Sweet & Savory

Craving....

Pastrami is not really a West Coast thing. We have great organic fruits and vegetables, excellent weather all year around, and coconutless palm trees, but no good pastrami. Our sole prior experience with pastrami has been from Togo's, which I have to say is nothing compared to the pastrami from Katz's Deli. Unfortunately, there is a distance of two thousand nine hundred and fifty-two miles between my craving and my object of desire (according to Yahoo's driving directions).

A and I went off to NYC in March. Prior to our arrival, we had done some research on places to eat and found Katz's Deli to come highly recommended so it was placed on our list of places to be sure to eat at. The beginning of our search for Katz's Deli was inauspicious as we got off the wrong Metro stop and ended up walking 16 block, of which 4 were in the wrong direction on Houston. Fortunately, the long and laborous meandering trek through the southeastern section of Manhattan was fruitful in the end.

We ordered one pastrami sandwich, not two, to share between the two of us, which turned out to be the right choice as each of those sandwish was HUGE. Don't let the picture fool you. What you see in the picture is only half of the sandwich. Two slices of rye bread with a big stack of thinly sliced pastrami. Yum!! So delicious, juicy, and a good melding of flavor. And that is why I am currently craving a Katz's Deli pastrami sandwich. *sigh*

We also ordered matzo ball soup. This was the first matzo ball soup I've ever had. It was ok though I'm not loving it as much as the pastrami sandwich.

Potato knish ... interesting.

All we were left with were the empty plates, these pictures, and the memories.

I do recall picking up a flier about Katz shipping their pastramis and other assortments of products through the mail for those not fortunate enough to live close by but I've gone and lost that flier! Lucky for me, A let me know that we can still order through their website. :)