Lately we’ve been watching a food/travel series on Netflix called “I’ll Have What Phil’s Having”. (We missed, ignored, actually, the series when it debuted on PBS in 2015.) In the Los Angeles episode that we saw last night, host and comedy writer Phil Rosenthal visited what he regarded as the source of the best pastrami on rye on the planet — Langer’s.
You may remember that an earlier post recalled my very first day in Los Angeles, when I blundered upon Langer’s. From then on, it became a favorite. Sometimes, a few of us in the downtown GAO office would try to manage a long lunch so we could drive there for a sandwich. Surprisingly, Kim does not remember the place; it seems unlikely that I never took her there during our early days, but we did live in Hollywood and the west side then and tended to frequent delis like Canter’s in that territory …