Carnegie Deli
854 7th Ave
New York, NY
While we can’t deny there a lot of good eats in Vancouver, we do not have one thing: an iconic restaurant – that one place we people would fly here and should/have to try (whether the food is actually good or bad, that is a different story). This is despite author Jennifer 8. Lee considered Zen Chinese Cuisine to have the best Chinese food outside of China. But, then again, with restaurants almost semi-constantly changing ownership/management/head chefs (best example being that of Lumiere and Rob Feenie), not to mention closing down – including the before mentioned Zen, when it fails the test of time, well, you simply can’t create those roots for the restaurant to grasp and grow. Then again, Vancouver is a relatively young city so we can give it a bit of leeway. That is not necessarily the case for New York City, where it has developed landmark restaurants, where locals still go in masses and tourists are curious about, which is my third criteria in my culinary adventure in New York City: a visit to a semi-iconic restaurant. And the “chosen” one was Carnegie Deli.
