Christina F.
Yelp
It pains me to leave such a poor review for a business I love so much.
First time back home to NY after two long pandemic years, I'd skipped breakfast so getting off my flight I surveyed LaGuardia's new Terminal B options, and decided a bit of nostalgia would hit the spot for a quick lunch.
Ordered the half sandwich cup of soup combo, with a pastrami Reuben, and one slice of classic plain cheesecake.
The sandwich was mostly inedible. The meat had been both cooked improperly and sliced poorly. 80% of it was chewy un-rendered fat and sinew. The bread was not the classic rye I remember from many Juniors meals growing up, and was disappointingly totally untoasted, so it had kind of just slumped sadly over the worst pastrami ever. The sauerkraut was good but should have been double or triple the portion for a Reuben. No sauce other than packets on the side.
The Matzo Ball soup had almost no flavor. The broth was reminiscent of watered-down Cup O Noodles, with the sole fresh addition of some dill fronds and two carrot slices in the whole portion. Speaking of noodles, the soup was full of them- one small Matzo ball, almost 1/2 full of noodles. The Matzo ball itself was great and I wish there had been more.
The cheesecake was good, but just... I think I'm just feeling sad at this point. What a waste of $28. I wish I had time on this trip to visit the original location. But this experience makes me worrisome that if the standards were so poor for a satellite, how good could the flagship be these days?