Food critic Jonathan Gold of the LA Weekly published a recommendation of Langer’s in this week’s issue depicted above.
Jonathan puts it best:
The fact is inescapable: Langer’s serves the best pastrami sandwich in America
Note that Langer’s is actually at the Westlake Station of the Metro RED Line; the Blue line goes to Long Beach, far away from the delicious taste of Langer’s!
Langer’s is proud to announce our inclusion in Jonathan Gold’s “99 Essential LA Restaurants” list for 2009, now appearing here in the current issue of the LA Weekly (pick it up!). Here’s a sampling of Jonathan’s very kind words for our pastrami:
The late Al Langer was among the last of the great deli men, a guy who could talk to you about sandwiches until your ears fell off but more importantly, knew the contours of a pastrami the way a great sushi chef does a side of tuna. In the course of the half-block walk from the Alvarado Blue Line station to his delicatessen, you smell the food from a half-dozen Central American countries, pass within sight of Mexican street murals, and are offered the opportunity to buy a counterfeit green card. Within the deli itself, run by his son Norm, you may wait for a table with customers speaking every language but Yiddish.
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; thickly 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, and you’ll know the inescapable fact: Langer’s serves the best pastrami sandwich in America.
The LA Weekly’s famed food critic Jonathan Gold has named Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant one of LA’s 99 Essential Restaurants:
…bite into a Langer’s pastrami sandwich: thick slices of hand-sliced meat, 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…
Click here to read the entire article.
Thank you, LA Weekly and thank you, Jonathan!
Our favorite restaurant critic (and everyone else’s, for that matter), Jonathan Gold of the LA Weekly, recently answered reader mail with a wonderful metaphor for Langer’s:
My instinct, of course, is to point you toward Langer’s, which is the Lourdes of Jewish deli meats. Langer’s corned beef is steamed to exquisite tenderness, and the crunchy-edged seeded rye bread is superb. Langer’s knows from Russian dressing and is if anything rather overgenerous with the sauerkraut. I have long sworn fealty to what I have come to know as Old Number 44, although to tell the truth, I prefer the nippy cheese to the traditional slice of Swiss. (A Reuben is decidedly not kosher.)
You can read the entire post here at the LAWeekly.com site.
Thank you, as always, Jonathan, for your support – from the Langer’s family.
Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant has been named by Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold as one of the “99 Essential LA Restaurants”! We are so proud and so thankful to Jonathan and the LA Weekly, where his column runs, for this great honor. Make sure you click here to visit the complete article at LA Weekly.com, but here’s an excerpt from Jonathan that we particularly love:
…bite into a Langer’s pastrami sandwich: thick slices of hand-sliced meat, 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…
Visit Jonathan’s article here. Thank you, Jonathan and LA Weekly!
Click here to check out the Langer’s review in the LA Weekly:
The best drive-thru food in Los Angeles? … Why settle for a hamburger when you can have Langer’s pastrami?
Plus, make sure you check out the Food section on LAWeekly.com for lots of great restaurant information, featuring Jonathan Gold.