TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: #NewYork Restaurant: Pictures Katz Delicatessen Brief Review

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

#NewYork Restaurant: Pictures Katz Delicatessen Brief Review

We went to Katz Delicatessen in New York because it's supposedly world-famous.

It was incredibly crowded and the food wasn't that great. They have this crazy system of handing out numbers to people, then collecting them after you've paid. A member of our party didn't have a number, which caused quite a stir. For a rare moment my husband lost his temper and yelled, "What the h--- does it matter!"

Earlier, we had ordered a pastrami sandwich and an assorted meat platter that came with slices of bread and a side dish of kosher pickles.

I don't think it was unreasonable to expect the pastrami sandwich to be more than two pieces of bread with pastrami in the middle, but that was what we got. So we sat there for a moment, stupidly staring at that sorry-looking sandwich and our meat platter and sliced bread.

We had better pastrami sandwiches the next day from a normal deli in New York's Eastside. And the pastrami sandwich we get at Los Angeles' Langer's http://www.langersdeli.com/ is infinitely better.

Conclusion: Don't waste your precious time standing in that long line to get into Katz in New York.

Tags: #restaurant #review, #food #travel

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Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.