You might have noticed the sign of the new breakfast and lunch place while tooling down Broadway: Top Nosh, at number 375, which opened a month ago. Owned by Kelly and Scott Nadler, the restaurant and caterer serves breakfast and lunch and is already doing a brisk business with the two hospitals (now merged as Health Alliance), catering meetings, presentations, and doctors’ meetings with drug reps, among other things.
“Everything is made from scratch,” said Kelly. “The only thing we buy is French bread from Deising’s. We offer a full breakfast, as well as bagels and egg sandwiches and pancakes. Our regular lunch menu includes big salads, wraps and burgers. We have a food case that my husband fills up every day with things like eggplant rollatino, macaroni and cheese, and chicken cutlets.” Sample specials are roasted game hen with homemade macaroni and cheese and golden battered shrimp with a garlic lemon dipping sauce served over veggie fried rice. There’s chicken matzo ball soup and vegetarian chili, pesto Greek pasta, potato salad, pineapple jalapeno chutney over chicken fingers…getting hungry?
The lunch special ranges from $4.95 to $8.95. The average breakfast is $4 or $5, with the large combo including bacon and sausages and eggs and coffee priced at $9.95. Breakfast is served all day. Top Nosh is open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, with plans to open weekends in the summer.
The Nadlers, who have seven employees, know their stuff, having operated the Black Bear Deli, across from the Hurley Ridge Market on Rt. 375, for many years. Kelly said after losing their lease—their success brought in so many cars the landlord didn’t want them to stay—they were scouting out new digs in Woodstock but were turned off by the “Manhattan rents.” Her father-in-law showed them a flyer about a building on Broadway for sale and told them to check it out, noting the proximity of the hospitals.
“We bought the building and renovated all the way back to the walls,” said Kelly. “My experience so far has been wonderful. We’ve gotten a great reception.” Between the deliveries to City Hall, the two hospitals, the medical building next door, and the auto repair places, they’ve gotten plenty of business. “There’s lots of fast food” on the Broadway corridor, but at Top Nosh “it’s homemade fast food.”
Excellent spot for lunch! We were heading south on 87 and googled lunchspots in Kingston. This is the link that came up. They pleased a family of five and we got cookies for the car! Beats stopping at a rest stop.
I visited their website – http://www.topnoshkingston.com and put in a delivery order. Came when they said so, was delicious. Really easy and the best delivered food in Kingston.