How’s the Jewish Deli Doing?
Where To Eat: New York City
As the exhibit “‘I’ll Have What She’s Having’: The Jewish Deli” arrives in New York, Nikita Richardson dives into the evolving scene with a visit to Liebman’s Deli
“…Jeffrey also pointed me in the direction of Liebman’s Deli, the nearly 70-year-old restaurant in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, so I drove up to West 235th Street. At 11 a.m. on a Friday, the scene at Liebman’s was mostly older customers popping in to order matzo ball soup with two extra matzo balls, and “not too hot.” Order an early lunch of the No. 7 (thinly sliced pastrami and corned beef on rye with coleslaw and Russian dressing) and scarf it down in your car before driving through the Hudson Valley at peak fall foliage — or something like that….”
