Who has the best gefilte fish around for your seder meal? Where can you get such lucious Passover desserts such as honey cakes and key lime macaroon pie? After your bubbie, who makes the best brisket and chicken dinners for Passover? Whose matzo ball soup is the best around?
The Answer for all Four Questions: Max and Benny's
Friday, March 30, 2012
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Your One-Stop Passover Food Location
So you are getting ready for your seder dinner and you still need a few items. What to do? Come to Max and Benny's, your one-stop Passover food location. Not only do we get folks from all over the North Shore who come to us for their Passover food needs, but people also come from the city of Chicago and cities in southern Wisconsin as well. So as to paraphrase Julius Caesar (of salad dressing fame) "all roads lead to Max and Benny's during Passover."
Marvin the Maven
Marvin the Maven
Monday, March 19, 2012
Pick-Up Your Passover Dinner At Max and Benny's!
Why labor over your hot kitchen stove this coming Passover when Max and Benny's has all the delicious and traditional food for your Passover seder ready for you to pick-up and take home? Our dinners to go for the Passover season have now been a Chicago area tradition for twenty-six years. Besides your Bubbie, who can make brisket and chicken for the seder dinner better than Max and Benny's? Not to mention the best gefilte fish, matzo ball soup and potato kugel in the area. And Passover desserts to die for! Max and Benny's has macaroons, honey cakes and oh so much more! So make your life a whole lot easier by ordering your Passover dinner to go from Max and Benny's today.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Max and Benny's Goes Irish
This week you might as well call us Max O'Benny's as we are going very Irish and very green in celebration of St. Patrick's Day. Enjoy great entrees in our restaurant such as lamb stew and corned beef and cabbage. Our bakery is making incredible green bagels, as well as amazing St. Paddie Day cookies and other sweet treats. Stop in for a Guiness and enjoy Max O'Benny's! 
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Max Zaslofsky
I was playing Chicago Jewish sports trivia today with a guy at Max and Benny's and Max Zaslofsky's name came up. Zaslofsky, without a doubt, was the best Jewish professional basketball player that ever shot hoops on a Chicago team. He played for the Chicago Stags from 1946-1950. During the first three years of his career, the Stags played in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), a rival league founded to compete with the already established National Basketball League (NBL) in 1946. The two leagues merged at the end of the 1948-49 season and became the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Chicago Stags played one year as a NBA team, folding the franchise after the 1949-50 season, and letting its players be picked up in a dispersal draft.
A guard, Zaslofsky had a great two-handed set shot. He played one collegiate year at St. John's in his hometown of New York, and then signed on with the new Stags franchise, which included Arthur Wirtz in its ownership group. The team played at Wirtz's Chicago Stadium.
Zaslofsky had four outstanding seasons with the Stags. He led them in the BAA Finals in his rookie year, but the team lost the title to the Philadelphia Warriors. Zaslofsky's 877 points that year was the fourth highest total in the league. One of his fellow backcourt players for the Stags was another Jewish player, Chicagoan Mickey Rottner, who played high school hoops at Tuley and collegiate basketball at Loyola.
Zaslofsky was a prolific scorer, by the professional standards of the time, scoring over 1,000 points per season for the Stags three consecutive years. He was picked up by the New York Knicks in the dispersal draft and had three more productive years for the Knicks. He played sporadically for three other NBA teams before concluding his professional career in 1956.
During the NBA's Silver Anniversary in 1971, Zaslofsky was chosen as one of the league's top twenty-five players in its first twenty-five years (the other Jewish player in this group being Dolph Schayes). Zaslofsky's 7900 career points scored was the third highest in the history of the league when he retired in 1956.
Cousin Richie
A guard, Zaslofsky had a great two-handed set shot. He played one collegiate year at St. John's in his hometown of New York, and then signed on with the new Stags franchise, which included Arthur Wirtz in its ownership group. The team played at Wirtz's Chicago Stadium.
Zaslofsky had four outstanding seasons with the Stags. He led them in the BAA Finals in his rookie year, but the team lost the title to the Philadelphia Warriors. Zaslofsky's 877 points that year was the fourth highest total in the league. One of his fellow backcourt players for the Stags was another Jewish player, Chicagoan Mickey Rottner, who played high school hoops at Tuley and collegiate basketball at Loyola.
Zaslofsky was a prolific scorer, by the professional standards of the time, scoring over 1,000 points per season for the Stags three consecutive years. He was picked up by the New York Knicks in the dispersal draft and had three more productive years for the Knicks. He played sporadically for three other NBA teams before concluding his professional career in 1956.
During the NBA's Silver Anniversary in 1971, Zaslofsky was chosen as one of the league's top twenty-five players in its first twenty-five years (the other Jewish player in this group being Dolph Schayes). Zaslofsky's 7900 career points scored was the third highest in the history of the league when he retired in 1956.
Cousin Richie
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