It's Purim-time... and I do love an apricot hamentashen! Anyone know where a good one is in the area? I've tried the ones at K's (not terribly impressed) and at the bakery in Eastern Market (better, but still not blown away). Any ideas?

Heya MBK-

Actually, I would try "So's Your Mom" - not to far from you, on Columbia, between 19th and 18th. It's right next to Astor Cafe and a Bank of America. They've got great stuff- the BEST corned beef & liver sandwich around, it's my favorite deli. Also, their sweets are good, and I know for a fact they have poppy seed humentashen, but not sure about apricot - I bet you could request it. Anyway, you must go there!

I believe So's Your Mom (on Columbia Rd. in Adams Morgan) has them, but I've never tried them.

I think there was a similar thread on the other board a year or two ago...

Mmmm, So's Your Mom *is* good, and I haven't been there in ages! Guess where I'm going this weekend......

And by the way, I love a good corned beef and chopped liver sandwich, so thanks for that tip as well!!

Heh, now I'm gonna have to go there this weekend as well - perhaps we should coordinate?

I'm there every weekend!
(it's a half block away, lucky me!)

Although they don't list it on the board, So's Your Mom makes a delicious Reuben as well. And their poppy seed hamentashen are great, if memory serves me right.

Been trying to figure out what I wanted to do for lunch today. I'll look into the hamentaschen situation while I'm there and report back this afternoon.

I am on the prowl for chocolate chip hamentashen. My grandmother used to make them for me but when I put in my request this year she just laughed.

I'm always looking for a decent cherry hamentashen.

Some Giant locations, usually in the Bethesda-Potomac-Silver Spring area, have okay ones. Enough to satisfy the craving for a few moments.

But nothing really special. There is a place in Park Slope, Brooklyn that has really nice ones but it's hard to justify a trip to NY just for a cookie.

Jennifer

Not that this is within the confines of the city by any means, but I believe that Wegmans carries a few kinds of hamentashen. I'll check next time I'm there and let folks know.

Ditto for "So's Your Mom," but my recommendation is based on old intel circa 1996 :-D

The Heidelberg Pastry Shoppe at Lee Hwy and N. Culpeper St in Arlington is also a good source.

Well you are in luck (maybe). So's Your Mom DOES have apricot hamentashen (spelled "Hamantash" on their blackboard) sitting on a tray next to the poppy seed ones. They are $2.50 each and seem rather large to me, but I don't have any way of judging their quality.

You didn't try one?

Jennifer

Not after getting the corned beef and liver sandwich.

I stopped by Stella's Bakery in Rockville today. They have apricot, prune, and poppy seed mini Hamantashen that are not bad. Best was the prune.

The Kosher Mart on Rollins Avenue in Rockville really has excellent Hamantasch. Great balance of pastry and fruit and very fresh when you time it right. We've gone there the last few years and they've always had apricot! Katz's in Rockville is pretty good but I find theirs to have too thick a cookie with not enough fruit.

FYI - So's Your Mom's poppy seed hamantaschen are excellent - although they're really big, so if you like a larger cookie-to-filling ratio you might be disappointed. I think they're awesome though.

Also, they carry rugelach in their bakery case, and the chocolate ones are excellent.

Ok, I grew up in NYC and I went to summer camp in Maine but I never heard of "hamantaschen" Please enlighten me.
Craig
sweet I'ma clam

Craig,
Haman is the villain of the Magilla - the story of Queen Esther told on the Jewish holiday called Purim. "Hamantaschen" is a pastry shaped like Haman's hat- a buttery pastry triangle filled with fruit (prune is the best). All the bakeries in New York have them in March/April.

Mark: Surely you wrote that merely to start a discussion, right?

I don't know what varieties they stock, but Shalom's in Wheaton is where we get our supply.

I actually saw some apricot hamentaschen on a tray at Vace in Cleveland Park last night. Didn't try them, but I may have to go back tonight.