Justin Bolois has written a fantastic article for FirstWeFeast.com entitled “A Complete guide to the Jewish Delis of Los Angeles.” We’re thrilled that Langer’s Deli was included, along with imagery of meat cutting and our pastrami steamer, plus interview quotes with Norm Langer.Continue reading
Fantasy Football fans – check out our good friend Robyn Remick’s ESPN podcast “Fantasy Football for Beginners” at the link below – this edition brought to you by Langer’s Delicatessen in Los Angeles – thank you for the shout-out, Robyn!
Thanks so much to blogger Anne Stedman Herwick for her great notice about Langer’s Deli on her Chic Mama LA blog – check it out and browse around, it’s a terrific site, particularly for those with small kids here in the Southland.
All of us at Langer’s are thrilled with the photo essay by the incomparable Elizabeth Daniels done for Eater.com on “Langer’s Deli on a typical Wednesday at 1PM”…check it out and see if you can find the talented Seth Rogen in one of the shots enjoying our pastrami.
Thank you, Eater.com and Elizabeth – make sure you sign up for Eater’s newsletter, it’s fantastic.
All of us at Langer’s Deli extend our sincere condolences to the family of Art Ginsburg, owner of Art’s Deli in Studio City. A Los Angeles deli legend, Art passed away yesterday, July 24, 2013.
Our thoughts go out to his wife Sandy, his son Harold, and daughters Roberta and Beverly, their spouses and grandchildren.
– The Langer Family
We’re excited about being named to LAist’s “12 Best Classic Los Angeles Restaurants” – along with Cole’s, Philippe’s, Canter’s, Musso & Frank’s, and many other awesome places. Thank you to the editors of LAist.com for this great notice!
Langer’s Deli has been named as one of the top 10 deli and kid-friendly restaurants in Los Angeles by GAYOT.com – we even now have crayons and coloring placemats for our young visitors! See you and your kids soon!
Langer’s Deli is thrilled to have been named to Eater.com’s 38 Essential Los Angeles Restaurants list (again, this time for July 2013), at #23 (why not #19?). Check it out and enjoy the entire list – we’re in some amazing company!
Gary Friedman of the Los Angeles Times contributed a photo essay and article to the Framework column which appears at LATimes.com, focused on his friendship with now-former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Friedman, one of the Times’ top photographers, spent one of the mayor’s final days in office as he visited various friends and constituents across our city, thanking them for two terms’ worth of support, including a stop at Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant:
The series of quick stops continued. At Langer’s Delicatessen, he shared a quiet conversation with owner Norm Langer.
Click here to read the complete article – it’s really a good look at a mayor’s final days in office.
And thank you, Mayor Villaraigosa, for taking the time to meet with us. – The Langers
KCET has published a great essay by Colin Marshall on the MacArthur Park area – it’s really beautifully written, capturing the essence of our neighborhood in 2013, and an important addition to his book-in-progress, “A Los Angeles Primer: Mastering the Stateless City.” Here’s a sampling of the quality of his writing:
Still, whatever problems MacArthur Park had accumulated by the eighties, life there beat life in a war-torn Central American republic. The immigrants of that era must certainly have felt the same way as they turned up to re-create the best of the small, troubled countries they’d fled. The occasional Korean proprietor aside, its malls, stalls, and swap meets look, sound, and feel indistinguishable from those I’ve experienced in Latin America. With the sight of wall-to-wall activewear, luggage, hair tonics, square-toed shoes, and curative devotional so central to my experience of the neighborhood, I can hardly imagine it any other way.
But right there on the corner of Seventh and Alvarado, a living relic of of an entirely different time has stood since 1947: Langer’s Delicatessen, home of the only hot pastrami sandwich West and East Coast food critics can agree on. And only thanks to the return of rail do we have even it. The Red Line subway, locally dubbed the “Pastrami Express”, entered service in 1993, immediately bringing back the hungry workers who had otherwise long since stopped going near the place. Sitting down for a meal at Langer’s, its interior so immaculately preserved that almost resembles a theme park’s simulacrum of lunchtime postwar urban America, takes you back to a time when, if the park still had so many fire-and-brimstone preachers, then at least they probably didn’t bring loudspeakers.
Thank you, Colin! – The Langers