Does Anyone in Cincy Make a True Cleveland-Style Corned Beef? (Cincinnati: home, vs.)

[Wilson513]

Originally Posted by Cleveland_Collector

Who's pontificating? He's knocking something he's never even had. That's the true reason why he should give up.

This is realy simple. I said the photo of the Slyman's cb looked lame, which it does. I put up a photo from Katz's and said this is what real cb looks like, which it does. I never said Katz was the best. I never said squat about Kat's bread. I've been to NYC dozens of times and never been to Katz's. I think NYC food is way over-rated. Fact is, I think you can only get a really great cb sandwich from the smaller deli where the owner's wife makes the cb and he slices it for your sandwich. Among the places that make 100,000 sandwichs or so a year, maybe Slymans and Izzy's are the best you can do. But, the photo posted by the OP shows lame cb on lame bread. End of story.

PS, that's pastrami on that Woody Allen with the cb. I've been to the Carnegie.

[Sarah Perry]

Back to Cincinnati for a moment: I remember the real Izzy, the real deli, and the real food. Even accounting for the Good Old Days filter effect, I don't see any resemblance to the current chain beyond the name. Am I to take it that no one has a Cincinnati area alternative to Izzy's to suggest?

[smoking357]

Originally Posted by wilson1010

This is realy simple. I said the photo of the Slyman's cb looked lame, which it does. I put up a photo from Katz's and said this is what real cb looks like, which it does.

I don't think you're a good judge of corned beef.

I think NYC food is way over-rated. Fact is, I think you can only get a really great cb sandwich from the smaller deli where the owner's wife makes the cb and he slices it for your sandwich.

Well, you couldn't give me a name of such a place in Chicago. Do you have a name of one of these NYC places "where the owner's wife makes the cb"?

Among the places that make 100,000 sandwichs or so a year, maybe Slymans and Izzy's are the best you can do. But, the photo posted by the OP shows lame cb on lame bread. End of story.

The end of the story is that you started commenting on something you don't know about.

PS, that's pastrami on that Woody Allen with the cb. I've been to the Carnegie.

Of course, it's pastrami. That's what makes it the Woody Allen.

Perhaps you've been in Cincy so long that you don't know what corned beef looks like. That gives me my answer, right there.

[Wilson513]

Originally Posted by smoking357

I don't think you're a good judge of corned beef.



Well, you couldn't give me a name of such a place in Chicago. Do you have a name of one of these NYC places "where the owner's wife makes the cb"?



The end of the story is that you started commenting on something you don't know about.



Of course, it's pastrami. That's what makes it the Woody Allen.

Perhaps you've been in Cincy so long that you don't know what corned beef looks like. That gives me my answer, right there.

Your personalization of this is childish. You put up a photo of an assembly line sandwich from a place that serves 100,000 of them a year to people with low standards and I showed you what real cb looks like. It has to be well marbled. It has to be hand cut. It has to be on real bread. I'm sure that place in the Land of Cleves does a real good job for making a sandwich every 25 seconds and making brisket 100 at a time. But it is no match for a sandwich made by loving hands of a deli owner. Izzy used to be that man. PErhaps there was a Mr. Slyman. Today, no more. Live with it.

[Wilson513]

Originally Posted by Sarah Perry

Back to Cincinnati for a moment: I remember the real Izzy, the real deli, and the real food. Even accounting for the Good Old Days filter effect, I don't see any resemblance to the current chain beyond the name. Am I to take it that no one has a Cincinnati area alternative to Izzy's to suggest?

Yea, sadly, that's the truth. I'd go anywhere at lunch time today for a good corned beef, but where would it be? I'm going to try the new NY Deli at Beechmont and Corbly but my expectations for the place are low.

[5Lakes]

Originally Posted by wilson1010

I choose Chicago for really good cb, at least that's where I have had my best sandwiches.

Cleveland does corn beef way better than Chicago. Chicago is not all that great of a deli town, although there are a few good places around. On the other hand there are tons of neighborhood joints all over Cleveland that have it.

[Wilson513]

OK, Let's put these photos up again and see what we have.





I think a picture is worth a thousand words.

[smoking357]

Originally Posted by wilson1010

You put up a photo of an assembly line sandwich from a place that serves 100,000 of them a year to people with low standards and I showed you what real cb looks like.

You're wrong, really wrong. You showed you don't know what corned beef looks like and that you spend too much time watching When Harry Met Sally.

Just let it go. I got what I needed to know. Cincy isn't a corned beef town.

[Wilson513]

I'm looking at the photos and my eyes don't lie. Your sandwich is just lame and generic and nothing can be said except maybe they make a better sandwich than you chose to put up.

You're right about one thing though. Cincinnati is just not a corned beef town.

[smoking357]

By the way, Wilson, you discussed those NYC places "where the owner's wife makes the cb," and you were asked for a name of just one.

Still waiting.