Ordered their pizza and came back the next day to try their sandwich and their food is really good
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Boneless Wings, Wings
Linguist Kornfilt
Parking: The sandwiches are excellent and very generous. It is difficult in Syracuse to find a good pastrami sandwich, and I don’t know of any other place that offers tongue, which is particularly good here. The soups change daily and the varieties I have had here were all very good. In addition to the dessert list, they offer outstanding baklava.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Rye Bread, Old Fashioned Chicken Noodle Soup with Matzah Ball, Tongue, Pastrami Sandwich
Byrdmania
Ordered a take out Pastrami sub with provolone, peppers, onions. Decent taste, but skimpy amatuerly prepared luke warm ingredients on a flimsy 10" roll. With tax....$21 and some change. Every extra ingredient costs extra. Deli is a weird setup. Everything is high so you can't see anything being prepared. Refrigerated salads and other items look like they're a week old, or more. Sticky floors?. Not a nice presentation by any means. Same carp that was there before it reopened under a different name. Never again. Terrible. Go elsewhere.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 2
Sarah Ruhlen
We stopped in for a quick bite and had borscht that was out of this world! Bone broth, plenty of onions, rich and satisfying. We got a quart to take home. The owner gave us a sample of the pizza, which is NY style, homemade crust, homemade toppings - wowza, it's good. Definitely coming back soon!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Sharon Elmer
We ordered delivery. We ordered 2 potato knishes and a corned beef and pastrami combo sandwich. Delicious and filling.
Food: 5
Service: 5
Danielle Grenga
First time ordering from here. Pizza was good. There was a mix up and they rectified it with going above and beyond. Thank you ?
Food: 4
Service: 5
Clare Bear
Not good pizza was not cooked wings barely had any sauce on them I don’t recommend.
Megan Leffew
Empire Pizza and Deli is absolutely amazing. The owners, staff and food all on point! Will definitely be returning!! Their corned beef is the best I've ever had!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Delaura B.
We drive by here often so today we decided to give it a try. Unfortunately we are very very disappointed. When I called to place my order, the employee on the other line sounded like they were super far away. It was already hard to understand due to the accent, but it didn't help that I couldn't even hear them. I ordered a large deep dish pizza, a grilled chicken caesar salad and 10 wings. They told me I couldn't have wings because they just sold all of them, that was fine, until the employee said they actually had 5 left so they asked if I wanted them and I said yes (again we were trying this place for the first time!) I was told because they only had a few left I wouldn't have to pay for the wings....I was totally okay with paying for them since they are what I wanted but hey I won't pass up free food! I go to pick up my food and gosh I was disappointed. It was so dirty! The food on the counters looked like they had been sitting there for weeks. Pasta salad, egg salad, potato salad, veggies... it all was crusty and looked hard. It honestly looked like it had been there for weeks! And it was so dirty, like the area around had never been wiped and cleaned..ever!! I had paid anyways and the employee who cashed me out said the pizza was a little darker and asked if that was okay, I said yes it was fine. I cash out, get my things and go to my car. When I got to my car I checked the pizza, it wasn't even deep dish! It was just a regular pizza with super thin crust! It was a little darker but that wasn't an issue for me. I checked the salad, it was not at all a grilled chicken caesar salad! It was just some lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber and grilled chicken and there wasn't even any dressing! I ended up using the blue cheese that came with the pizza and wings. The wings were disgusting! They weren't even cut correctly, they were still full together. They look undercooked and looked so unappetizing. Not to mention I checked the bill after and they did charge me for 6 wings!!! With all of this being said, this place is just gross and so unclean, I will not be going back. After seeing the food when I picked up my order I shouldn't have even got the food but I wanted to give them a shot and all I can say is I am so so disappointed. I think they should get a health inspector in there because it didn't seem healthy, safe or clean.
Ali B.
Really good food. The people who work there are always welcoming. I love that you can eat in or take out
Not a great experience and I wish we had known they had new ownership before we tried it based on good reviews from the past few years. The entire place was empty when we came in on a Saturday afternoon and that should've been our first sign that something was off. The deli area was not stocked or neat like old reviews had shown. We ordered and the guys were friendly and kind. It didn't seem like they were well-versed on the menu offerings but they did have a hiring sign up so maybe they were new. We had planned on eating in until we went into the dining room to sit. The tables were filthy and dusty. Nothing had been wiped down and there were random old bottles, napkins on some tables. We ended up changing our orders to go. The sandwiches themselves were very underwhelming. I got a pastrami Rueben on dark rye. They made it on wheat bread and didn't say anything about the swap. That alone changed the whole profile of the sandwhich and it didn't help that the pastrami lacked flavor. My husband had a Philly cheese steak combo sandwhich what also had minimum flavor. For the price and "deli" experience we were expecting at least decent sandwiches. I could've grabbed deli meat from the store and had a better lunch. We definitely won't be back and I hope other people see my review and know that the place has drastically changed compared to other past reviews when they had different owners.
Trevenon Vanleuvan
Very, very slow I watched the cook. Drop food on the floor a Burger and put it back on the grill and put dead lettuce on my sandwich and French fries. Taste like the oil was dirty.And the bacon was raw.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Timothy Clifford
The worst piece of pizza I have ever attempted to eat . The Deli case was full of meat that looked like it was there forever. Salads all crusted over.I should have walked out like the guy in front of me but I thought I'd try .Employees were friendly.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 5
Larry B.
This was one of the weirdest restaurant experiences that we ever had. My wife ordered a Bagel and Nova and the waiter brought her a cheeseburger on wheat toast. Not sure how Nova sounds like cheeseburger.The rest of the food was ok but it's definitely not a New York Deli.
Steven Zadora
The pastrami rueben is amazing.......the only thing I didn't see on the menu was French fries.
Ordered their pizza and came back the next day to try their sandwich and their food is really good
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Boneless Wings, Wings
Parking: The sandwiches are excellent and very generous. It is difficult in Syracuse to find a good pastrami sandwich, and I don’t know of any other place that offers tongue, which is particularly good here. The soups change daily and the varieties I have had here were all very good. In addition to the dessert list, they offer outstanding baklava.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Rye Bread, Old Fashioned Chicken Noodle Soup with Matzah Ball, Tongue, Pastrami Sandwich
Ordered a take out Pastrami sub with provolone, peppers, onions. Decent taste, but skimpy amatuerly prepared luke warm ingredients on a flimsy 10" roll. With tax....$21 and some change. Every extra ingredient costs extra. Deli is a weird setup. Everything is high so you can't see anything being prepared. Refrigerated salads and other items look like they're a week old, or more. Sticky floors?. Not a nice presentation by any means. Same carp that was there before it reopened under a different name. Never again. Terrible. Go elsewhere.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 2
We stopped in for a quick bite and had borscht that was out of this world! Bone broth, plenty of onions, rich and satisfying. We got a quart to take home. The owner gave us a sample of the pizza, which is NY style, homemade crust, homemade toppings - wowza, it's good. Definitely coming back soon!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We ordered delivery. We ordered 2 potato knishes and a corned beef and pastrami combo sandwich. Delicious and filling.
Food: 5
Service: 5
First time ordering from here. Pizza was good. There was a mix up and they rectified it with going above and beyond. Thank you ?
Food: 4
Service: 5
Not good pizza was not cooked wings barely had any sauce on them I don’t recommend.
Empire Pizza and Deli is absolutely amazing. The owners, staff and food all on point! Will definitely be returning!! Their corned beef is the best I've ever had!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We drive by here often so today we decided to give it a try. Unfortunately we are very very disappointed. When I called to place my order, the employee on the other line sounded like they were super far away. It was already hard to understand due to the accent, but it didn't help that I couldn't even hear them. I ordered a large deep dish pizza, a grilled chicken caesar salad and 10 wings. They told me I couldn't have wings because they just sold all of them, that was fine, until the employee said they actually had 5 left so they asked if I wanted them and I said yes (again we were trying this place for the first time!) I was told because they only had a few left I wouldn't have to pay for the wings....I was totally okay with paying for them since they are what I wanted but hey I won't pass up free food! I go to pick up my food and gosh I was disappointed. It was so dirty! The food on the counters looked like they had been sitting there for weeks. Pasta salad, egg salad, potato salad, veggies... it all was crusty and looked hard. It honestly looked like it had been there for weeks! And it was so dirty, like the area around had never been wiped and cleaned..ever!! I had paid anyways and the employee who cashed me out said the pizza was a little darker and asked if that was okay, I said yes it was fine. I cash out, get my things and go to my car. When I got to my car I checked the pizza, it wasn't even deep dish! It was just a regular pizza with super thin crust! It was a little darker but that wasn't an issue for me. I checked the salad, it was not at all a grilled chicken caesar salad! It was just some lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber and grilled chicken and there wasn't even any dressing! I ended up using the blue cheese that came with the pizza and wings. The wings were disgusting! They weren't even cut correctly, they were still full together. They look undercooked and looked so unappetizing. Not to mention I checked the bill after and they did charge me for 6 wings!!! With all of this being said, this place is just gross and so unclean, I will not be going back. After seeing the food when I picked up my order I shouldn't have even got the food but I wanted to give them a shot and all I can say is I am so so disappointed. I think they should get a health inspector in there because it didn't seem healthy, safe or clean.
Really good food. The people who work there are always welcoming. I love that you can eat in or take out
Restaurantji Recommends
Not a great experience and I wish we had known they had new ownership before we tried it based on good reviews from the past few years. The entire place was empty when we came in on a Saturday afternoon and that should've been our first sign that something was off. The deli area was not stocked or neat like old reviews had shown. We ordered and the guys were friendly and kind. It didn't seem like they were well-versed on the menu offerings but they did have a hiring sign up so maybe they were new. We had planned on eating in until we went into the dining room to sit. The tables were filthy and dusty. Nothing had been wiped down and there were random old bottles, napkins on some tables. We ended up changing our orders to go. The sandwiches themselves were very underwhelming. I got a pastrami Rueben on dark rye. They made it on wheat bread and didn't say anything about the swap. That alone changed the whole profile of the sandwhich and it didn't help that the pastrami lacked flavor. My husband had a Philly cheese steak combo sandwhich what also had minimum flavor. For the price and "deli" experience we were expecting at least decent sandwiches. I could've grabbed deli meat from the store and had a better lunch. We definitely won't be back and I hope other people see my review and know that the place has drastically changed compared to other past reviews when they had different owners.
Very, very slow I watched the cook. Drop food on the floor a Burger and put it back on the grill and put dead lettuce on my sandwich and French fries. Taste like the oil was dirty.And the bacon was raw.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
The worst piece of pizza I have ever attempted to eat . The Deli case was full of meat that looked like it was there forever. Salads all crusted over.I should have walked out like the guy in front of me but I thought I'd try .Employees were friendly.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 5
This was one of the weirdest restaurant experiences that we ever had. My wife ordered a Bagel and Nova and the waiter brought her a cheeseburger on wheat toast. Not sure how Nova sounds like cheeseburger.The rest of the food was ok but it's definitely not a New York Deli.
The pastrami rueben is amazing.......the only thing I didn't see on the menu was French fries.