Bibimbap
and Reubens from one deli? That you have to walk through an office building, past a doorman to find? It's a little confusing, but something of a Korean deli speakeasy, and just a five-minute walk from SEHQ.
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The crew at Serious Eats has loved the idea of Mile End, a self-styled Montreal deli in New York, since it opened just about one year ago. We all love the Montreal-style smoked meat we've eaten at
Schwartz's, and of course our love of pastrami and smoked meat knows no bounds. It's just that every time we have tried Mile End's smoked meat, it hasn't been quite right. But how does their brand-new dinner menu stack up?
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Just like you can't leave Peter Luger without ordering steak, you really can't go to
Ben's Best Delicatessen without biting into a pastrami sandwich. In this latest episode of
Food Curated from documentarian
Liza de Guia, we meet
Jay Parker, the third generation owner of the deli in Rego Park, Queens. He started as a grill boy at age 13, where his job involved making sense of frenetic orders: "four with, three plain, two with mustard, hoo behhh fehhh faster, faster!" (that was pretty much a direct quote from the video). But even years later, the pastrami is still slow-cooked exactly the same way.
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People don't go into Deli King for four pounds of meat, they go to get what their parents got fifty years ago.
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"A lot of places, they just throw everything on there and load it up too much," said Willie, who told me he
used to work at Graham Avenue Meats and only filled in for the owner when the owner was away. "When you do that, you can't taste the different flavors."
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Once upon a time, every borough of New York must have had an awful lot more places like
Liebman's Deli, up in Riverdale in the Bronx. It can't have changed much since it opened in 1953, and it's probably fair to say that it's clientele hasn't changed much either.
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Is Katz's the best deli in New York? (Most of you seem to think yes.) At 8 p.m. tomorrow night (January 6) at 8 p.m. filmmaker Yura Dashevsky (Katz's: That's All) takes the affirmative position against Save the Deli's David...
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All the polls! We've had delis on the brain recently at Serious Eats. So today we're asking you in the People's Choice Awards—what's your favorite all-around New York deli? Cast your vote, and tell us why. As always, if we've...
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[Photo: Robyn Lee] Celebrating the launch of his new book Save the Deli this week, David Sax tells The Feed "his top five "TDF" (to die for) [deli] dishes:" Pastrami at Katz's; chopped liver at 2nd Ave Deli; cabbage...
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[Photographs: Brian Yarvin] Every time I heard an excited comment about the Alpine Deli, somebody was bound to ask what other store could compare with it. The problem, though, is that there are two unrelated shops called the “Alpine...
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