The bar is open

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I'll have what she's having

Barry and Carrie @ Katz's Delicatessen, Houston and Ludlow Streets, New York City:



(You can see this much more clearly if you click on the picture and view it in a larger format, but the sign over the cash register in the back exhorts, "Send a salami to your boy in the Army!" Good advice, and they've been dispensing it since the Spanish-American War at least...)

Catering for all occasions (a view of the front counter... and that's our buddy and dining companion Bill in the right of the frame):

Thought for the day

Parisian food critic François Regis Gaudry, writing in L’Express: “Americans in a bistro are like ladybugs in a garden, a sign of its rude good health.”

(cited in Alexander Lobrano's fantastic recent series of NYT blog posts on dining out in New York and Paris)