Los Angeles Bagel Culture Gets A Cream Cheese Infusion
Los Angeles bagel culture is pretty much non-existent, but Highland Park deli Tinfoil Liquor & Grocery seeks to switch it up in a big way.
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San Francisco's Wise Sons Deli Uses Every Part Of The Pastrami
Wise Sons Deli in San Francisco's Mission District doesn't let a single ounce of their wood-smoked pastrami go unconsumed. It's as if they were inspired by their grandmothers' kitchen habits, which sounds like a pretty dang authentic deli to us. How authentic, you ask? The phone number listed on their website comes with the caveat: "You…
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At Mile End Deli's Poutine Fest, Foie Gras And General Tso's Takes Center Plate
We heard about it on chef Eli Sussman's Facebook page, but that's what the age of information-sharing is all about. Here's Mile End Deli's stacked and loaded poutine menu for the rest of the week: Chilaquiles Poutine: Crispy beef tongue, red onion, cilantro, scallion, cheese curds, salsa verde, crema Smoked Meat Burger Poutine: Chopped smoked…
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A New Reason To Hit Katz's Deli, Hard: There's A Pop-Up Art Gallery There!
MOAR PASTRAMI! That said, something awesome popped up yesterday in "The Space" next to the iconic Katz's Delicatessen in New York's Lower East Side, a neighborhood famous for great deli food and no shortage of trendy art galleries. How to inject even more trendiness into an art gallery? Simple: pastrami. Or corned beef. Or, frankly,…
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Nifty Deli Trick: The Lamb Sandwich
I am a buyer of cold cuts. I was standing at the deli counter the other day, remembering when the low-carb thing "hit." One way devotees all seemed to be coping was by rolling ham and Swiss or other beloved combinations into sad little cigars, possibly dipping them in mustard before unenthusiastically "digging in." I…
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Our Office Location Is Absolutely Perfect For Lunch. Here's Why...
Ahhh, New York City. Take it in. On our way to the office, we push past the fluorescent parka-wearing Empire State Building guys inexplicably asking us, with our headphones, sunglasses and strategic avoidance of standing-and-staring tourists, if we're going up today. In fact, we are. But not quite in the building itself. Really close, though.…
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Whitefish Salad, The Bagel's Secret Lover
My good friend Henry comes from a famous Upper West Side Jewish deli-appetizing-heaven family. I'll leave you to guess which one. We were discussing bagels the other day, as Upper West Side Jews like ourselves will, when he brought up one of my very, very favorite things to put on a bagel. And I've come…
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Ode To National Bagels And Lox Day
If there's one combination that may even be more classic than peanut butter and jelly on sandwich bread, it's cream cheese and lox on a bagel. Also, bagels with cream cheese and lox were there before peanut butter and jelly ever even set eyes on each other. On this glorious National Bagels and Lox Day,…
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There's Smoked Salmon, And There's Hot Smoked Salmon
What? A piece of cooked fish could possibly trump a perfect slice of raw? Let me elaborate. One day, at Upper West Side appetizing heaven, Zabar's. ::wavy dream lines:: Nah, it doesn't even merit wavy dream lines. I went across the street to buy a gift for my Thanksgiving-hosting aunt and uncle — a pound…
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Fact: Some Sandwiches Are Better On Bialys
You know the saying "the best thing since sliced bread?" I'm really glad we phased it out. It's dumb. I've been trying to phase out sliced bread in general for years. Not just for me, but for humanity — really, for everyone who's ever eaten a sandwich. I move that bread must be sliced no…
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NYC: "Future Of Jewish Food" Talk And Taste Coming Next Month
Last year in Berkeley, Noah and Rae Bernamoff of Brooklyn's Mile End attended the Deli Summit to discuss the direction of Jewish food and deli culture. Since then they've been working on a way to continue the conversation. On October 12th the Bernamoffs host a Shabbat dinner for the NYC Wine and Food Festival —…
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10 Examples Of Corned Beef Sandwich Porn
I recently developed a crush. I saw a dude sitting at a table at Bryant Park taking down the most beautiful corned beef sandwich I think I've ever seen, and now I can't get it out of my head. I probably stared a little longer than was appropriate, then pretended my phone was ringing and…
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Transforming Soup To Sandwich: The P.H.O. Real
Most neighborhoods have one: the mysterious, hidden eatery, beloved by locals and unknown to outsiders. When I first heard rumors of a hidden sandwich shop in New York's East Village, I was struck by two major questions: first, how can anything remain hidden for long in New York City? Second, how do I get there?…
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Don't Leave Home Without...Your Salad
I'm pretty proud of myself. Before I went home last night to pack 90-degree weather clothes for our foray to the Austin Food & Wine Festival, I stopped at the deli and got me a good old-fashioned salad bar salad, dressing on the side. I popped it in my suitcase before I headed to LaGuardia,…
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Other Things Delis Have For Lunch
Food lovers seem to have so much affection for famously delicious deli sandwiches that other equally sacred offerings are being left out of the spotlight. You can't just order a bowl of matzoh ball soup with your pastrami Reuben and assume you've paid homage to the instutition of the Jewish deli. Let's consider the knish,…
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Bagel Sandwiches Are Beasts
Sometimes the absolute best part of a sandwich is what's inside. Other times, the bread is really the highlight. And once in a while, when your level of hunger dictates that you can't choose between the two, there is the bagel sandwich. There are some sandwiches that are suited toward bagels, uncomplicated classics such as…
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Jewish Delis Have Really Awesome Soup
My first thought when I wake up on a Jewish holiday is not "Wow, another Jewish year come and gone," or "Hey, let me ponder the significance of this auspicious day," but rather, "I wonder what kind of soup Aunt Mindy is making and how early will I get to leave work to go eat…
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Don't Admit Dagwood Defeat
It takes a really famous sandwich to carve out a spot in both Webster's Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary, which is why the Dagwood should be part of every sandwich-lover's food heritage. Named for Blondie's husband Dagwood in the long-running comic strip "Blondie," this sandwich celebrates his propensity to pile enormous amounts of food…
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The Italian: No Substitution For A Hero
How many times have you ordered a sandwich only to be disappointed with drab meat occupying the prime real estate between two pieces of bread? Too many to count, we imagine. There are sandwiches out there that make us question humanity's passion for lunch. And there is the Italian hero. My brother deserves a shout-out…
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In Honor Of Canada Day, A Bagel Lesson
There's been a lot of smack talk about bagels lately. New York institution H&H Bagels closed, inspiring a flurry of protest and not a little criticism of the current state of the bagel in New York City. Over in Brooklyn, there are folks importing Montreal bagels directly from the Great White North to sell in…
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