Midtown Has 2 of the 3 Best Matzoh Ball Soups in NYC
Always Hungry has a round up of the best matzo ball soups in New York City, and surprisingly they only liked three versions. Even more surprising is that 2 of the 3 are right here in Midtown: Sarge’s (on 3rd btw. 36+37th) and 2nd Ave. Deli (on 33rd btw. Lex+3rd). Carnegie Deli’s version got a C (barely passing) and the Cafe Edison (on 47th btw. B’way+8th) was totally left out! I wonder how they would have stacked up.
Posted: 8:00 am, April 9th, 2009 under Cafe Edison, Soups.
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Tyler, that’s a big claim.
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Yeah, Tyler. I may have to put that place to the test.
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Trust me, the pastrami isn’t hand cut like Katz’s, but the meat is still sliced to order and has a much higher fat content, so it is ridiculously moist.
Not to mention they are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I can’t tell you how many times I have stumbled in there at 4 am to demolish a matzo ball soup and pastrami on rye. -
The man is right. Corned beef isn’t shabby either.
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I have to tell you that pastrami (smoked corned beef) which I have been making for nearly 50 years in Texas and Arkansas is some of the best food on the planet.
BUT — ‘Matzoh Balls’??? They would gag a Southern maggot, that’s for sure.
However, I HAVE used them as trotline bait when fishing for catfish. And the bottom-scavenging catfish seem to LOVE them!
Why the last time I went catfishin’ in Arkansas, using that matzoh ball (we call them dough balls in the South) bait, we caught over 85 pounds of catfish.
Sarge’s also has the city’s best pastrami, yeah you heard me Katz’s…