Good sandwiches. Smallish portions. Decent rings. Boring dill pickle. Cliched NYC décor, but unusual for NOLA. No parking, crowded curbs. Fast and friendly. Great selection. I liked my reuben though hair dry (ask for extra Russian). 09. ...

Empire State has some of the best sandwiches in New Orleans. Our office eats here for lunch at least once a week. They have a great variety of sandwiches that you will not find anywhere else. The BBQ Beef Brisket hero is phenomenal. ...

Okay, I didn't tip when I ordered, but I was getting it to go and didn't think (and still don't) that I should have to. We'll they stuck it to me. My sandwich was burned. And not just a little over done, but BLACK. They burned the peperoni, salami, etc black on both sides so that it was fused together, then put it on a po-boy with no mayo, mustard, NOTHING. It was a DRY BLACKENED Italion Station and since I ordered it to go, it wasn't until 5 blocks away that I found out how bad it was. I thought, okay ,I didn't tip and so I deserve this and ate the thing (thank God I work where there is a cafeteria so I could wash the taste out of my mouth when I was done. BUT the something occured that got me to take the time to write this. I said as i was eating this meal of HATE/SPITE that I had had bad food before but never had a meal that was truely made bad out of spite. Well they took it to another level. My meal, and I use that term loosely, cost $9.25 (and again I ...