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4500 Richmond Ave. Houston, TX 77027

713-963-8005

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Houston Press
Recommended
Best Deli
Award Winner 2002

Cuisine(s): Deli

Hours: Daily 8am-4pm

Price: $
Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards, cash, check

Attire: Casual

Features: Takeout, Delivery, Wheelchair Accessible
Serving: Lunch

Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary

Parking: Lot Available

Description

Unstinting applications of a good, snowy mayonnaise make this Danish hole-in-the-wall's old-fashioned chicken and potato salads among the very best in town. Other treats: corned beef and Swiss on rye with a pale, homemade liver pté; devastating Danish butter cookies by the sack. Ixnay on the cheesecake. Take out, unless you enjoy closetlike quarters.

2002 | Best Deli

When the original owners of Nielsen's first came to Houston from Denmark, they tried to sell the famous Danish open-faced sandwiches called smorrebrod. But customers didn't know how to eat the messy sandwiches (Danes use a fork and knife) and the health department wouldn't let them be displayed without some kind of covering. So Nielsen's gave up and started serving American-style overstuffed sandwiches with cole slaw, potato salad and deviled eggs on the side. Fifty years later, Nielsen's... More »

My 10 Favorite Houston Sandwiches

By Jeff Balke | Thu, November 3, 2011

Like Ginny Braud, I love sandwiches. Let me say that again: I LOVE sandwiches. Everyone who knows me knows this. It's become almost embarrassing given the fact that I'm on the wrong side of 40 and I s... More »
Egg Salad Sandwich at Nielsen's Delicatessen

By Joanna O'Leary | Fri, September 2, 2011

Several months ago I bemoaned the fact that many Houston delis/sandwich shops do not carry egg salad, in a post on the Hobbit Cafe's Far Down, a spectacular dill egg salad sandwich loaded with avocado... More »
Hot plate

By Alison Cook | Thu, April 28, 1994

Blond on Blond Nielsen's is the Marilyn Monroe of Houston delicatessens -- pale, creamy and voluptuous, talisman of a quaint era in which goddesses had meat on their bones and nobody discussed cholesterol. Remember when mayo wasn't a four-l... More »

Main

Salad

Dixie Cup $2.95
1/2 Pt. $5.25
Pint $9.05
Quart $14.25

Potato