Brooklyn Boys Deli Closes Down


The first of what promises to be many mobile-food-truck closures has come to OC. (That's not a dig on food trucks, but an application of the success average for bricks-and-mortar restaurants to the mobile culinary industry.) Brooklyn Boys Deli, which served pastrami sandwiches and New York-style hot dogs, has shuttered, citing the poor economy.
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I'd had the pleasure of eating there one night at the Bruery, and was trying to wangle another visit in order to be able to write about it here on Stick a Fork In It. Their pastrami was definitely better than California-style places like The Hat, though not nearly up to Langer's or Katz's standard.

The $10 price, which included two sides and a drink, was a stone-cold bargain compared to OC's other pastrami maven, Katella Deli, but apparently double-digits are the kiss of death for a mobile-food vendor. We'll make sure to tell Mariscos Ruben, whose $15 scallop plate is the best mobile seafood I've had in this county.

In the meantime, live vicariously through my one experience with the truck:



Totally worth $10. What a shame.

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