Pastrami Piled High on Rye Along Coney Island Avenue
Order thick-cut pastrami and corned beef combos at a deli where each sandwich arrives stacked past the rye.
🥪 Built on Pastrami and Rye
Essen NY Deli holds down a stretch of Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn, a wide dining room lined with black and white photographs of old Coney Island rides and boardwalk crowds. The sandwiches carry the room. Pastrami and corned beef pile onto rye until the bread can barely close, and a combo lands split into two heavy halves. The pastrami plate arrives with a fat pickle spear, a cup of au jus, and a mound of coleslaw crowding the rim, a full deli spread on one plate. Grilled chicken comes on toasted ciabatta next to a tangle of battered onion rings, and glazed short rib falls apart over a bed of fries. Regulars rate it 4.5 across more than 1,400 reviews, a steady figure for a deli this far from the tourist blocks. Settle into a wooden booth under the old amusement park prints, share a platter, and let the afternoon run long.
