That is definitely the wrong bread. Good recommendation. A very good sandwich. Loved the smokey pastrami which was basically brisket. Pickles were great and cole slaw was great.
The bread was fine. I expect Langer’s quality rye whenever I’m eating pastrami.
Total aside but there was a lady eating by herself who ordered a regular meal and a kids meal. Who cares you say? Thursday is kids eat free at Mendocino Farms. This lady ordered up herself a free kids meal. I thought that was kinda janky.
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Yeah, but she could have ordered it to go and no one would have been the wiser. I’ve seen it happen at other restaurants that do similar promos.
And wow, 2 meals at Mendocino – that’s a lot of food for one person!
You don’t say. I learn the best things here on FTC… 
Well then you will be disappointed 90 percent of the time. I HOPE for Langer’s quality rye when eating pastrami but never expect it.
That’s why I rarely eat pastrami, unless it’s from Langers. Wexlers once in a blue moon.
Pro tip for Wexler’s: Ask for your pastrami on a crispy kaiser roll. So much better than their rye.
I love a good Kaiser roll and I kill for great pastrami, but the two together doesn’t do it for me. Just too much a creature of habit I guess. I like putting ketchup on a hot dog. YMMV certainly.
Has anyone tried the Pastrami you can buy at costco?
salty but if you’re searching for a “hat” style pastrami w/o going to the hat, it’s workable. I’d buy it again.
I think the rye has definitely improved, at least at the Santa Monica location. I haven’t had GCM location in a while, so I don’t know about there or Century City.
Too bad the pastrami hasn’t. 
Just this Jew’s opinion.
You’re all just a bunch of haters and traitors to the KAISER!
Kaiser uber rolles …
Oh, glad you clarified. 'Cuz for a second there I thought you meant Kaiser Permanente,
I picked up a couple of pounds of Langer’s pastrami and half a loaf of rye to take home the other day, and realized that another element contributing to their superiority is that the bread has way more caraway than most.
I tried the pastrami at the Century City location several wks/months ago and found it oddly… bland. As in, I don’t-feel-like-eating-here-again bland. Not sure if it was just a one-time thing, and I don’t recall thinking that about the DTLA or SaMo location.
And for what it’s worth, Mendocino’s pastrami is super bland too. I asked to sample some and it literally tasted like nothing. But this may be a one off.
That’s how mine was, like a bland overly smoked Texas brisket. Nothing like pastrami.
Personally, I will never eat here, nor any other Wexler‘s. No Point, I like Jewish pastrami, not this hipster stuff LOL!
My wife’s first ever pastrami sandwich was the #19. Langer’s will sell you all of the ingredients to make them at home.
