Surely there are debates on best pastrami in NY, but this is the one I tried when I visited. Mouth watering goodness!
Pastrami or Beef Tongue. I love a good deli sandwich.
I don’t understand American sandwiches, why even bother with the bread?
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
The bread isn’t a mere mechanical contrivance to keep your hands clean. The bread is chosen to pair with the pastrami.
You have a point but dude throwing everything in the fridge between two thinly sliced pieces of bread is amazingly delicious
At, this point, they have complety ignored a category of food altogether. Soo.
25 bucks well spent. Love their pastrami. Reuben sandwich is also 🤤
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.
Edit: Not that it matters but who downvoted this. I want to know the why?
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.
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.
Check out what’s required to smoke and make brisket for pastrami.
Katzenfutter sandwich?
Katz pastrami is some of the best, imo. I’m sure you can find a small Jewish deli that does a better one off the beaten path, but it’s hard to beat Katz!
I didn’t go to Katz myself. So I can’t compare. I went to 2nd Ave Deli. The owner, a small Jewish guy, came over and chatted with me and my wife a few times, gave us free chocolate sodas, and it was the best pastrami I’ve ever eaten. Would highly recommend it if you want a more relaxing experience.
I’m into brisket, and pastrami is no exception to that. I’ve had a lot of pastrami in my life and I’ve got to say that Katz is fucking killer.
I like to try to replicate things I really enjoy so that I can have it at home or fuse it with other food that I also enjoy. I spent months trying to replicate theirs and couldn’t do it. Unfortunately I think the issue by the 3rd batch was that I couldn’t smoke it at a low enough temperature to get 3 days of smoke on it.
I’m sad that I don’t make it up to NY very often anymore so I haven’t had it in a few years. I’m hoping to head up there next year.
I’m skeptical they actually smoke the meat for 3 days. my understanding is anything past 3-5 hours of smoke is not doing anything for flavor, and you’re better off just steaming or baking at that point. IIRC they do finish with steam even after whatever smoke process they have, which further leads me to believe they aren’t smoking for 3 days.
You’re probably right, but man I sure did try. And I’ve made pastrami since then using more traditional times. I make pretty ok pastrami, but there’s something in Katz’s that I just love.
Their reuben might be the best sandwich I’ve ever had. Just perfect.
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.
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.
Kasseler doesn’t contain seeds.
Kasseler is best served with mashed potatoes and sauerkraut.
At this point why even bother with the bread?
the bread really ties the sandwich together.
That’s just like, uh, your opinion, man.
Shut the FUCK up, Donnie!
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Oh man a good deli rye really ties it together. U Gotta try a sandwich like this. Corned beef sky high will make your heart sing
That tingle in your left arm isn’t singing
Oh its definitly a only-once-in-a-while kinda sandwich.
I went to Katz’ about 15 years ago and their sandwiches were stacked much higher then. Margins get us all.
I came a little
Close your app and pull it back up. You’ll come a bunch the second time
Can confirm.
It’s great if you don’t mind paying $25 for a sandwich
Fuckin gross, man.
There is no debate with the pastrami. It is the best
Try some of their sour pickles while there too.
Oh man dude you’re making me want to take the train down
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.
