Morning View - Katz's Delicatessen

Non-Gothamites will know Katz's Delicatessen as the restaurant where Meg Ryan staged her famous faked orgasm in When Harry Met Sally. "I'll have what she's having." Get to Katz's for their famous one-pound pastrami-on-rye, where "requests for mayo are made at your peril." NY Times critic Frank Bruni gave the ancient joint a rave last year and managed to get in a hilarious dig at the same time: "It’s been around, after all, since 1888. That’s longer than Cindy Adams." Mee-ow.

According to restaurant lore, Katz's brought about the end of WWII via their "Send A Salami To Your Boy In The Army" promotion. When GI's ran out of live shells, they fired old Katz's salamis at the enemy, causing them to surrender en masse when they were overcome with the deliciousness.