In its location for decades, this would have been, as it is today, your quality deli.
They may have been supplied by the same purveyors with little to distinguish between them, but some were more discriminating in their purchasing, the quality delis of their day.
"Quality New York deli meats come at a high price," Mr. Singer said.
San Francisco's Mission District is not the most obvious place to look for a quality Jewish deli.
For better value – but equal quality – hit up the deli counter upstairs.
Despite its odd name -- the bar is a small counter where people wait for tables, and there is takeout but no deli -- the no-fuss, high-quality feel of the place has been a welcome eye-opener for Dublin diners accustomed to high prices and middling service elsewhere.
15 Blackfriars Street, 0131 556 6922; edinburghlarder.co.uk There are sexier (and more expensive) deli-cafes, but Broughton demonstrates its quality where it matters – on the plate – while offering more variety than most.
Just three blocks south, the owner of an all-night Exxon gas station and deli told the tale of a different quality-of-life problem -- one that police administrators acknowledge is worrisome.
(The group had already stopped at Fiore's House of Quality, on Adams Street, another Italian deli noted for its mozzarella).
You can buy quality tortillas at good grocers and delis.
David Abrahams, a lifelong New Yorker and coffee drinker who brews high-quality coffee at home and drinks deli coffee at lunch, made a pot of Kudo Select the other day, after a friend gave him a pound of beans.
