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With dishes like antelope, kangaroo and scallop skirts, Foxface Natural offers plenty for diners on a hunt for the unusual.

S&P, the successor to Eisenberg’s, currently charges just $16 for its pastrami sandwich

The origin of pastrami remains something of a mystery. Most accounts will tell you it was directly inspired by the preserved meat called basturma, a lean cut of air-dried beef, which was spread throughout Eastern Europe by the Ottoman Empire over the centuries and then brought to America by Romanian-Jewish immigrants who arrived between 1881 and 1914. There’s no doubt the word pastrami is a cognate of basturma, but there the resemblance ends. In contrast with its dry, thinner-sliced cousin...