Best deli EVER, just like the olden days:
Marky's, at Wilson & Bathurst, in Toronto
My favorite is Shapiro and Fine on the West Side in NYC.
Forgive me...I remember it as Shapiro and Fine. But it is incredible. If I didn't have a pastrami and cole slaw on rye (with thousand island dressing) at least once a week...I felt weak at the knees.
Heaven on earth!!!
What about Schwartz's in Montreal? Nothing in TO beats that.
Schwartz's, in Montreal. When Japanese businessmen order jets to deliver their pastrami same-day to a business meeting thousands of miles away, paying tens of thousands of dollars for delivery of a meal that only costs a few hundred, you know it's damn fine.
I am also partial to Yitz's, in Toronto. Though I feel its quality has gone down in the last while.