Morry's Deli

I've only been here once and don't plan to return. On the recommendation of a friend, I got a corned beef, and was surprised to find a big pile of bland-ish corned beef on mushy bread, with a bit of mustard. No veggies and the mustard was a bit flavorless. I think Hyde Park needs a better deli!

Quick and clean looking but nothing to write HOME about.

On a short visit to Hyde Park on 10/25/2012, I walked the neighborhood and stopped in. I ordered a pastrami sandwich on onion bread with sliced onions, cheddar (resembled sun tanned Swiss cheese) and mustard. I have eaten many sandwiches in my lifetime and this is way at the bottom of the scale. The place is not very clean and the menu is confusing (extra cost for onions, peppers, etc. ~ huh?). I live in the SF Bay area with plenty of amazing sandwich joints. But this one makes me wonder why people eat sandwiches at all.

The bread was dry and suspiciously stale (did anyone check the expiration date prior to making my sandwich?). The pastrami that was lukewarm to my palate tasted like day old bacon, was extremely thin and proportionally small. It was also expensive ($8.99). If University of Chicago students do not eat there very much, then our educational system is truly working because they obviously know more than the rest of us that visited there.

I walked across the street to Cornell Park, took one bite and fed the reminder of my sandwich to an awful skinny squirrel with an obvious eating disorder.