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Soft opening at Mendelson’s Pizza Toms River — the same Brooklyn taste & experience you grew up with

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Guys, it's super exciting. Mendelson's Pizza just opened a little less than an hour ago. Still that soft opening. Some got huge out of the schmear. We able to open up within 3-4 weeks of getting this place. We worked around the clock. Right before Yom Tov, we realized we're able to open it and we said, "Let's do this." This is from the first few. From the first few. Kids, how's the How's the pizza? Really good. Really good. Now we have Oscar here, our main pizza man. He has experience, a lot of experience. Look how he's opening the pies. He really knows what he's doing. We came We brought him down to Brooklyn. He really understood Mendelson's and we brought him back here and now he's our front runner here in Mendelson's. Uh look at this specialty sauce, pizza sauce. Wow, this is what's this? A mushroom pie? >> Mushroom pie. Mushroom pie. Look at this. Look at this. Into the oven. There you go. Very good. Wow, look at this bubbles. Look at this. I like the bubbles. Leave it. So, you see all the ingredients here? Everything comes directly from Brooklyn. We're bringing everything daily. All the vegetables, the toppings, all the sauces, the pasta sauces, this all come from Brooklyn. This is In order to keep the flavor, in order to keep everything perfect, everything is brought from Brooklyn. The The french fries is coming from Brooklyn. No, so this is blanched in Brooklyn. Seriously? >> reheated over here. It's just to make sure you get a perfect Mendy's and experience. >> product. So, friend, this is the quinoa salad. This is to go. Of course, when they eat it over here, it's served on China. But, to go, it's the same delicious ingredients, crispy salad, crispy lettuce. Quinoa salad, but healthy-ish. So, this is our fresh quinoa salad. That wild quinoa was just made. It's cooling off. This is for our salads. This is our blintz prep. Uh you see, I know we're after shabbos, but people still love Mendy's and blintzes, and that's what we're here to serve them. Wow, this looks good. What is this? A cheese blintz? This is a cheese blintz. Mendy's and famous cheese blintzes. Here's a fresh garlic knots, done in house. Beautiful. Here we go into the next but oops, left. Wow, that is nice. You're quick. You're quick. >> With special rotel, pizza sauce and cut french fries. Here we have Chef William doing the fresh pasta. Mushrooms ravioli. Wow. This is our delicious ravioli. Mushroom ravioli? Mushroom ravioli. And our famous cream sauce. Now we're doing a personal pie. Look at this. Mushrooms, peppers, onions, eggplant, breaded eggplant. Let's go to the dessert oven. Ah, so good. Here's another personal pie, regular personal pie. Ah, so good. This is our guacamole nachos. This is delicious. This is something we always was able to serve in Brooklyn without the nachos. Now we put in the nachos for the oil lemon in New Jersey. Prime, this is our menu here. This is our soft opening menu. We created the most delicious menu. The best foods that Brooklyn has to offer, we brought here. We have the pizza, first of all the classic, all the classical pizza things. We're doing something very interesting. We're doing We're focusing on personal pies and regular full 18-in pizza. Our focus is personal. We're trying to up the bar here for everybody to have a better experience. and the same thing here with the we created a menu a cafe menu starters pastas the best pastas that we have in Brooklyn the starters that we have in Brooklyn the salads calzones and sides Wow. This is like served in China and this is for the customer to enjoy and have an amazing experience here at Mendelson's just like in Brooklyn. Rabbi one second I see already a customer buying the rolls what are these oh this looks good. pie This is uh This is our famous mushroom pizza everything from Brooklyn. So also from I wanted to tell you we have the CRC extra the same extra like we have in Brooklyn they know us already they work with us and this is how we can create the best salads the best freshest vegetables and all that working from Brooklyn bringing it here this is the way to go with the CRC so we were able to bring it here and this will be an amazing amazing enhancement to us. Guys how was the experience? Rabbi I want to let everybody know our address is 2360 Lakewood Road in Tri-City Plaza >> in Toms River New Jersey border of Lakewood Our our phone number is 732-884-0600 and in soft opening stage we're open from 11:00 to 7:00 daily. Thank you. We're here by Mendelson's. And I realize cheese and I look serious it feels the heavy feeling from the cheese so you have any time never the heavy feeling from the cheese over the heavy feeling from our children. Right? Okay not bad not bad. They said the cheese blintz. Hey also hot cheese and yeah? Give a kick to them. And this is a cloud of the schnitzel. If the schnitzel is not a schnitzel, it's not a schnitzel. So, it's The place doesn't make it a good schnitzel. By the way, pizza is a universal food. So, this definitely cannot happen in our old style unique. They got the slice. Very, very good. Just like I remember it. Sure, 30 years ago. Sure, sure. 30 years ago? Sure, yeah, whatever. From when I was a baby got my pizza. We We are the main star. They are such accumulated. >> [laughter] >> And this is done baby, too? No. How can this It was a party girl. Hey, Robert. Schnell. It's too late already. Brooklyn vibes. Schnitzel and the orders. To be shining our packing on the Mendelson's. Packaging beautiful. Ready to go. Thank you.