[NautiNurse]

I went to the number one pastrami place in the world and I was very disappointed.

That would be the former Carnegie Deli. RIP.

[ifinnegan]

I went to the number one pastrami place in the world and I was very disappointed.

That would be the former Carnegie Deli. RIP.

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That would've been fun to go to.

I was talking about Schwartz's in Montreal.

[1Old Pro]

That would be the former Carnegie Deli. RIP.

Closest I came was the one at the Mirage in Vegas, which also closed.

[ETCM]

That would be the former Carnegie Deli. RIP.

I miss Carnegie's. They closed their restaurants, but they still sell their famous pastrami and corned beef to the public and a few restaurants (though I haven't found any).

As for pastrami vs corned beef, at Carnegie's you didn't have to choose. The "Woody Allen" was one of their top sellers with half and half pastrami and corned beef. Here in San Diego, good pastrami (or even a really good deli) is almost impossible to find. And nobody here stacks the meat up like the NY style delis. You get 5 or 6 oz of meat instead of north of a pound. At least in NY, that $20 sandwich is good for two or three meals.

[Interesting Times]

In the late 1980s, Carnegie Deli opened a branch in a hotel in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia, right across the street from the software company where I worked. The quality and quantity of the food was incredible - the sandwiches were 5 inches high. Each table included a big jar of pickled vegetables that you could eat for free. A lunch trip was good for several meals. My girlfriend and I would often pick up, say, a chopped liver and a pastrami sandwich on a Friday and subsist on them all weekend. We were heartbroken when they closed down.