used to get some of the best pizza in the city at the Ferry terminal... but that was 30 years agoIf you’re from New York, nothing equals it. If you’re not from New York, like me...pffffft.
Pizza is really a personal taste, but I prefer what some people call New England or Connecticut pizza, which is also thin crust but they crisp it up.
But I always try to get a good pastrami sandwich when in New York. Best deli's in the country.
Maybe authentic NY food requires a combination of soot & someone spitting in your food while making it...
I used to live 20 blocks from Orwashers and would walk up there on a Saturday morning to get my loaves of bread for my mother to pick up on Sunday. She was a bread fanatic, I was not.
Darling Mimi would not like my choice of bagels: Essa Bagels on 3rd Ave around 54th. Fantastic! And Katz does make excellent pastrami despite what Mimi says.
And there’s nothing wrong with a good old dirty water hot dog (Sabretts) sold on every street corner in NYC.
It often seems to me that it’s impossible anymore to get real pastrami - let alone “good” pastrami - outside New York.
I'll have to head over there. Langer's, located across the street from MacArthur Partk in the Westlake district, has been in business for decades and has seen a lot of businesses in the area come and go.
Pizza is dead on Long Isand. Even in traditionally Italian nabes such as Deer Park (which I have formerly called ‘Little Brooklyn”) I can’t find a slice that isn’t dumbed-down. You can still find a slice here and there on this 20 mi by 80 mi island but the days of just stopping in anywhere are gone. I make it at home now and the crust is more authentic (to New York) than the crap that the “professionals” are churning out. If I had an oven that could get up to 800 degrees I’d toatlly clean their clocks.
used to get some of the best pizza in the city at the Ferry terminal... but that was 30 years ago