834 Seventh Ave<\/a>. \u2014\u00a0once the site of its longtime rival the Stage Deli, which closed in 2012 \u2014 means a helluva lot more now. It puts a little bit of old-time magic back in fast-changing West Midtown, which needs all the retro vibe it can get.<\/p>\nOwner Sarri Harper looked for a new location to reopen for years. (Carnegie Deli products were available only online and at sports venues). It was only a \u201ctwist of fate\u201d they ended up at the old Stage location, her spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The reborn Carnegie Deli has better pastrami and chicken soup than its predecessor did.\u00a0Service by friendly waitresses is a big improvement over the crusty \u201cwhaddya have\u201d of yore.<\/p>\n
It all happens amidst vintage, \u201cWall of Fame\u201d photos of showbiz stars that recall the films and TV shows shot at the original Carnegie like \u201cBroadway Danny Rose.\u201d There\u2019s thankfully no music of the cliched \u201cNew York, New York\u201d school, but jazz standards like Horace Silver\u2019s \u201cSong For My Father\u201d and numerous Miles Davis classics.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re sweet notes for Seventh Avenue in the 50s that\u2019s still recovering from COVID-19.\u00a0 The former Wellington Hotel is being demolished for a fancy new inn. Restaurants such as Petrossian, Redeye Grill, Rosie O\u2019Grady\u2019s and Molyvos are gone.<\/p>\n
The Carnegie revival \u2014 not to be confused with unrelated Midtown places called Carnegie Diner \u2014\u00a0could \u00a0have been a fake-nostalgia stinker. The original Carnegie Deli sign over the entrance and the wall photos \u00a0would mean zip if the food poorly channeled the past.<\/p>\n
Carnegie Deli is located at 834 Seventh Avenue, once the site of the Stage Deli, which closed in 2012. Aristide Economopoulos for NY Post<\/p>\n
But Carnegie Deli dishes, which flow from a fun-to-watch open counter, aren\u2019t the same as they were, but better.<\/p>\n
It took a T-Rex to get its jaws around Carnegie\u2019s signature, four-inch-tall pastrami on rye sandwich ($29). It still does, but I tried my best. The warm, juice-oozing, spiced and house-brined cut known as beef navel is thinner sliced and tastier than I remember. Four inches thick (not including the bread!) were perhaps a half-inch too many. Pastrami needs fat to be tasty but it had a little too much both times I tried it.<\/p>\n
Homemade chicken soup with matzo balls and golden noodles was as hearty as \u201cJewish penicillin\u201d ought to be. Three thick, spicy and juicy chicken sausages are a ridiculous bargain for just $9. The menu also has Reubens, corned beef, all-day breakfast dishes, noshes, hot dogs and burgers.<\/p>\n
The famed deli\u2019s pastrami sandiwch is four inches thick, not including the bread. Aristide Economopoulos for NY Post<\/p>\n
Pastrami is hardly scarce in the Big Apple. It\u2019s everywhere from the Second Avenue Deli to Katz\u2019s of \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally\u201d fame and a million others. There are fancy riffs as well. Morgan\u2019s Brooklyn Barbecue offers short rib on the bone smoked Texas-style. There\u2019s boneless pastrami suya at Nigerian-inspired Tatiana at Lincoln Center.<\/p>\n
But there\u2019s nothing like eating the artery-clogging original on its home turf. Just remember to open wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carnegie Deli\u2019s back after a 10-year absence \u2014 and not a New York Minute too soon. \u00a0 Historic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,54761,3286,5871,34868,1999,4322,194],"class_list":["post-853451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-carnegie-deli","tag-food-drink","tag-metro","tag-midtown","tag-new-york-city","tag-restaurants","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}