Quite an experience! Kind of one of those things t...

Quite an experience! Kind of one of those things that you have to do at least once just cos it's so iconic to New York! Expect there to be a line! We were there at before 3 and had to wait for over 30min. It's an interesting system, you queue, get given a ticket, then line up again at each of the slicing stations. Put through your order (try to decide beforehand), before they start preparing they'll slice a little of the meat for you test! Kind of an interesting and fun little quirk! Once you get your sandwich (I recommend getting half pastrami and half corned beef so you get to try both!! ), take back the ticket (the food preparer would have noted the total price on it) you find yourself a table. Don't lose the ticket!! Apparently it's $50 to replace! Not sure whether it's true but that's what the sign says. One sandwich will easily feed two people! We were not v hungry and us two girls only managed at most a bit more than half. There's loads of meat. The corned beef has more flavour cos it's slight saltier but pastrami was more tender. I'm not massive meat eater but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Once you're done with your meal you head back towards the entrance to pay if you're settling in cash. Otherwise there's another cashier towards the back of the restaurant if you're paying by card. Worth checking out! Russ and Daughters is just down the street so you can easily smash both in the one go (which is what we did)!! Enjoy!!