Saturday Excursion

After S was off work on Saturday, we decided to meet up at Katz's Delicatessen in the Lower East Side. They have been in NY since 1888 and are supposed to have some of the best pastrami and corned beef around. It's a very famous place, and you may know it from the movie When Harry met Sally. On my way there, I had to change subways on 23rd Street and I ran into the Chelsea Hotel. This is another place full of NY history...Bob Dylan has stayed here, Dylan Thomas, Mark Twain, and famously, this is where Sid Vicious allegedly killed Nancy Spungen in 1978. I'd like to stay in a room here for one night sometime.


Here is Katz's. It was a total madhouse inside. S and I had to walk around for 5 minutes before grabbing a couple of seats and then wait another 20 minutes in line to get our sandwich.
Here is a shot from inside. The crowd on the right is where you fight your way to the counter to order a sandwich. We ended up splitting a pastrami on rye and it was pretty incredible. We don't eat a ton of meat, so unfortunately we had to leave about half of the pastrami on the plate; unfortunate especially since 1 sandwich costs $18!! It was a really fun experience, though.

Afterwards, we walked a few blocks south to try out the donuts at Doughnut Plant. There was a long line...we waited probably about 40 minutes, but the donuts were gooood. We learned that you have to go early because they were out of a lot of flavors.This is the view from the back of a 40-minute line. No complaining though, these donuts delivered.