New York City: Katz's Deli, Veniero's

*Post by Mark.

On our final day in New York City, we tried not to think about the long drive home to DC and opted to fill the remaining nooks and crannies of our stomachs with more landmark New York food staples. A classic New York deli stood as one of the lone unchecked boxes.  

Our appetites found their way to E. Houston, where we were handed a ticket upon walking through the door of Katz's Deli. Don't lose that ticket, though, because everything you order in the deli gets written onto it. As you walk out, you pay for everything that your personal 'cutter' has scribbled on it. 

At Katz's they operate on something greater than the honor system. Thinking about conveniently losing your ticket? Malarky! No one's gonna believe that you walked into this delicatessen and didn't get the hots for a pastrami sandwich. 

Just look at this Chicken Salad Sandwich (above). I did some bad, bad things to that incredible sandwich (the restraining order is pending). As good as the Chicken Salad was, the Deli is famous for their Pastrami sandwich (not pictured).  That thick-cut pastrami was like nothing I'd ever tasted between two pieces of bread before. 

Sandwiches seem to run on the expensive side (around ten bucks) but we were happy to hand over our tickets and drop ten bones each for such a solid sandwich.

Our afternoon continued with some window shopping. Shopping for what? Maybe something sweet to wash down the chicken salad?

We found the perfect dessert courses at Veniero's, packed up several sugary treats and kept on the walking trail to see more sights burn off calories from our recent spree of gluttony. 

We perused a small farmer's market and wound up in Tompkins Square Park, where we watched a doggie birthday party (Seriously, I wish I was kidding...) and sat down to dig into some awesome desserts.

We dug into a chocolate-chocolate cannoli (below, right) and a miniature carrot cake (below, left).

And while our New York journey would soon come to a slow halt in the traffic of I-95, we made certain to savor the last few bites of the Strawberry Tart (below). It was, afterall, FiFi's 2nd blowout birthday bash.   

Comments

[miguel]

Yum!

[Angela]

It WAS yum! I'd go back to both the deli and the bakery. Good, affordable eats!