Local first
Corned beef from United Meat & Deli, pickles from Topor's, bread from Superior and The Bake Station, chips from Better Made, pop from Faygo. Detroit on every tray.
A Detroit deli with a simple idea: the best local ingredients, cut fresh all day, and stacked higher than anybody expects.
Est. 1977
It started in 1977 with a counter, a slicer, and a stubborn belief that nobody should leave hungry. Decades later, the recipe hasn't changed: pile it high, keep it fresh, and treat every sandwich like it's got your name on it.
We're proud to be a neighborhood spot — the kind of place where the regulars don't need a menu and the corned beef is the reason everyone knows your order. That corned beef is still the heart of everything we do, cut fresh every three hours so it never sits and never disappoints.
What we stand for
Corned beef from United Meat & Deli, pickles from Topor's, bread from Superior and The Bake Station, chips from Better Made, pop from Faygo. Detroit on every tray.
Our corned beef is delivered daily and cooked fresh on-site every three hours. Nothing sits, nothing is an afterthought. Made to order, every time.
If you can finish it in three bites, we did it wrong. Generous portions aren't a gimmick here — they're the whole point. Come hungry; leave happy.
The journey
Bread Basket Deli opens its doors in Detroit with one mission: the biggest, freshest corned beef sandwich in the city.
Word spreads. The line out the door becomes a neighborhood landmark, and the signature subs earn their legend.
New Metro Detroit locations open, but the standard stays exactly the same — fresh-cut all day, every day.
Five neighborhood delis, a catering menu that feeds the whole office, and a corned beef obsession that hasn't cooled one degree.
The supporting cast
We could never do this alone. These Detroit-area makers help us keep the quality sky-high, batch after batch.
Come say hi
Forty-plus years of practice goes into every sandwich. There's only one way to find out — order up.