Eisenberg's

174 5th Avenue, NY, NY 10010

Rating: 2 - Super Happy
Visit #: 4
In Brief: There are few places left in the city that are as delightfully old-school as Eisenberg's. They're famous for their tuna melt, and we're partial to their fried bologna sandwich on rye.

You can only get the vegetarian vegetable soup on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays so lucky me to try it today. It's exactly as I thought, a generic broth base with every vegetable under the sun thrown in there. I'm pretty sure I saw cauliflower, broccoli, corn, mushrooms, carrots, zucchini, potatoes and green beans, just to mention a few. But the real reason we went to Eisenberg's was for the pastrami and egg sandwich featured on Serious Eats just a few days ago. Ours came out in more of an omelet scramble, and it wasn't bad, but we were really hoping for fluffy eggs accompanied by pastrami.