Featured Stories Lifestyle Food Headlines Lipkin’s Bakery, a Philadelphia staple for a half-century, remains true to its bakery roots. But now it’s more than a bakery. It’s a deli.
Just Google it and you’ll see the listing: Lipkin’s Deli & Bakery on Haverford Avenue in Philadelphia’s Overbrook Park neighborhood. Now that it’s a deli, Lipkin’s is open past 2 p.m.
Sunday-Thursday. It also now has a dining area for people to eat in. And, of course, it offers deli food such as pastrami, corned beef and roast beef.
This new Lipkin’s is a realization of the vision of Paul Spangler, the bakery’s owner and a Bensalem resident. In 2022, as told in the Jewish Exponent, Spangler’s Best Cake Kosher Bakery merged with Steven Nawalany’s Lipkin’s Bakery. But Nawalany left the business at the end of 2023.
The new owner described Lipkin’s as the only fully kosher deli around. “What we recognized was that there was a huge shortage. There was no place you could get a deli sandwich that was kosher.
Not as a restaurant. Not a single one,” he said. Lipkin’s spent 47 years in Northeast Philadelphia.
But then it had to close due to the rising cost of ingredients and difficulty hiring front-of-house staff, according to that 2022 Exponent story. That was where Spangler came in. A longtime customer of Lipkin’s, he had discussed different business ideas with Nawalany over the years.
Lipkin’s closed in May that year; Spangler reached out in July about a potential par.
