Mount Helena Deli

Mount Helena Deli

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Posted 2014-07-10 by Douglas Sutherland-Brucefollow
I often meet people in catering and hospitality with absolutely no background in the trade. But I seldom meet anyone like Duane, who has practically grown up in the business.

He has nearly twenty-seven years working and cooking in delis with his family and it shows.



He and his family, the Jacksons, owned Mt Helena Deli twenty-six years ago, when Duane was still a teenager and the deli was still called 'Sanga Jack's'.



It was then in what might charitably be called a 'rustic' building. The Jacksons then tore it down and purpose-built the rather handsome building it now occupies.

After a short hiatus while others ran the deli and Duane ran an entirely other deli Duane is back where he should be - running the best fast-food deli I know of.

A working day in the Hills is made pleasant by knowing that at about lunchtime we can drop in and have a bite at the Mt Helena Deli.



Usually a pie, home-made with the most delicious flaky pastry and rich meaty interior, or perhaps one of Duane's, made on the premises, jumbo sausage rolls, or a chicken tender or maybe a chicken schnitzel, but always, always, a serve of chips and delicious gravy.



Those chips and gravy just hit the spot - and why wouldn't they? Freshly made and deliciously crisp on the outside with snowy, tender, interiors and lashings of rich gravy - enough to brighten the dullest day.



As well as the usual sausage rolls, sausages, cheese sausages, smoky dogs (hot dog sausages wrapped in pastry) Mt Helena Deli offers a range of quiches, an excellent fish and chips, seafood baskets, the traditional deli luncheon fare of Chick rolls, Cornjacks, crabsticks, potato scallops, prawn cutlets, spring rolls and chicken - mostly the Rosies range, but not always.

In addition they make pizzas in all the usual styles, with fresh choose-yourself ingredients all on view, much like a Subway, who can say I'll have that, and that, and, oh yes, some of that as well.



And if that wasn't enough they do a range of burgers (steak, vegie, ham, fish and hills) - Hills burgers have a 100% beef patty, onions, sauce, tomato, cheese, bacon, egg, pineapple lettuce and mayo. The lettuce is there so that people like me can say 'oh yes, I had my five a day today'.

Beef and chicken kebabs round off a range that really must suit every possible taste for a quick luncheon. Of course, it has a vast range of sodas, flavoured milks, sweets of all kinds and, wonder of wonder a Ben and Jerry's ice cream cabinet with a range of their tempting goodies.

You can eat inside or out under spreading trees at benches or take-away to eat elsewhere.

Open from 6:30am in the morning, I'd avoid it just after Eastern Hills High School next door gets out, but at any other time, I highly recommend Mt Helena Deli.

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