Foursquare Los Angeles: Langer’s Deli

We’re very excited about a new Venue Review that appeared on Foursquare Los Angeles for Langer’s Deli:

For over sixty years, Langer’s has been serving up mouth-watering delicatessen favorites to Angelenos and visitors.

Langer’s pastrami is in a league of its own. It is cut thick so you can actually taste the juicy morsels of marinated brisket that have just the right amount of fat lacing the peppery edges. The bread is also spectacular. The edges are oh so ever crisp while the body remains soft, yet hearty enough to support the generous servings of sandwich filling. The rye is subtle as to not overpower the sandwich. The creamy, cold cole slaw adds a crunch with a hint of sweetness, and the swiss cheese lightly chimes in with its nuttiness and slight bitterness. Finally, the Russian Style Dressing: it’s dressing done right.

LA Weekly’s Jonathan Gold: 99 Essential Restaurants

Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant is proud to be a part of the LA Weekly’s latest 99 Essential Restaurants list authored by Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic (and friend of Langer’s) Jonathan Gold.

Langer’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’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….

…Bite into a Langer’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’s wasabi. The fact is inescapable: Langer’s serves the best pastrami sandwich in America.

We are honored and humbled, Jonathan. The entire Langer family thanks you from the bottom of our collective heart.

Click here to read Jonathan’s complete review