(In fact, I've never even been to Langer's, which I think is a perfectly fine way to live, if you ask me. Still, I feel married to the idea of pastrami, which I haven't had in over a year, maybe even two.
Across from me, two men who clearly work in entertainment talk loudly about a show one of them used to work on. I perch on a stool next to a woman reading Arsenic and Adobo, a Filipino American culinary mystery novel and consider the plastic-covered menu in front of me. Phil's Deli is mostly known for its Philly cheesesteaks, patty melts and the pastrami special, which combines pastrami, coleslaw, Swiss cheese and thousand island dressing-in other words, what's probably a pale imitation of Langer's famous #19.
1934), an old-school lunch counter serving all-day breakfast, sandwiches and other classic diner fare.ĭespite plowing through five different sandwiches last week, I'm still drawn to the idea of a thick, juicy heaping pile of pastrami with a side of French fries, so I know I'm basically starving. Today, I know exactly where I'm headed: Phil's Deli & Grill (est. The May gray overhead seems to have dispersed the tourists, though there's still a handful of diners at Monsieur Marcel. This week, strolling through the East Patio, is no exception. In recent weeks, I've begun intermittent fasting, which means my hunger reaches near-uncontrollable levels by the time I walk into the Farmers Market for my weekly visits, which I schedule mostly for lunch.
Last week, Kelly tried Patsy D'Amore's Pizza. Each column will drop on Thursday for a week-by-week recap of her journey through the classic L.A. Table at Third & Fairfax is a weekly dining column in 2023 where Food and Drink editor Patricia Kelly Yeo will eat her way through the Original Farmers Market.
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