{"id":3416,"date":"2010-11-11T18:13:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T02:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costcat.com\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2010-11-11T18:13:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T02:13:10","slug":"la-weeklys-jonathan-gold-99-essential-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/2010\/11\/11\/la-weeklys-jonathan-gold-99-essential-restaurants\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Weekly&#8217;s Jonathan Gold: 99 Essential Restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Langer&#8217;s Delicatessen-Restaurant is proud to be a part of the LA Weekly&#8217;s latest <em>99 Essential Restaurants<\/em> list authored by Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic (and friend of Langer&#8217;s) Jonathan Gold.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Langer&#8217;s has finally become the institution it deserved to be all along: patronized by big shots, home to a radio show, beloved by the national food press, occupying a corner renamed Langer&#8217;s Square. It has become common knowledge that the late Al Langer was among the last of the great deli men, a guy who traced the contours of a properly steamed pastrami the way a great sushi chef does a fresh yellowtail&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Bite into a Langer&#8217;s pastrami sandwich: thick slices of hand-sliced beef, glistening with peppery fat, as dense and as smoky as Texas barbecue; thick-cut seeded corn rye, hot, crisp-crusted and soft inside, with a slightly sour tang that helps tame the richness of the meat; a dab of yellow mustard as important to the whole as a sushi master&#8217;s wasabi. The fact is inescapable: Langer&#8217;s serves the best pastrami sandwich in America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We are honored and humbled, Jonathan. The entire Langer family thanks you from the bottom of our collective heart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/2010-11-11\/eat-drink\/a-movable-beast-l-a-weekly-s-99-essential-restaurants\/14\/\" target=\"blank\">Click here to read Jonathan&#8217;s complete review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Langer&#8217;s Delicatessen-Restaurant is proud to be a part of the LA Weekly&#8217;s latest 99 Essential Restaurants list authored by Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic (and friend of Langer&#8217;s) Jonathan Gold. Langer&#8217;s has finally become the institution it deserved to be all along: patronized by big shots, home to a radio show, beloved by the national food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-la-weekly"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","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=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}