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Restaurant · New York City, United States
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A Jewish delicatessen on the corner of East Houston and Ludlow on the Lower East Side, open since 1888, curing and hand-carving its own pastrami.
For the pastrami on rye, which is the reference version, and for a room that has resisted every temptation to become something more fashionable.
Pastrami cured for weeks in house and carved by hand, weekend opening around the clock, and the counter system once you understand it.
Very expensive for a sandwich. Long queues. A confusing ticket system with a penalty for losing it. Heavily touristed.
Any first visit to New York, and anyone who wants to understand what the fuss about pastrami actually is.
You are vegetarian, or you object on principle to queueing for food.
Take a ticket at the door and do not lose it. Go to the counter rather than the table service, tip the carver a couple of dollars and you will get a taste while you wait. Share one sandwich between two.
A la carte. No reservations. Counter service by ticket, table service at the back.
Subway F to Second Avenue, then two minutes on foot. It is on the corner of East Houston Street and Ludlow Street.
The Lower East Side at the Houston Street boundary, an area of bars and boutiques now, with this and a handful of other survivors from when it was not.
An hour, longer if the queue is out the door.
Take a ticket, go to the counter, tip the carver, order pastrami on rye and share it. Ignore the rest of the menu entirely.
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Katz's Delicatessen opens Monday to Thursday from 8:00 am to 11:00 pm, and runs continuously from 8:00 am Friday to 11:00 pm Sunday. It has been on the corner of Houston and Ludlow since 1888. The system is the thing people get wrong. You are handed a ticket at the door, you take it to a carver at the counter, you tip the carver, and you keep the ticket until you leave. Losing it is expensive. The tables at the back…
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