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Monday, December 13, 2010

What about the Katz




Katz's Delicatessen, also known as simply Katz's of New York City is a delicatessen restaurant.
Since its founding in 1888, it has become popular among locals and tourist alike for its pastrami sandwiches and hot dogs both of which are widely considered among New York's best. Also this what the place when the clasic scene from When Sally meet Harry was filmed. 

During WWII Katz's encouraged parents to "send a salami to your boy in the army" which became one of the deli's famous catch phrases,Katz is also well known for its photos of famous people eating in Katz's placed along its wall.
Katz's continues its "Send a salami to your boy in the army" to this day. The deli has arranged special international shipping only for U.S. military addresses and has been a source of gift packages to the troops stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

So i decided to give it a try.the ordering system here is a little insane and confusing. You receive a yellow ticket, and the various servers/cutters then write what you ordered on said ticket. Its a little confusing to figure out where in the line you go for which food, and what to do with the ticket. The servers were all very nice though, and directed my newb self on how it all works.

After that confusing line, im ready to order, but if you are not decide they let you taste a freshly cut slice of pastrami or the other meat, before you buy the sandwich. It literally melts in your mouth. i got his famous pastrami sandwich and a turkey sandwich.  The pastrami...Oh my god.  thick-cut, warm, and perfectly tender and flavorfull meat,it cames with salad, and pickle.



The turkey sandwich was equally good, actually is turkey breast and is tender and juicy,(not what you expect from a turkey breast) not turkey ham like in other places. You can add mustard for better taste experience.

Altough the food is good and you got like almost 1 pounds of meat i found some downside:
a)Expensive & overpriced - The pastrami was hot and fresh, but 17 bucks for a sandwich seems a bit over priced. Turkey one was 15.
b)Fries are charged apart.
c)Did i mention expensive.  In what other place you can have two sandwich, fries and soda and spend around $45 bucks? in Katz :).

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