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Is Langer's Deli Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 1 Los Angeles, California

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Langer's Deli is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: A 2026-09-08 check of langersdeli.com returned HTTP 200 with a 2025 copyright notice and an online ordering option; Wikipedia's Langer's Delicatessen-Restaurant article, revised 2026-07-11, describes the deli as an operating kosher-style delicatessen at 704 S. Alvarado St. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Food Network's Best Thing I Ever Ate featured Langer's Delicatessen-Restaurant, a Los Angeles deli, in a 'Between Bread' segment on sandwiches, spotlighting its No. 19 pastrami on rye. Langer's is a kosher-style delicatessen at 704 S. Alvarado St in the Westlake neighborhood, opposite MacArthur Park, founded in 1947, according to Wikipedia's Langer's Delicatessen-Restaurant article, revised July 11, 2026. Since its founding, the restaurant has sold more than twenty million pounds of pastrami, according to the same article. A September 8, 2026 check of langersdeli.com found the site live with a 2025 copyright notice and curb-service and Goldbelly online ordering options, according to langersdeli.com.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 1

Episode 8
Air date not confirmed
Title: Between Bread · What was featured: its No. 19 pastrami on rye sandwich

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. langersdeli.com https://www.langersdeli.com/
  2. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langer%27s_Delicatessen-Restaurant
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