Canter's

Canter's

Infobox Restaurant
name = Canter's Deli


image_width = 300px
image_caption = Canter's Deli at night
established = 1924
current-owner =
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food-type = Jewish delicatessen
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rating =
street-address = 419 North Fairfax Avenue
city = Los Angeles
state = California
zip = 90036
country = United States
seating-capacity =
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other-locations = yes
other-information =
website = [http://www.cantersdeli.com/ - Official website]

Canter's Deli is a famous Jewish delicatessen in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, California, near the border of West Hollywood.

The Canter family originally opened up a delicatessen in Jersey City in 1924. They came west along with many Jews from the northeastern United States in the early 1940s, and opened a delicatessen in the Boyle Heights neighborhood, which at that time had a substantialJewish population. After World War II, the Jewish population of Boyle Heights left en masse for the Fairfax District, West Hollywood, and other West Side neighborhoods (as well as the San Fernando Valley)and Canter's followed the influx of Jewish businesses west, converting a movie theater which had previously shown Yiddish-language films to a delicatessen much larger than its previous spaces.

Canter's quickly became a hangout for show business personalities, given its location and its late hours. It has remained such ever since. In the 1960s, Canter's became a late night hang out for hippies, rock musicians, and other countercultural types, partially for the same reasons. Also, many rock musicians had grown up in Fairfax and West Hollywood, and the Sunset Strip was only half a mile away. Canter's has remained a favorite of rock musicians to the present day, and is still open 24 hours as always. Canter's is open every day of the year except for the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

The bar in Canter's, called the Kibitz Room, has its own history and has been a favorite of music personalities.Even though the restaurant is open 24 hours, the Kibitz Room closes at 2 am. They have live music every night, and were the launch pad for plenty of bands, most notably the Wallflowers, Fiona Apple, and Rick Rubin's new project, the Vacation. The Big jam has had plenty of "A List" musicians sit in, including Phil Everly, Jackson Browne, Melissa Ethridge, and Marc Canter's high school friend Slash. [ [http://www.laweekly.com/music/music/guns-n-roses-appetite-for-pastrami/18485/ "Guns N' Roses: Appetite for Pastrami,"] LA Weekly, March 7, 2008.] Marc Canter, now the restaurant's owner, recently published a book about the early days of Guns N' Roses. [cite book | author=Canter, Marc|title=Reckless Road: Guns N' Roses and The Making of Appetite for Destruction| publisher= [http://www.recklessroad.com www.recklessroad.com ] | year=2007 | id=ISBN 978-0-9793418-7-8 ]

The restaurant has been featured in several movies and television shows, including HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm in the episode "The Blind Date". In 2007, Adam Stein, finalist on the fox tv show "On the Lot," filmed Dough: The Musical at Canter's.

In 2006, the restaurant and its namesake are used in a Carl's Jr. commercial for the PastramiBurger.

In 2003, Canter's opened an additional location inside Treasure Island Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Today, the restaurant is not certified kosher- the restaurant is open on Saturdays and offers many items on its menu which are not kosher or "treif" (e.g ham sandwiches).

Trivia

Canter's serves...
*4,900 lbs of Pastrami per month
*1,500 gallons of chicken soup are made per week
*4,000 knishes are made a weekCanter's is also prominently featured in Ann Patchett's novel, "The Magician's Assistant."

Celebrity Visitors

*Elvis Presley
*Danny Thomas
*Marilyn Monroe
*Arthur Miller
*Jack Benny
*Judy Garland
*Elizabeth Taylor
*Sidney Poitier
*Cary Grant
*Tom Leykis
*Mike Bumbeck
*Mel Brooks
*Wilt Chamberlain
*Charlene Tilton
*Brooke Shields
*Jacqueline Bisset
*Catherine Oxenberg
*John Travolta
*Prince
*Stevie Wonder
*Buddy Hacket
*Jerry Lewis
*Olivia Newton-John
*Muhammad Ali
*Monty Hall
*Bill Cosby
*David Brenner
*Rodney Dangerfield
*Jackson Browne
*Dick Van Dyke
*Patricia Arquette
*Shelley Winters
*Elizabeth Montgomery
*The Cars
*Slash
*Robert Redford
*Keith Moon
*Winona Ryder
*Phil Spector
*Brad Pitt
*River Phoenix
*Fiona Apple
*Lenny Kravitz
*Neil Diamond
*k.d. Lang
*Henry Winkler
*Greg Morris
*Rodney Bingenheimer
*Gene Simmons
*The Wallflowers
*Melissa Etheridge
*Johnny Depp
*Madonna
*Nicolas Cage
* Preston
*David Lee Roth
*Jonah Hill
*Jason Alexander
*Frank Zappa
*Adam Brody
*Rachel Bilson

References

External links

* [http://www.cantersdeli.com/ - Official website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/cantersdeli - Official MySpace page]


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