Surely there are debates on best pastrami in NY, but this is the one I tried when I visited. Mouth watering goodness!
Are they still popular as ever? When I visited in 2016 I was super impressed by the throughput their kitchen maintains.
Pastrami or Beef Tongue. I love a good deli sandwich.
Fuckin gross, man.
25 bucks well spent. Love their pastrami. Reuben sandwich is also 🤤
Idk man, but using different bread(this one really looks like the German “Kasseler” bread) would probably make it better. Kasseler is fine, but there are so much better bread variants.
It’s rye bread with carraway.
Kasseler is best served with mashed potatoes and sauerkraut.
Having never had kasseler bread, I can’t really comment on the similarities, but after googling around a little it’s probably in the same ballpark. These sort of deli sandwiches are usually served on (what we call in America anyway) “Jewish rye” bread. Just sort of a soft, light rye bread, often with caraway seeds in it (personally I tend to think of the seeds as sort of the defining feature of a Jewish rye) and I couldn’t find any mention of kasseler having caraway, but I also didn’t exactly do an exhaustive search for recipes.
I don’t understand American sandwiches, why even bother with the bread?
This is like a $30 sandwich from one of the most famous delis in the country. I would not describe this as a typical American sandwich.
The bread isn’t a mere mechanical contrivance to keep your hands clean. The bread is chosen to pair with the pastrami.
The bread primarily exists to keep your hands dry when you handle the food.
The bread around here adds to the whole
See, for that logic to hold up you gotta have quality bread, but we’re talking about America here.
I lived close to Germany my whole life, I have huge standards
You have a point but dude throwing everything in the fridge between two thinly sliced pieces of bread is amazingly delicious
Katzenfutter sandwich?
If you’re the type of person to give their cat a $30 sandwhich, I’m afraid there’s a place in line reserved for you at the guillotine.
If they don’t have normal cat food, they shall just give the cat 30€ cat food instead!
Reminds me of this girl’s vagina I dated way back when.
Poor execution, poor taste. Ahem…
I should call her
Far from poor taste.
It’s great if you don’t mind paying $25 for a sandwich
Try some of their sour pickles while there too.
I can’t be the only one who thinks this is visually disgusting right? It looks like completely uncooked meat. Why not just go down to the farm and slaughter one yourself and just eat it right there off of the ground?
It’s cured, slow-smoked (to an internal temp of 203 °F, much higher than what would be considered “well done” for steak), and then steamed. It’s literally the most cooked a piece of meat can possibly be without becoming inedible.
On top of that, it’s a cheap, tough cut of meat that only becomes delicious because of the complicated and laborious prep. When you buy a sandwich like that (which is pretty expensive), the extensive cooking process is most of what you’re paying for.
Eh, disgusting is subjective, but there’s never only one person with a given opinion, particularly when it comes to food.
Uncooked meat can actually be delicious though, so it’s kind of a double subjective lol.
While it isn’t anything I have regularly, I tend to favor some steal cuts “blue”, which is essentially uncooked at all in the middle. Steak tartare is uncooked. Sashimi exists, and is amazing. Then there’s stuff like ceviche that’s not truly raw, but isn’t cooked with heat.
The list of raw meat foods could keep going, it’s not an uncommon thing.
Beyond that, you can’t really go by photographs for whether or not something actually matches visually. Raw meat and cured meats often do look similar in color, but not in texture. Not that color really matches, but it’s usually close enough to fool the eye depending on lighting and the film/sensor.
Again though, whether or not a pile of raw meat would be disgusting is indeed something that you’ll find plenty of people on either side of. And you’d likely find people that see this picture and think it looks raw, at least at first glance (it really doesn’t once you pay attention to the variations in color across the slices).
raw kibbi plate at lebanese deli set off wires in my brain. shit is addicting
I also think it looks that way, but am not so foolish as to believe it is actually raw meat. Your opinion is fine, but the last sentence is unnecessary
It’s just you, sorry.
can’t be the only one who thinks this is visually disgusting right
it looks visually delicious. pastrami is cured, not cooked. like other cured meats, it doesn’t turn brown in the process
pastrami is cured and cooked for hours and hours to tenderize. the curing process turns the meat bright red even after it cooks.
I believe Katz does a 2-4 week salt cure, then they smoke it. That’s where the color comes from.
the color mostly comes from the pink curing salt. Same with corned beef.
Corned beef, rice, shallots warm my soul. Love when my spouse makes it for me.
Oh man dude you’re making me want to take the train down
There is no debate with the pastrami. It is the best
I came a little
Close your app and pull it back up. You’ll come a bunch the second time
Can confirm.
would you like anything else with that?
Yes, a loaf of bread and some friends.
It’s like a cow with a cracker on either side.
Once you’ve had their pastrami you wouldn’t be sharing.
I could never eat all that. I tend to eat until I’m full then I stop. No need to stuff yourself so much you need a nap.
This place is known for both their price and portion size. I generally get two meals out of a single $30 sandwich.
Regardless of how popular the place is with tourists, it is still a classic.
And, bonus: if the line is too long you can just go to Russ and Daughters a block away and grab a pastrami lox bagel (see attached).
$30 sandwich
WTF are you insane?!?!
A large steak sandwich that takes a full day to prepare. Yes.
It’s NYC.
A sandwich for £22 is crazy. No matter how big it is. I could eat Monday to Friday for that.
To each their own and they do look lovely, I’m just not a food guy. I eat else I die is my relationship with food.
Check out what’s required to smoke and make brisket for pastrami.
It’s NYC. The most expensive place in the USA (besides San Francisco)
That’s true. I do wonder what the average price for a sandwich is in NYC. I’m also curious if London has sandwich’s priced like this.
I’m not sure. Major cities are absurdly expensive though. $30 for a sandwich is insane I agree. I’m just not surprised because it’s NYC ha.