Food travel blog TNT Adventures recently visited Langer’s Delicatessen and enjoyed a delicious #19 sandwich:
The outer crust of the rye bread is crispy while the inner part of the bread is quite soft. I love sinking my teeth into the generous portion of the smokey flavored pastrami and swiss cheese. I would think the cole slaw would come as a side, but piled atop of the pastrami just completes this delicious sandwich altogether. Every bite is scrumptious!
Norm Langer visited the Carmax studios of 710 ESPN AM today to guest-judge the Langer’s Lunch High Noon Showdown with Andrew Siciliano and Laker legend Mychal Thompson. But there was an even bigger reason for Norm’s visit – the debut of the Langer’s High Noon Showdown Tailgate Special – a feast of Langer’s food that’s enough to serve eight hungry tailgate fans for a great value price of only $99.95.
As Norm explained, because college football is so popular in Los Angeles, it makes total sense for Langer’s to offer something special for ESPN listeners and college football fans across Southern California. Just order by 3PM the day before you’d like to pick it up, and we’ll have it ready for you. (Note, no substitutions, thank you!)
Here are some great photos from the big day – thank you, Andrew, Mychal, producer Drew Belzer, and everyone at 710 ESPN. We are proud to be associated with you all.
Jason and Erin E. Barrett recently visited Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant and the results are nothing short of amazing. The reason, you see, is that Jason is a professional photographer, and Erin is a professional writer. The combination is nothing short of compelling:
Now, I am not a food critic, nor am I a professional blogger on the topic of food, but I will do my best to describe the experience. I am not a huge fan of the cured meats (bacon excluded), but for this particular sandwich, I will make an exception. In the past, I have had pastrami that was too fatty, too dry, and just too much. But this was a special brand of pastrami, my friends. The meat itself was a gorgeous red wine color, with a dark, almost black crust on the outside. The chefs were generous, but there wasn’t too much meat, as so often is the case with pastrami sandwiches. On top of the hot pastrami rested the coleslaw (just juicy enough), the dressing, and the cheese. All of these ingredients were piled high, but well contained in the most perfect rye bread I have ever eaten. The crusts were perfectly crisp, but the center of the bread remained soft and pliable, so that when you picked up the sandwich, the bread seemed to form around the ingredients inside, creating a kind of bread cage for all the goodness within.
Yep, it’s that good. Click here to read the entire essay and view Jason’s awesome imagery of the visit
The Huffington Post has released a list of the top delis in Los Angeles, and Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant is number one on the list. Here’s their introduction to the slideshow-article:
Last year, a book called “Save the Deli” by David Sax made a bold claim: “Brace yourself New York, because what I am about to write is definitely going to piss a lot of you off, but it needs to be said: Los Angeles has become America’s premier deli city.” And why not? Sax argues that while New York delis have degenerated into tourist traps, ours are “functioning” and “relevant” staples in our restaurant landscape. High five, LA! Let’s keep our matzo ball soup schmaltzy and our pastrami piled high. Here’s a round up of the best delis this city has to offer.
Click here to see all of their picks for best delis in Los Angeles
The Minty has published an interesting take on Langer’s pastrami from the perspective of someone trying to transition away from dairy products:
This week I was telling someone about my love for pastrami. Like most Angelenos, I love Langer’s. However, I have been trying to give up dairy. I continue to eat dairy sporadically but if I can skip it, I do.
Click here to read the complete transition to Langer’s no. 1
The writers of Refined Palate visited Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant again this past week, with another great eating experience immortalized in words and imagery:
#19, very famous…after 39 years of eating this sandwich I’m still impressed with the wonderful rye bread [I bought a loaf of bread and a quart of soup for tomorrow night]. The hand carved pastrami has a layer of swiss cheese with a generous portion of delicious slaw and topped with Russian Dressing.
Click here to read the complete story and see all the images
Every so often one of those really great, first-time-at-Langer’s stories comes along that just makes us smile. And so today, here we have one, from MidtownLunch.com, by Zach Brooks, entitled “My Sandwich World Has Been Turned Upside Down.” Here’s just the intro to set the tone:
I’m embarrassed to admit it, but before last week I had never been to Langer’s. As a Miami jew (lower case, because I’m a bad jew who loves pork way too much), whose parents were born in New York, who spent his his childhood eating at Wolfie’s (and the lesser known, kind of terrible, Pumpernickel’s), and the past 4 1/2 years living in NYC, you’d think I would have gone sooner. Like maybe the first week I moved here. Like, maybe right from the airport. Despite the pedigree, I’m no deli expert. But I am a fat man, and as such have nothing but love for pastrami and corned beef and tongue, on good rye bread, with a bit of mustard. How could I not?
Of course, you must read the entire story. Click here now to read the complete, funny and very informative (with an emphasis on chopped liver!) story by Zach
Zach, make sure you introduce yourself next time you visit us!
LA Weekly’s food critic Noah Galuten (writing in the always-interesting Squid Ink food blog) has a great new article up entitled “Langer’s Deli: Pastrami, Yes, But What Else?” Good question! And so Noah and his friends paid a visit to Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant, and came up with a variety of great items to try that were not-pastrami in nature:
With rye bread as good as it is at Langer’s, isn’t it safe to assume that they can fashion some other good sandwiches as well? We’ve often wondered ourselves, but could never quite muster the courage to veer from such assured greatness. In light of this, we gathered a group of five other hungry men, and took over the corner of Langer’s Deli to find out what some of the rest of the menu had in store for us. Though to be fair, we couldn’t prevent ourselves from ordering a few pastrami sandwiches too.
Click here to read the complete story at LAWeekly.com
Thanks, Noah! Make sure you say hello next time you visit!
Jeff of SCVTalk.com accompanied Langer’s Delicatessen friend Lady Ducayne on their recent visit to Langer’s, and he chronicles the event with his own take on the eventful day of food and fun.
Lady Ducayne and her entourage made a pilgrimage from her Santa Clarita Valley environs to downtown Los Angeles by Metrolink and Metro Subway, with an all-important Saturday visit to Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant. The results were very enjoyable, we’re glad to report, but you must view and read the photo essay yourself at LD’s terrific food / travel blog.
