Opened in 1946 by the Morantz brothers, who had just returned from the war. Three generations later, a grandson still runs the counter.
Abe and Joe Morantz, returning from the war, opened a delicatessen in 1946 – their sister Pearl and her husband Ben Ash already had theirs on Van Horne Street. Two years later, their brother Phil joined them on Décarie Boulevard, then on the edge of the city, when Côte-Saint-Luc was still only agricultural land.
The house has never left this address. It went from twelve tables to one hundred and four places in the 1970s, without ever giving up the Polish recipes of the Fishman family: around 550 kilos of smoked meat, 135 kilos of smoked salmon and 90 kilos of coleslaw are sold there every week.
Hart Fishman, Phil's grandson, is today a co-owner. “It's been a big, local community centre for the Jewish community in Montréal. I take a lot of pride in continuing that,” he says. “We've withstood the test of time. ” Families follow one another over several generations — one customer said she ate there with her grandparents, then with her own children, then with her grandchildren.