Pastrami King Incorporated - Merrick

Pastrami Sandwich (very generous portion) was excellent. Beef barley soup also excellent. Stay away from potato pancakes. The pancakes were hard, greasy and had very little taste. They didn't do anything for my pallet.

I had to try this place because a friend said it was the best pastrami he had on Long Island. So, I drive 15 miles to check it out. The owner Joe happened to be nearby and he walked me through my choices. I settled on a classic combination sandwich; pastrami and corned-beef on rye, a potato knish (baked), a hot cherry pepper and a couple of sweet and sour pickles. Cream soda to wash it down. MAN!! What a meal. The pastrami and corn beef was awesome (I nearly bit my finger on one of the bites). I will be back ...

Just think. We don't often have Deli, but if we do, we want the best and we have it today at Pastrami King in Merrick. The sandwiches were stacked over faith. The bread was amazingly fresh, the Coleslaw and Pickles simply delicious and of course the Dr. Brown?s Cel-Ray is always a favorite. Our waitress was lovely and I appreciated the way the restaurant separated the tables to keep people from sitting in this Covid environment. Couldn't have been happier?. great cudos to management in people in the kitchen.

Horrible tasting food or No taste at all. We haven't been there in years, tried it yesterday, but won't go back. It was a waste of money! The only thing that tasted pretty good was the Reuben but the pastrami sandwich was dry, fatty, and didn't taste good. The rye bread in the sandwich was too small, the potato salad had no taste at all, the potato pancakes were so dried up and lumpy, there was maybe only one bite we were able to take from the center of it but it was so hard that we had trouble biting into it and we couldn't even eat it at all. We ended up throwing it out. Terrible, terrible food. We were highly disappointed.

While the sandwiches and meats are pretty darn good, the deep fryer leaves something to be desired. Regular fries are well overdone, and they might as well take sweet potato fries off the menu. These aren't exactly fries so much as someone decided to baked a whole sweet potato and then cut it into gigantic chunks and called it a fry.