{"id":3723,"date":"2009-08-28T17:28:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T00:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costcat.com\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2009-08-28T17:28:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T00:28:50","slug":"la-weekly-langers-makes-golds-99-essential-la-restaurants-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/2009\/08\/28\/la-weekly-langers-makes-golds-99-essential-la-restaurants-list\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Weekly: Langer’s Makes Gold’s 99 Essential LA Restaurants List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Langer’s is proud to announce our inclusion in Jonathan Gold’s “99 Essential LA Restaurants” list for 2009, now appearing here in the current issue of the LA Weekly (pick it up!).<\/a> Here’s a sampling of Jonathan’s very kind words for our pastrami:<\/p>\n

The late Al Langer was among the last of the great deli men, a guy who could talk to you about sandwiches until your ears fell off but more importantly, knew the contours of a pastrami the way a great sushi chef does a side of tuna. In the course of the half-block walk from the Alvarado Blue Line station to his delicatessen, you smell the food from a half-dozen Central American countries, pass within sight of Mexican street murals, and are offered the opportunity to buy a counterfeit green card. Within the deli itself, run by his son Norm, you may wait for a table with customers speaking every language but Yiddish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bite into a Langer\u2019s pastrami sandwich: thick slices of hand-sliced beef, glistening with peppery fat, as dense and as smoky as Texas barbecue; thickly 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\u2019s wasabi, and you\u2019ll know the inescapable fact: Langer\u2019s serves the best pastrami sandwich in America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the complete article in the LA Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Langer’s is proud to announce our inclusion in Jonathan Gold’s “99 Essential LA Restaurants” list for 2009, now appearing here in the current issue of the LA Weekly (pick it up!). Here’s a sampling of Jonathan’s very kind words for our pastrami: The late Al Langer was among the last of the great deli men, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[46,22,49,31],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-jonathan-gold","tag-la-weekly","tag-lists","tag-pastrami"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","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=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}