Quarantine keeping you from grocery store-hopping to get your Passover seder ingredients? You can count on one of these restaurants, markets or caterers to create the perfect meal for you and your family during this shelter-in-place. All are offering pick up and many are delivering across the Bay Area starting as early as April 6 and going as late as April 16. Just order early if you want that comforting bowl of matzoh ball soup.
Wise Sons Deli: From the Jewish Contemporary Museum hot spot to you, co-founder Evan Bloom and his team are offering everything from housemade gefilte fish and charoset to prune-tinged brisket and chocolate-caramel-covered matzoh. Buy dishes individually ($5-$72) or get the full seder kit ($196), which includes seder plate, bottle of J. Lohr cabernet and dinner for 2 to 4, with leftovers recipe guuide. Available for pick up in San Francisco or delivery (with fee) between April 7 and 16. Order two days in advance of pick up/delivery. https://wisesonsdeli.com/passover
Market Hall Foods: Seder plate essentials, Passover specialties, main dishes and desserts, this gourmet Rockridge market offers it all for curbside pickup April 6 to 9. We’re smitten with the springtime kugel, featuring new season spinach and green garlic; Scott’s famous chopped liver; and matzoh ball soup. Did we mention the Chocolate Carrot Bundt Cake made with matzoh meal and almond flour? Order online at www.rockridgemarkethall.com. For pickup April 6, order by noon on April 4; for pickup April 7 to 9, order by noon April 5. Oakland store only.
Neshama: This kosher-certified caterer in Palo Alto specializes in modern Israeli cuisine, including, for Passover, seder boxes for one featuring meat ($36) or vegan ($29) options. The meat features Mom’s brisket with potato kugel, seasonal veggies, matzoh ball soup and chocolate macaroons. There’s also a seder plate box ($40) with all the fixings. Delivered cold on April 7 up to 100 miles from Palo Alto. www.neshamafoods.com/shop
Balagan: Napa-based caterer Itamar Abramovitch, whose Israeli pop-up Balagan was a longtime hit inside CIA at Copia, is offering an all-inclusive seder meal ($80 per person) featuring everything for your seder plate down to the parsley sprigs, plus gefilte fish, matzah ball soup, braised brisket, confit baby potatoes, chopped liver and more. Abramovitch is delivering everywhere in the Bay Area on April 7. Order by April 5 at www.blossomcatering.com/passover.
Canela: Chef Mat Schuster is offering his famed Spanish-inspired seder meal for pick up and delivery via Postmates April 7 to 16. It’s a four-course meal ($49 per person), including matzoh ball soup with “bubbe’s farfel,” savory matzah brei with oyster mushrooms and paprika–sour cream drizzle and roasted duck breast with horseradish marble potatoes and pecan-haroset compote. Did we mention housemade matzoh? Ask about the Spanish wine pairings, too. Call 415-552-3000 or email [email protected].
