Margaret Suran said...

> Andy wrote:
>> Stan Horwitz said..o!
>>>>
>>>> I've never been to the 2nd Ave. Deli, either locations. Did the recipe
>>>> change from the old to the new place? Just out of curiosity.
>>> All the recipes are the same as far as I know. What changed is that the
>>> new location is extremely cramped, whereas the 2nd Ave. Deli's previous
>>> location was reasonably spacious.
>>
>>
>> Stan,
>>
>> Shame they had to relocate!
>>
>> Never been to either. I'd've (if I'd known) gone to the original 2nd Ave
>> Deli.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> Margaret and I have a date, iirc. Be there when the time comes?
>
>
> Andy, I am going to break our date.
>
> Sue, Marcel and I were there a couple of months ago and it was a
> disaster. I believe Sue posted about our lunch, but she was too polite
> to tell the whole story.
>
> The seating was so tight, I had a woman from the next table sitting
> partially on my lap. Poor woman, she kept apologizing and swearing she
> would never come back.
>
> The waiter made Marcel get out of his chair and move to another part of
> the table, even though he has a lot of trouble getting up and we told
> that to the waiter, just so they could squeeze another chair into a
> space that did not exist, at another adjacent table.
>
> Sue could not eat the Pastrami in her sandwich. It was nothing like she
> had eaten in the original Deli several times. It was fat, stringy and
bad.
>
> The service was miserable. Once we got our food, both a waiter and a
> bus boy kept asking whether they could remove the dishes from which we
> were still eating. Sure, they wanted to get rid of us and get another
> party seated, but it sure was weird when they removed some stuff while
> we were still eating our sandwiches.
>
> There were a couple of other annoyances, such a the entrance to the
> toilets being blocked by a large stroller and no access to them, until
> someone was found to remove it.
>
> I had promised someone to bring back some sliced tongue. The man behind
> the deli counter showed me the tongue from which he would slice my
> order, at $36.00 a pound. It was a beautiful tongue. He sliced and I
> waited. Then a waitress called in an order for a tongue sandwich. The
> slicer took MY tongue and made a sandwich with it. I didn't bother to
> look what the new tongue he sliced looked like. The same thing happened
> once more, whatever was being sliced for me, went into a sandwich for
> another guest.
>
> I have to admit, that the tongue a brought to my friend, was really good.
>
> So, Andy, instead of going to the new 2nd Avenue Deli, we will make
> other arrangements for our date. )
>
> Hugs, M


Does that mean we can't meet at Lincoln Center fountain for a glass or two
of wine? Take in an opera? I don't where to dine there, but I'll treat!??

Plaza hotel can hold me over for the night.

Andy