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71.4300012588501% positive |
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This was once a fun place full of character, now it is a disgusting dirty get them in get them out factory with rude help and the worst food in the city. ”
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It never ceases to amaze me when people write negative reviews of excellent, cheap-eats type places and fault them for their spartan decor, surly puryeors, and basic service. ”
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The food is still good but I wish the ambience was what is was 20-25 years ago. ”
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The atmosphere is not for the faint of heart (the lines, the crowded, the bus-your-own-everything, the sawdust on the floor, the nasty bathroom, the don't-lose-your-ticket-or-else). ”
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Dingy but colorful, great food, huge portions -- and just plain lots of fun. ”
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Fabulous old decor & the best food we had on our recent trip to NYC. ”
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Yes, it has an authentic Old Manhattan atmosphere, which is harder and harder to find these days, and it serves a decent corned beef sandwich. ”
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| dessert |
100.0% positive |
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enjoy an egg cream or a cel-ray soda with your meal. ”
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had a chopped liver sandwich and a vanilla egg cream, and my husband enjoyed a pastrami Reuben with a chocolate egg cream. ”
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An egg cream should be in a nice soda glass for over $4. ”
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| drinks |
0.0% positive |
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The Pastrami sandwich was like "buttah" and with pickles and an icy cold beer to wash it down, it was a pleasurable experience. ”
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Sandwich & a cold beer and you're all set! ”
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| food quality |
74.40000057220459% positive |
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The food is still as good now as when I was a kid. ”
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Excellent sandwiches! ”
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But the food was terrible -- and expensive! ”
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Decent corned beef; deplorable service ”
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enjoy an egg cream or a cel-ray soda with your meal. ”
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My matzoh ball soup was very mediocre. ”
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Yes, it has an authentic Old Manhattan atmosphere, which is harder and harder to find these days, and it serves a decent corned beef sandwich. ”
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Katz's Deli is the most overrated food place I've ever been to, On a recent visit we were served dry tasteless french fries, a plate of pick. ”
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for those who don't like the food. ”
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Matzoh ball soup should be piping hot, a great chicken broth and the matzoh ball should be flavorful and hot. ”
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The delicious pastrami, corned beef, salami, tongue, etc. also remain the same. ”
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The soup was nice but wasn't too convinced by the Matzoh ball. ”
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This is not justifiable---the portions are small, the food is disgusting, the staff rude, and the environment filthy. ”
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Love the matzo balls and chopped chicken liver. ”
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Want abuse and overpriced food? ”
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Well maybe its becaue once I did get my sandwich it was very good. ”
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Dear God without doubt-the best sweet potato knish's and also some of the best pickles you can come by! ”
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It seemed to me that Katz's attracts a good many tourists but this native New Yorker will still occasionally return to Katz's when I am feeling nostalgia for some tasty, old time deli. ”
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If they were actually well managed they would have a happier staff, the place wouldn't look like a dive, which it is, it wouldn't be a riddle to find out how to get service, it wouldn't be a surprise that there is 'waiter' service, there wouldn't be table ”
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The food is still good but I wish the ambience was what is was 20-25 years ago. ”
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If you're hesitant that it's the best kosher deli, just stop in and try a pastrami sandwich. ”
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The other food there outside of the Pastrami that is good corned beef. ”
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Fabulous old decor & the best food we had on our recent trip to NYC. ”
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As a native New Yorker, I've been going to delis, including Katz's, my whole life, so I know a thing or two about good corned beef and pastrami. ”
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You will not be disappointed with the juicy, crisp outside, tangy meat. ”
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The corned beef was good too but a bit dry for my taste - maybe because I ordered it lean. ”
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Go to Kennsington Deli in Great Neck for a good tasting Kosher sandwich. ”
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the soup is COLD and disgusting. ”
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The corned beef Rueben was terrible --the meat was dry and the sandwich was greasy. ”
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While there are plenty of places to go for a good corned beef sandwich, Katz's has a charm about it. ”
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They'll usually give you a sample piece while they make your sandwich, and it's that first bite that always puts a smile on my face and makes me remember why Katz's is so good. ”
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My friend and I didn't like the corned beef, maybe because we were already full on the pastrami. ”
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The reuben is an astounding $15.75 complete with tasteless rye bread and sauerkraut with metled cheese direct from the. ”
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This was not just the worst meal of the year, but perhaps of the decade and century! ”
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Thirdly, I just cannot recommend this place because the chaos the ordering system is, the reliance on tickets that can be lost (it also bespeaks of how much they trust the customer - or are hoping they lose their ticket), the bleh non-meat food, the miser ”
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While the sandwiches are not the very best I have ever eaten, I found the meat, the pastrami in particular, to be quite tasty. ”
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the pastrami is delicious, and my fave sandwich. ”
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this place is hands down the best pastrami sandwich you'll ever have in your life. ”
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Now, the sandwich was extremely good -- but it should have been for $14.95. ”
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Matzoh ball soup was tasteless, pickles were limp and fries were mostly soggy and greasy. ”
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The matzoh ball soup is the best i've ever eaten and this includes homemade recipes from my jewish relatives. ”
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Pastrami or corned beef are juicy and piled high (ask for extra rye bread). ”
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The food is awful. ”
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LOVE their pastrami sandwich on rye. ”
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love the quality of the food ”
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The only thing is the food was just awful. ”
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Overall, great food and good experience. ”
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The pastrimi sandwich is simply the BEST in the city. ”
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Only once did I have a piled high sandwich that was not very enjoyable that was more like it was from the Carnegie del. ”
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The latkes I have to say might be the best I have ever had, thin and crisp with the perfect potato flavor. ”
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but i must admit that the pastrami sandwich looked great on TV, so i decided to give Katz Deli a try. ”
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don't see how anyone can think you'll get a better pastrami sandwich anywhere, and the hot dogs are the best around. ”
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As a big meat eater I must recommend the hot Pastrami. ”
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Corned beef is also excellent but by nature it is not as flavorful or moist. ”
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Great portions on the sandwiches. ”
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Although I didn't enjoy my bill, I did enjoy the sandwiches. ”
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Cool nostalgic vibe to it and I LOVE the sample they give you while you're waiting for your sandwich to be made. ”
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I'll be honest, the sandwich was greasy, heavy, and one of the best pastrami sandwiches I've ever had! ”
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the food is that good! ”
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The Pastrami was juicy and delicious with enough meat to feed 2. ”
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The sandwich is huge, the pastrami is tender, hand cut, juicy. ”
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Katz's is old New York at it's authentic and contemporary best. ”
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This was once a fun place full of character, now it is a disgusting dirty get them in get them out factory with rude help and the worst food in the city. ”
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french fries, Cole Slaw and pickles were all good. ”
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I'm not a pastrami/corned beef fan so when I got to Katz's, it's for the best hot dogs (mustard, saurkraut) in the city, snappy and fresh, and knishes, kasha-filled and hot and crispy, amazingly comforting with brown mustard. ”
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the prices have obviously gone up since then and now i don't go often, but i know it's the place to go for a nice family meal that we'll all like. ”
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The meat is ok (not good, but not vomitable) on the sandwich, but the radiation cheese and sauerkraut are gross. ”
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They will give you a sample while slicing the meat, and the sandwiches are big enough to easily share (no charge either!) ”
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The food is amazingly good and I am thankful for having encountered it. ”
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Wish they would grace their meat with some better bread, but the plain Jane rye provided a nice blank canvas, in a sense. ”
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An egg cream should be in a nice soda glass for over $4. ”
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The meat was warm and thickly sliced - not like the pastrami you buy at the deli that is cold and sliced thin on a machine. ”
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Last night me and my partner REALLY wanted a GOOD pastrami and corned beff sandwich. ”
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The meats (pastrami, corned beef and tongue) are quite good (note: NOT best) but don't have anything else. ”
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had a great corned beef sandwich at Katz and that was without tipping beforehand because I only had large-denomination bills in my wallet. ”
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The turkey's great too and the steak fries are about as good as frozen steak fries can get. ”
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don't miss out on a plate full of fresh dill pickles. ”
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Sometimes I'll go with potato salad or a knish on the side, because you can't go wrong with either of those, and occasionally I'll have one of their delicious hot dogs as a prelude to my pastrami. ”
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Heres the thing yeah its a good sandwich but so what for this price $$$$ you can have a very good meal almost anywhere in NYC so save your money. ”
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Before I lay into them I will say that the meat (on the reuben) is 'good' but no better than what you can find at a good BBQ joint where the meat is tender and juicy and about three times less expensive. ”
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Potato salad - vomitable; one bite and I felt sick. ”
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terrible pastrami and corned beef. ”
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The food is wonderful it is the best deli. ”
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Also do keep in mind that it's probably also going to be one of the most expensive sandwiches you'll ever eat. ”
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If you are in search of the most authentic NYC deli experience look no further than the famous and historic Katz's Deli down on the Lower East Side. ”
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had a chopped liver sandwich and a vanilla egg cream, and my husband enjoyed a pastrami Reuben with a chocolate egg cream. ”
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The no-frills matzo ball soup is also very good, and never forget to order a side of half-sour pickles! ”
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was able to finally visit this legendary deli earlier this year and ordered their famous pastrami sandwich. ”
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Dingy but colorful, great food, huge portions -- and just plain lots of fun. ”
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The pastrami sandwich overflows with juicy goodness, and I can't get enough of the fresh pickles. ”
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The pickles that accompanied the sandwiches were excellent. ”
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Kosher dills are the perfect compliment for your unforgetable sandwich and they give you plenty of them. ”
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their corn beef and the pastrami are the best that money can buy and one sandwich is enough for two ”
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The Pastrami sandwich was like "buttah" and with pickles and an icy cold beer to wash it down, it was a pleasurable experience. ”
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would definitely visit again and bring friends from the Philippines over, hopefully to try the famous corned beef and salami next time. ”
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tried the pastrami and corned beef (both warm), and the cold roast beef - all were good, but not quite $10-13 good, for such a small sandwich. ”
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The pastrami sandwich was outstanding! ”
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| overall |
75.0% positive |
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If you are a vegetarian, this really isn't a good place to go. ”
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The place is the best place on the East Coast for Pastrami and has been rated by many people. ”
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am really surprised to see here those great reviews and all those pictures of famous people hanging in the big hall of the restaurant. ”
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It's the best place i NYC. ”
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| return potential |
50.0% positive |
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took my family here for the real deli experience, and I'll never go back, the service is deplorable, the staff is rude, and the prices are ridiculous. ”
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It seemed to me that Katz's attracts a good many tourists but this native New Yorker will still occasionally return to Katz's when I am feeling nostalgia for some tasty, old time deli. ”
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| service |
42.58999824523926% positive |
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you are shuffled around by hang dog bus people who apologize profusely about the rude management who close down sections you are eating in and make you move. ”
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If you are going to make people wait on the disgusting line, then you should use the same method that banks employ. ”
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can only surmise that people have never had decent pastrami to compare this dreck with. ”
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took my family here for the real deli experience, and I'll never go back, the service is deplorable, the staff is rude, and the prices are ridiculous. ”
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If they were actually well managed they would have a happier staff, the place wouldn't look like a dive, which it is, it wouldn't be a riddle to find out how to get service, it wouldn't be a surprise that there is 'waiter' service, there wouldn't be table ”
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The staff knows their stuff and the owners are professional and on the ball. ”
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Decent corned beef; deplorable service ”
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Service is always a bit mediocre and the seating is not great because its a cafeteria but youre not there for the seating or the service, your there for the legendary pastrami and thats what youll get. ”
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Our waiter was rude, and tried to serve me a bagel with lox and creme cheese on a cinnamon raisin bagel. ”
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am really surprised to see here those great reviews and all those pictures of famous people hanging in the big hall of the restaurant. ”
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People who work there are good people. ”
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Please ignore all reviews that say this place is terrible and mark it with one star, it is not meant to be a 5 star restaurant with crisp white linens and impeccable waiter service. ”
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Expensive, dirty, rude. ”
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This is not justifiable---the portions are small, the food is disgusting, the staff rude, and the environment filthy. ”
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These people are rude. ”
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the staff was rude, and the area where you could be served by a waitress had people waiting like vultures for the next available table! ”
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The place is the best place on the East Coast for Pastrami and has been rated by many people. ”
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The waitress was nice, but the others were indifferent or surly. ”
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The service was excellent. ”
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The staff is very, very rude. ”
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There were other people on my line that were getting really mad, cursing under their breath about our guy and your poor system of service. ”
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It never ceases to amaze me when people write negative reviews of excellent, cheap-eats type places and fault them for their spartan decor, surly puryeors, and basic service. ”
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This was once a fun place full of character, now it is a disgusting dirty get them in get them out factory with rude help and the worst food in the city. ”
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Thirdly, I just cannot recommend this place because the chaos the ordering system is, the reliance on tickets that can be lost (it also bespeaks of how much they trust the customer - or are hoping they lose their ticket), the bleh non-meat food, the miser ”
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The waitresses are nice--also you can just get counter service & sit. ”
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the people were rude and i will never step foot in this "landmark" again. ”
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Dingy w/ yellowed pictures of all the famous people IE President Clinton after 2 hot dogs and a pastami WOW howed he do that, Jerry Lewis, and of coarse Harry & Sally. ”
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| value |
56.479997634887695% positive |
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Want abuse and overpriced food? ”
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The sandwich is huge, the pastrami is tender, hand cut, juicy. ”
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The pastrami was excellent, and half was enough to fill me but I'm not sure if it's worth $15. ”
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took my family here for the real deli experience, and I'll never go back, the service is deplorable, the staff is rude, and the prices are ridiculous. ”
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This is not justifiable---the portions are small, the food is disgusting, the staff rude, and the environment filthy. ”
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Dingy but colorful, great food, huge portions -- and just plain lots of fun. ”
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Also do keep in mind that it's probably also going to be one of the most expensive sandwiches you'll ever eat. ”
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Great portions on the sandwiches. ”
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Thirdly, I just cannot recommend this place because the chaos the ordering system is, the reliance on tickets that can be lost (it also bespeaks of how much they trust the customer - or are hoping they lose their ticket), the bleh non-meat food, the miser ”
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the prices have obviously gone up since then and now i don't go often, but i know it's the place to go for a nice family meal that we'll all like. ”
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WAY too expensive! ”
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Before I lay into them I will say that the meat (on the reuben) is 'good' but no better than what you can find at a good BBQ joint where the meat is tender and juicy and about three times less expensive. ”
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their corn beef and the pastrami are the best that money can buy and one sandwich is enough for two ”
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But the food was terrible -- and expensive! ”
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Heres the thing yeah its a good sandwich but so what for this price $$$$ you can have a very good meal almost anywhere in NYC so save your money. ”
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huge rip-off. ”
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I've had equally large portions at Carnegie and Stage delis which were painfully dry. ”
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It never ceases to amaze me when people write negative reviews of excellent, cheap-eats type places and fault them for their spartan decor, surly puryeors, and basic service. ”
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