Essex Street Deli

I just made a Unilocal acct. just to write a review about essex house. This place is horrible from the service right to the pastrami. There are new owners and it shows. My friend had the corned beef, tasteless. The sandwiches are all bread. The pea soup was great. After that all downhill. Save your time and money. The pastrami by the way tased like it was microwaved.

Finally got around to trying this place for breakfast. Walked in and were told to seat ourselves. went to a table and was immediately approached with a gentleman pouring coffee. Silverware was in roll up paper napkin and not wiped down. Coffee mugs were placed on a bread plate. Milk on table was in an open container and had an ant floating in it. Waitress came over and told us it was only a crumb and promptly replaced. Went downhill from there as the waitstaff held a bitch session just to the left of our table as there were four of them and people were sitting whever they wanted and tables were not being split up properly. After that we had two different people try to wait on us. Service was good after that and constant coffee being poured. Food was totally unremarkable and for 7.95 per plate — not anything I’d go back for. Much better breakfasts in this area.

We went in here for an early dinner, that’s why I did not pay attention that the place was empty except 2 of us and another guy, we ordered brisket and it was dried; chicken pot pie and there were maybe 4 cubes of chicken in it swimming in a sticky thick sauce… What a waste of time and money… the only thing tasted decent was the cake they gave me at last.