• Pastrami is a favorite menu item in New York restaurants.Pastrami and salad sandwich image by Sophia Winters from Fotolia.com
  
  Pastrami is a featured item on most delicatessen menus. Made of beef, this sandwich meat is either dried or wet-cured, a process which involves adding spices such as garlic and cloves and smoking the meat. Pastrami can be served hot or cold and can be spicy and salty as well as tender. New York features an almost endless number and types of places to eat, including restaurants and delis that specialize in pastrami.
  
  

Pastrami King

• Pastrami King is located in Merrick, a small community on Long Island. The 200-seat restaurant offers catering and includes a retail shop and separate room for private events. Diners can enjoy what the restaurant claims is the "best pastrami in the world," which is prepared on-site by pickling, adding spices, then smoking and steaming the meat. Diners can also enjoy overstuffed sandwiches, gourmet salads, pasta, fish, burgers and steaks. Other menu items include stuffed cabbage and kasha varnishkes appetizers, noodle pudding and frankfurter side dishes, and matzo ball and kreplach soups. Pastrami King also offers a kids' menu with items such as chicken fingers, grilled cheese sandwiches and French fries. Pastrami King also serves a variety of desserts including cakes, pies, puddings, cheesecake, strudels and rugelach. The restaurant is open daily.
  
  Pastrami King
  
  196 Merrick Rd.
  
  Merrick, NY 11566
  
  516-378-5464
  
  pastramiking.com
  
  

Pastrami N Friends

• Pastrami N Friends is a restaurant and kosher deli in Commack, New York, on Long Island. The restaurant also offers catering. Diners can choose from soups, salads, sandwiches, appetizers, wraps and hot and deli platters. In addition to pastrami sandwiches and platters, diners can enjoy brisket, corned beef, salami, bologna, turkey and egg salad sandwiches. Also on the menu are beef mushroom barley soup, chopped liver platter, deli omelet sandwich and overstuffed sandwiches that combine different ingredients such as pastrami, liver and tongue. For dessert the restaurant offers traditional items such as cake, pudding, cookies and brownies as well as baked apples and citrus salad. Pastrami N Friends is open during lunch and dinner daily.
  
  Pastrami N Friends
  
  110 A Commack Rd.
  
  Commack, NY 11725
  
  631-499-9537
  
  pastraminfriends.com
  
  

Pastrami Queen

• Pastrami Queen offers dine-in meals, delivery service and catered dishes. When diners order a sandwich, they can choose overstuffed, a royal size combo or a triple-decker. Sandwich choices include pastrami, center or tip tongue, roast beef or turkey, corned beef, salami and tuna or egg salad. Other items available include burgers, soups, salads, appetizers and desserts. Diners can also get dinners such as broiled Roumanian steak, schnitzel cutlet and tongue polonaise and platters with salad, meat or sandwiches. Pastrami Queen is open seven days a week.
  
  Pastrami Queen
  
  1125 Lexington Ave.
  
  New York, NY 10075
  
  212-734-1500
  
  pastramiqueen.com