Thank you for flagging this, Jack. This list badly needs an update – and a rethinking.

Now the most expensive salt beef sandwich in London (june 2022). A small thin sandwich on thin rye is 5P short of £10. A so called ‘large’ is 5P short of £15. A gherkin (pickle) on the side is an extra £1. If you want to sit down to eat it, you have to order it through an unsmiling Eastern European waitress for which their is a high service charge. With a coffee and small sandwich expect to pay the best part of £20.

Glad to read this review of a dish that some times isn’t made as it should be. Unfortunately as pointed out it needs to be a venue with sufficient turnover for freshness. So right that many places fail on the bread which should be fairly firm enough.

AK – Deli West One, the maker of London’s best kosher salt beef, has closed. As such the only one I can recommend – and it is with withstrained enthusiasm – is Reubens.

Here’s a good recipe for slat beef or what New Yorker’s call corned beef. But be sure to read the end note. If you want a pink colour you have to add saltpetre to the brine. And it’s not dangerous, as the author suggests. Add about 40 grams of saltpetre.

Thanks.

Thanks for the tip. I will try to stop by to Silvermans Sunday salt beef bar. I must say the photo on a salt beef sandwich on their website does not look promising.