{"id":3728,"date":"2009-08-11T17:32:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T00:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costcat.com\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2009-08-11T17:32:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T00:32:39","slug":"diglounge-com-langers-vs-katzs-pastrami-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/2009\/08\/11\/diglounge-com-langers-vs-katzs-pastrami-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"DigLounge.com: Langer&#8217;s vs. Katz&#8217;s Pastrami Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Mitchell&#8217;s new LA-centric portal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diglounge.net\/\" target=\"blank\">DigLounge.net<\/a> has an interesting head-on comparison between Katz&#8217;s Delicatessen of New York and Langer&#8217;s Delicatessen-Restaurant of Los Angeles. It&#8217;s an even-handed approach that takes on all elements of the dining experience: location and transit, environment, dining experience, and of course, food quality.<\/p>\n<p>The competition: pastrami sandwiches. Matt had seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/foodaism\/item\/los_angeles_best_deli_town_20090724\/\" target=\"blank\">Rob Eshman&#8217;s report from the Jewish Journal<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.langersdeli.com\/qsave-the-deliq-by-david-katz\">David Sax&#8217;s new book &#8220;Save The Deli,&#8221;<\/a> and felt compelled to take on David&#8217;s assertion that LA is the new premiere deli town.<\/p>\n<p>The result? We&#8217;re pleased to announce that Matt&#8217;s final decision was &#8211; Langer&#8217;s hot pastrami. Thanks, Matt &#8211; we&#8217;ll see you again soon for another sandwich, we hope!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While it\u2019s a very close race, and Katz\u2019s may win for locale and hours, but I lean towards Langer\u2019s for it\u2019s thin sliced, delectable, melt in your mouth pastrami.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diglounge.net\/food\/east-coast-vs-west-coast-pastrami-showdown\/\" target=\"blank\">Click here to read the complete article at DigLounge.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Mitchell&#8217;s new LA-centric portal DigLounge.net has an interesting head-on comparison between Katz&#8217;s Delicatessen of New York and Langer&#8217;s Delicatessen-Restaurant of Los Angeles. It&#8217;s an even-handed approach that takes on all elements of the dining experience: location and transit, environment, dining experience, and of course, food quality. The competition: pastrami sandwiches. Matt had seen Rob [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,31],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-langers-vs-katzs","tag-pastrami","post_format-post-format-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","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=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}