Pastrami Queen

"This kosher Upper East Side (and before that, Queens) transplant turned heads when it opened during the pandemic, and it generated long, socially distanced lines. It’s been a long time since the Upper West Side could boast pastrami this good. Carry out — and eat fast. Matzo ball soup and hot dogs liberally smeared with mustard are tops, too." - Robert Sietsema

"This kosher Upper East Side (and before that, Queens) transplant turned heads when it opened a few months ago during the pandemic, and it generated long, socially distanced lines. It’s been a long time since the Upper West Side could boast pastrami this good. Matzo ball soup and hot dogs liberally smeared with mustard are tops, too. Like Gray’s Papaya, it’s located within quick walking distance of both Lincoln Center and the Beacon Theatre." - Ryan Sutton

"Fine & Schapiro, a deli on West Seventy-second Street, closed in 2020, after ninety-three years in business, but it was swiftly replaced by an outpost of the Upper East Side’s Pastrami Queen." - Hannah Goldfield

"The line at the Upper West Side’s newly opened Pastrami Queen stretched longer than the neighborhood’s City MD line yesterday." - Luke Fortney

"The more than 60-year-old Jewish deli Pastrami Queen has opened a second location in the former home of Fine and Schapiro, which closed in March after more than 93 years in the neighborhood." - Luke Fortney