DiscoverLosAngeles.com’s DineLA initiative (promoting Los Angeles restaurants of all types to locals as well as tourists) has a terrific website with regularly added content – if you’re into food, bookmark it!

A new piece is entitled “Old School, New School,” by Joshua Lurie, and features iconic sandwiches and dishes compared to more haute cuisine takes on them. Langer’s Deli makes the article with our classic Pastrami Reuben, and it’s paired with a very different take on the Reuben, from Raphael in Studio City. All the food looks terrific, so click on over and check it out now!

Thanks, dineLA and DiscoverLosAngeles.com, for including us!

Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky’s news blog has an interesting new story about the potential impact on businesses along the new Expo Line, slated to open in April-May of this year. The story includes a comparison to the impact the Red Line opening in 1994 had on Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant:

They dubbed it the Pastrami Express. When the Red Line subway came to Langer’s MacArthur Park neighborhood in 1994, offering a convenient way for downtown workers to get their pastrami-on-rye fix, it touched off a transit-driven boom for the legendary delicatessen, family-owned since 1947.

After an inaugural weekend of free rides on the new subway, deli owner Norm Langer showed up Monday and was met with a miraculous sight: customers, by the hundreds.

“I had 500 people on a waiting list,” he recalled. It was a welcome turnaround for a business suffering at the time from demographic shifts and high crime in the neighborhood. “My light at the end of the tunnel was the Red Line,” he said. “If it didn’t open, we would have closed.”

Today, business is better than ever in a revitalized neighborhood, Langer said, continuing to marvel at the Red Line effect. “It’s phenomenal. And it gets better over the years because there are more lines that tie into it. We’ve had a great resurgence of our customer base because of it.”

Click here to read the complete article

Lifestyle blog PacificRimShots.com’s co-author Steve recently visited Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant for the first time, and had our delicious #19 – with a twist:

A picture is worth a thousand words, the Langer’s #19 with a chocolate malt… sandwich paradise! That’s pastrami on rye, swiss cheese, cole slaw and Russian dressing. This stuff just melts in your mouth and for my money, it’s even better than Katz’s in NYC. And the chocolate malt? It’s the real thing, unchanged since 1947 when Langer’s opened.

It’s a great mini-review of his experience at our deli. Click here to read the complete article. And thank you, Steve, for visiting us!