Classic Eats #9 is scheduled for Saturday, February 27. Where shall it be?
Our three options:
Hot Hollywood Night: Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles and Boardner’s
Burbank Bonanza: The Smokehouse
Westside Alka-Seltzer Fest: Tito’s Tacos and Johnnie’s Pastrami
As ever, we’ll start around 5pm so you can stop in then move on to the rest of your Saturday evening events. Or stay all night!
Looking forward to seeing you all soon!
The scene was set in the lobby of a bustling train station. But, this was not New York. Or, Chicago.
It was Los Angeles. The year was 1956.
Photo from the USC Digital Library
Thanks to everyone who made Classic Eats #8 a smashing success! What a great way to start the Classic Eats New Year!
We started at Langers at 2:30, Metblogs signage in hand. We waited for a few minutes until Mr. Langer himself came out to greet us, then we were bumped ahead of the line (sorry!) to a table that expanded to hold 16 of us! We gorged on delicious sandwiches then some of us moved on to Cole’s at 6th and Main.
It was a great time, great stories, lots of history and delicious food!
Save the date for Classic Eats #9: February 27.
Click past the jump to see more photos and hear more about the afternoon/evening.
Quick reminder that we’ll (hopefully) see a lot of you tomorrow, Saturday, January 23rd at 2:30pm at Langer’s. They know we are coming and are very excited about it. LA Metblogs Classic Eats is at the top of their news page!
When close down Langer’s at 4pm (when they close), we’ll proceed to Cole’s around 4:30 – 5pm where you can either eat more deli meats or have an early cocktail or two. We’re not fussy.
What then: Some people may be off to the Derby Dolls, some people may stick around. It’s entirely up to you!
Can’t wait!
Throughout the quiet wheat fields and peach groves of the Valley, a real estate development boom was underway. To attract prospective homeowners to the neighboring glamour of a new suburbia in Lankershim, they would soon call it North Hollywood.
The year was 1926.
Photo from the USC Digital Library
The voting is now closed and the winner, showing a clear mandate for pastrami, is the Downtown Deli Smack Down! 67% of the 61 votes went to the Langer’s and Cole’s event. Let’s go to the details:
What day: (this) Saturday, January 23rd
What time: 2:30pm start at Langer’s for what Jonathan Gold calls the best pastrami in the country and Langer’s themselves call best in the world. When we get kicked out of Langer’s at 4pm (when they close), we’ll proceed to Cole’s around 5pm where you can either eat more deli meats or have an early cocktail or two. We’re not fussy.
What then: Some people may be off to the Derby Dolls, some people may stick around. It’s entirely up to you!
Langer’s has been family owned since 1947 and serves what many people say is the best pastrami in the country. Let’s find out! (Langer’s is old school and closes at 4pm so we’d need to get there early.) Cole’s has been around since 1908 and recently went through a refurbish and kind of rebirth. Some of you think it’s a great thing, some of you don’t. Put your vote where you opinion is and let’s see how well that $1.6million was spent.
Looking forward to the first Classic Eats of 2010!
So, are you mystified about the state of same-sex marriage in California? At first glance it looks easy. On one side, you’ve got your proponents of same-sex marriage: Advocacy groups like the ACLU; big corporations like Google; and Americans everywhere who think that other people’s romantic lives are none of their business. And on the other side you’ve got rich Mormons, Carrie Prejean, and people who think that marriage is a totally sacred institution that’s always been treated with the utmost respect throughout all of human history and nobody ever gets divorced and Ted Haggard was FRAMED dammit.
But look a little closer, and you’ll find that California has a weird and complex relationship with same-sex marriage, and that proponents of “opposite marriage,” as the eminent Ms. Prejean has termed it, have had quite a fight on their hands when it comes to preserving their way of life, which by the way is honorable and traditional and totally without any problems. Also whenever gay people get married God gives a kitten pancreatic cancer.
Sorry. My point is that the recent history of marriage in California is a bit of a labyrinth, and if you’re going to try to understand the case that began in court last week — Perry v. Schwarzenegger – you’re going to have to learn a little history.
So here it is.
From Vine Street, you couldn’t miss the year-old sign for the new real estate in the hills. Especially at night, when thirteen 50-foot letters and four thousand 20 watt light bulbs would pronounce “HOLLY”… “WOOD”… “LAND.”
The year was 1925.
Photo from the USC Digital Library
The votes keep coming in and currently Downtown Deli Smackdown is winning with 64% of the votes. If you were hankering for the Hollywood Resolution Buster, then you better get voting and get your friends to join in too! No matter what, vote if you haven’t already. Survey will be up until Monday morning, January 18.
Classic Eats #8 = Saturday January 23rd
The start times will be determined by the locations chosen. We usually start around 5pm to A) beat the crowds and B) give you time to head out to other Saturday night activities afterward. If Langer’s V. Cole’s wins, we will start even earlier because Langer’s closes at 4pm.
Another incentive for the Downtown Deli Smack Down to win is that it could end in time for you to see the opening night of The Derby Dolls. And if you want to work out a bit before hitting the pastrami, check out Down and Derby on Thursday, Jan. 21!
Click past the jump to read all about our candidates.
Saturday January 23rd is Classic Eats #8 and the polls have been open for almost a week now. So far Downtown Deli Smack Down is ahead with the Hollywood Resolution Buster coming in second. Voting will remain open until Monday, January 18th! If you haven’t voted yet, please do so. If you have, tell your friends to come along and vote!
The start times will be determined by the locations chosen. We usually start around 5pm to A) beat the crowds and B) give you time to head out to other Saturday night activities afterward. If Langer’s V. Cole’s wins, we will start even earlier because Langer’s closes at 4pm.
Click past the jump to read all about our candidates.
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