{"id":10312,"date":"2022-07-08T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/?p=10312"},"modified":"2025-11-09T07:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:01:43","slug":"opentable-11-quintessential-los-angeles-restaurant-dishes-you-must-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/2022\/07\/08\/opentable-11-quintessential-los-angeles-restaurant-dishes-you-must-try\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenTable: 11 Quintessential Los Angeles Restaurant Dishes You Must Try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Late writer Nora Ephron once\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2021\/09\/06\/magazine20020819a-sandwich\">described<\/a> Langer\u2019s No. 19 special as \u201cthe finest hot pastrami sandwich in the world.\u201d It includes tender, hand-sliced pastrami, coleslaw, Russian dressing, and Swiss cheese wedged between warm, crunchy rye bread. The result is a sandwich that\u2019s smoky, tangy, crispy, and soft all at once. Langer\u2019s has sold more than seven million pounds of pastrami since Al Langer opened the deli in 1947. What makes the meat so special is its preparation: Langer\u2019s sources its meat from a deli in Burbank; the cured beef is then steamed for nearly three hours at Langer\u2019s, ensuring the tenderness needed to slice it by hand. Much of Langer\u2019s interior remains the same as it did when it opened in Westlake: The vinyl brown booths and padded black bar stools still seat both residents and tourists who travel to get a taste of the famed sandwich. Following Langer\u2019s death in 2007, his son Norm Langer has been leading the family business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opentable.com\/blog\/los-angeles-essential-dishes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Full article.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Late writer Nora Ephron once\u00a0described Langer\u2019s No. 19 special as \u201cthe finest hot pastrami sandwich in the world.\u201d It includes tender, hand-sliced pastrami, coleslaw, Russian dressing, and Swiss cheese wedged between warm, crunchy rye bread. The result is a sandwich that\u2019s smoky, tangy, crispy, and soft all at once. Langer\u2019s has sold more than seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10313,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions\/10313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}