls back and forth. I ended up keeping the chowder and taking a large bowl of it home for Saturday. They only have the chowder on Fridays, but they have 5 or 6 other kinds of soup every day.
I also had the Jewish sliders and he had a half sandwich with hard salami and Havarti on sourdough. I can’t even type hard salami without getting the giggles, let alone say it. Their famous sliders were excellent as always and Mr. M’s sandwich accompanied the soup perfectly.
The bakery counter is amazing and full of all kinds of goodies. I try not to look at it when I’m in there or I will get sucked in.
Only once out of all the times we’ve been here have we had bad service and that was an older broad working the bakery counter who was ignoring everyone so she could chat with her friend about how things used to be in New York. blah blah blah. She needed a reminder that she was at work, BUT I haven’t seen her in a long, long time so maybe she moved back East. Usually the employees are very friendly and efficient. I would say Chompie’s is my #1 breakfast choice and then the Biscuits on Dobson. Excellent food every time!