Counter Intelligence: Umamicatessen in downtown L.A.
A wealth of imagination is on the menu at the multi-kitchen restaurant: Rethink that pastrami sandwich, a bourbon cocktail, the PB&J. Everyone knows that Langer's serves the best pastrami sandwich in town. Guidebooks say so. National magazines say so. The subway disgorges so many Langer's-bound fressers that it has sometimes been called the Pastrami Express. Many of us think Langer's serves the ...
Andrea K. Scott: Wong, in the West Village review.
paragraph class="noindent"Wong proves the adage: there’s always room for one more. The palate-dazzling newcomer is the eighth restaurant lining the short Village block that also boasts Po (Mario Batali’s first venture) and Pearl Oyster Bar (the lobster-roll-craze pioneer). Not that the . . .