Pastrami, corned beef, and tongue on rye.

I won’t deny it: there are some things about New York that I really miss. One of them is having a good deli sandwich. A sandwich with more meat than bread, which is remarkably rare west of the Mississippi.

That’s why I was thrilled when my friend Cheryl suggested Chompy’s in Scottsdale for lunch the day I came to visit her. Finally! I could treat myself to a good deli sandwich.

This is HALF of a corned beef, pastrami, and tongue on rye sandwich. I ordered it with a cup of excellent matzo ball soup.

The last time I had a sandwich this good, I was in a kosher deli on Manhattan’s lower east side. Memories!

Added bonus: the hostess was from Brooklyn and I could clearly hear it in her voice. In fact, she looked and sounded just like the actress Constance Zimmer in her Boston Legal TV show role.