Nice writeup and photos.
My friends and I were in LA in March 2020, so right before everything shut down. One hadn’t really been to LA besides a music festival once, but I lived there for 5 years so took them around to some old-school LA spots mixed in with the new places.
So of course Langer’s was on the menu. He’s born and raised in SF so doesn’t really know deli, but had somehow heard of the “world famous #19” so he got that and I got pastrami with mustard. We half shared since I told him the pastrami on rye with mustard is how you judge a deli which claims to have good pastrami (and that Langer’s beats most if not all). I think he did end up liking the regular over the 19 at the end.
And good looking on that egg salad and liver sandwich. I lived down there for school and had that sandwich a few times on some rough mornings.
