Carnegie Delicatessen

• Cuisine(s): Deli, Sandwiches
  Hours: Daily 6:30am-4am
  Price: $$ $$
  Payment Types: cash
• Attire: Casual
  Features: Catering, Delivery, Family Style, Kid Friendly, Kosher, Prix Fixe, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible
  Serving: Breakfast, Dinner, Late Night, Lunch
  Alcohol: Beer, Wine
• Reservations: Accepted, Not Accepted
  Parking: No Parking

Description

One of a dying breed of classic Jewish delis, this Midtown institution is doing just fine, thanks both to its prime location down the street from Carnegie Hall and its gargantuan sandwiches. The restaurant, opened in 1937, smokes and cures all of its meat in its own facility in New Jersey. The menu is absurdly long. Luckily, you know what you want; sandwiches, giant ones that could easily feed two. There are the classics, of course, like pastrami and corned beef (you can combine the two in the "Woody Allen"), or you can get more adventurous with chopped liver or beef tongue. Photographs of celebrities line the walls that surround the 100-plus seats. Servers in bowties run to and fro, setting down cups of matzoh ball soup, gefilte fish platters and thick slices of the house-made cheesecake to tourists and businesspeople, occasionally with some of that patented New York attitude visitors love so much.—Keith Wagstaff