Eating pastrami on rye from Pastrami Queen feels as quintessentially New York as hailing a cab on 5th Avenue or stepping in a ...

L.A. cannot lose these sandwiches. They can come on twice-baked rye bread, on French rolls, on fluffy egg bread or white toast, all plump with pastrami or corned beef or turkey or tuna.

Smokey John’s finished sandwich is served on seedless rye bread from Signature Bakery, piled high with pastrami and then topped with spicy brown deli mustard and provolone cheese. Kosher pickle ...