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If is was recent, sadly, it was not Carnegie’s, of blessed memory.
They don’t?
Actually, I think it is a cut called “navel brisket.” The belly cut (navel) is very fatty, and adjacent to the brisket. The “navel brisket” is the whole thing, and pastrami has the meat of the brisket, and the fat of the navel cut. One of my uncles was friends with a sheckter.
I don’t know where it is either, but if you ask the hotel concierge for directions to Schwartz’s, they’ll know,
FTR, their address is 3895 Boulevard St. Laurent, and the place is so popular, cab drivers will have no problem finding it and getting you there.
I went to the Carnegie Deli once about twenty years ago and ordered the tongue sandwich, mostly out of curiosity. I didn’t care for it. I took the enormous mass of leftovers back to my hotel room and it wasn’t any better the next morning. I haven’t had occasion to visit NYC since. I live in Korea now, and deli food is mighty hard to come by.
Only place I ever enjoyed pickles. They made their own, and they weren’t sour, rubbery things that you could barely guess were ever cucumbers. They were indescribably good. Ruined me for any other pickle. I could eat the little, sweet ones one after the other.
When I was a kid, I got half a Rubens light on the sauerkraut, and made them laugh. After I became a vegetarian, I didn’t go back for a while, but I finally did for the damn pickles, and they weren’t annoyed at all. Made me an amazing veggie and cheese sandwich on light rye with slices of potato. OMG.
I was crushed when I read they were closing, and I didn’t even live in NYC at the time.