Greenblatt's Deli and Wine Shop
by Nina Silver
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Greenblatt's Deli and Wine Shop
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Nina Silver
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Photograph - Digital Photograph
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This photo was taken in October, 2018. After 95 years in the restaurant business, Greenblatt's had its last day serving customers on August 11, 2021.
Greenblatt’s was founded in 1926 by Herman Greenblatt, back when Sunset Boulevard was still a dirt road. The Kavin family acquired the business in the 1940s and then owned it for three generations. According to its website, celebrities from Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando to Errol Flynn and Billie Holiday were regular customers. Former Gourmet Magazine critic Colman Andrews called Greenblatts’s the “best pastrami in the country” while actor Halle Berry told Esquire Magazine that it was her “favorite deli...that houses the best wine in the city.”
The tagline for Greenblatt’s used to be, “the wine merchant that fronts as a deli,” referring to the restaurant’s extensive collection of vintage and affordable wines that customers could open for a small fee in the ground floor or upstairs dining rooms. The dining room at Greenblatt’s had been closed for at least a year and a half due to the pandemic and reopened its dining room just a few months before its closing. Because of its proximity to late night clubs and comedy venues, Greenblatt’s had always been open until late, often until 2 a.m.
I'm glad I captured this image when I did, in 2018.
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January 19th, 2022
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