CouchPotatoCook.com: Langer’s Deli Review

Our new friend and prominent food blogger Mallory Carra just published an extensive review of items from our menu. Mallory participated in a recent food shoot by Eric Shin and TN of Dishnomics.com, a pre-launch food site that we will be telling you more about soon.

In the meantime, enjoy Mallory’s coverage here. For example, here’s her take on our famous #19:

The myth, the legend, the sandwich. This is a must-try for pastrami lovers and, if pastrami isn’t your thing, well, get ready to fall in love because the No. 19 will make you fall in love with the best meat in town. Perfectly balanced. Delicious coleslaw. Glorious full-flavored pastrami. Are you getting hungry? Because I sure am. Once you have this sandwich, you’ll want it again and again.

Read the complete article here. Thank you, Mallory, Eric and TN! – The Langers

USC Daily Trojan: LA’s Home – Langer’s Delicatessen

Langer’s Delicatessen would like to send huge thanks to Athanasius Georgy of the USC Daily Trojan for his homage to Langer’s Deli:

“…my personal favorite is Langer’s Deli. It’s a classic. It’s the West Coast’s Katz, but better. It attracts people from all walks of life. Be it 9-5-ers, professional athletes, corporate executives, students, elderly, locals or tourists, everyone knows Langer’s and it never ceases to satisfy.”

Check it out here – thank you, Athanasius! – the Langers

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin: A Fulfilling Trip to Classic Langer’s Deli

Trevor Summons of the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin recently paid a visit to Langer’s Deli with his grandson, and he had a wonderful time:

The menu is quite large and yet pretty easy to figure out. The regular favorite meals are numbered, with the most popular being No. 19. It’s the hot pastrami meal, with Swiss cheese and coleslaw on toasted rye bread. I chose it without the slaw ….

My grandson went for a roast beef and he was hard pressed to finish it.

Read the complete article here. Thank you, Trevor!

FamilyVacationHub.com: 10 Los Angeles Classic Restaurants

FamilyVacationHub.com has assembled a great list of ten LA-area classic restaurants that are family-friendly locations, and they lead off with Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant:

The reason Langer’s has made it all these years, is its delicious deli food, which is not easy to come by in Los Angeles. In my honest opinion, I think their Pastrami sandwich is the best I have ever had and I grew up on Deli food. The Pastrami is very tender and their twice baked rye bread is crunchy on the crust and soft as can be on the bread. If you are not a purist (pastrami and deli mustard), they have a fantastic Pastrami sandwich (#19) with Cole Slaw, Swiss cheese and Russian style dressing. Add in a side of Potato Pancakes and a Cream Soda and you are set. Langer’s menu offers up a large variety of traditional Delicatessen fare, so everyone in the family should find something to their liking.

Read the complete article here.

UnorthodoxFoodie.com: Langer’s Luscious #19

Kimberly Nichols, who runs the terrific food blog UnorthodoxFoodie.com, penned this review of our famous #19 hot pastrami sandwich back in December of 2013, but we just discovered it on Twitter (where you can follow us here). It’s fantastic writing! Click through to check it all out, but here’s a sample:

If ever there were a place to belly up to the bar, it was here, where old-fashioned and generously padded, tufted brown faux-leather seats swiveled with a direct view into the glass enclosed counters revealing cooks in white smocks and paper hats carving up smoking hot roasts of pastrami and corned beef, smoke curling up and away into the ethers where cans of tuna, sardines and matzo flour sat aligned on wooden shelves. There are no glass displays of overstuffed baked goods or large rows of bread loaves or cutesy, framed sayings on the walls. It’s a simple joint where people come for that plate of bread and meat accentuated with none other than a simple pickle slice, enough to fuel them up on their way from one place to another. An institution serving lunch to the common man one rapid forkful at a time.

Didn’t we say it was amazing writing?! Click here to read the entire piece. Thank you, Kimberly! Please say hello next time you are in! – The Langers

El Niño Angeleno: Lunch at Langer’s Deli

Gianpiero Leone of El Niño Angeleno had a great post about visiting Langer’s recently on his well-written blog:

I had lunch today at the famous Langer’s Deli in MacArthur Park. A Los Angeles institution established in 1947 by Mr. Al Langer, Langer’s Deli serves up some of the best eats in the city and if you are from the east coast you surely will not be disappointed.

 

TravelandLeisure.com: Best Restaurants in Los Angeles

TravelandLeisure.com, a division of American Express Publishing, has released their “Best Restaurants in Los Angeles” listing – running through every letter in the alphabet (so yep, 26 entries, or 5 pages of web reading – but worth it!). Every selection was interesting and thoughtful – and some were fun while others were obscure enough to make you think, “Hmmm, maybe i don’t know Los Angeles cuisine that well!”

We’re excited that Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant made the listing for D – as in “Deli”:

Like vintage Buicks and aging divas, old delicatessens preserve themselves well in the southern California sunshine. Canter’s, Nate ’n Al, Greenblatt’s: all unimpeachable specimens. But the sine qua non will always be 63-year-old Langer’s (pastrami sandwich $13), source of the finest pastrami this side of the Hudson. The meat—smoky around the edges, Kobe-tender, and bursting with beefy juice—requires not a smidge of seasoning, though mustard comes standard. And the rye…Good Lord, the rye: par-baked daily at Bea’s Bakery, in Tarzana, then finished in-house till it’s plush in the center but crisp at the crust. Finally there’s the setting: brass chandeliers on a dropped-panel ceiling; a malt machine; a case of cakes the size of truck wheels. Dare you? Yes. Yes, you do.

Click here to read the complete article at TravelandLeisure.com

MSN.com: 15 Essential Sandwiches

Microsoft megaportal MSN.com has published a great new story on “15 Essential Sandwiches,” and Langer’s hot pastrami is fortunate enough to be included in the recount:

Pastrami reigns coastal. In Los Angeles, Langer’s is king, where spicy, peppery beef owes its mythic tenderness to a long stint in the steamer. The result ends up on a number of sandwiches, but No. 19 — pastrami topped with Swiss, coleslaw and Russian dressing on double-baked rye — is the gold standard for Jewish delicacies in L.A.

Click here to read the complete article