Alef Sausage & Deli — Restaurant in Mundelein

My major complaint is not about the quality of food. This place simply fails to follow COVID-19 guidelines and rules on masks wearing from CDC and State of Illinois. All servers wear their masks under their noses, so their breath is not covered. When they cut, slice or pack your food, any droplets from their breath land on the food you'll be consuming. I don't even want to think what's going on in the back in the kitchen where they are out of sight. They probably don't wear masks/gloves there at all.

You can only pray no one of them is contagious, as it seems that the owner doesn't care. I saw him walking around the floor, but he did not pay any attention how his employees wear...

(The latest review). I wouldn't recommend to buy the meat pies (called belyashi) here. The meat filling inside them looks undercooked. Also I was disappointed with potato pies here. The last time I bought them they were overcooked and burned.

(Previous review) I especially love their chebureki with pork and with lamb meat. These are the best, juicy, genuine recipe-made chebureki in Chicago. My advice, before visiting this store call them and ask a seller to hold several chebureki for you because they will go fast. Also ther pierozhki with cabbage, vatrushki with cottage cheese...

Very unpleasant experience. Was one of my go to grocery store. Good food however customer service is below ZERO, especially lady, that you see every time you shop there. Rude, unhelpful and unprofessional. Every time I go there, I spend over $200-$300, expecting just normal human behavior, like in USA (not in Soviet Union): hello, smile, ready to help and to satisfy customer needs, instead of showing attitude, been bossy and worst of all, getting to the...