Ronnie Pastrami’s Deli & Catering

Ronnie Pastrami’s Deli & Catering sits along 66th Street North serving the kind of deli sandwiches that live up to a name built entirely around one of the most demanding sandwich meats to get right. Pastrami rewards a kitchen that takes curing and steaming seriously, and this counter service deli has built its reputation on generous, well stacked sandwiches, pastrami, corned beef, and Reuben varieties among them, that draw customers who know what a proper deli sandwich should taste like and refuse to settle for less. The dining room is large and clean, built for a steady lunch crowd ordering at the counter rather than waiting on table service, which keeps the pace quick even when the room fills up around noon.

Beyond the signature pastrami, the menu includes homemade soups made in house rather than reheated from a bag, a detail that separates a real deli from a sandwich shop simply assembling cold cuts between bread. Side salads round out the plates, and the portions consistently draw comments from customers for their generosity, the kind of value that keeps a lunch counter in steady rotation for nearby office workers and residents rather than being treated as an occasional splurge. Weekday hours run from midmorning into midafternoon, a schedule built entirely around the lunch rush rather than trying to cover dinner service as well, and the shop stays closed on Sundays.

Catering is a significant part of the business alongside the counter service, with the deli putting together trays and packages for offices, parties, and family gatherings around Pinellas Park. That catering side matters for an independent deli’s bottom line, since it supplements the daily lunch trade with larger orders that can carry the business through slower stretches, and it also means Ronnie Pastrami’s sandwiches show up well beyond the dining room, at meetings and celebrations throughout the surrounding community.

For a directory of independent, locally owned Pinellas Park food and drink businesses, Ronnie Pastrami’s Deli & Catering represents a classic and increasingly hard to find category, the genuine New York style delicatessen serving a proper pastrami sandwich outside of a big city deli district. It is a straightforward, no nonsense lunch spot built around doing a small handful of things, pastrami chief among them, exceptionally well.

The counter itself moves briskly through the noon rush, staffed by people who clearly know their regulars’ usual orders, and the dining area gives customers room to actually sit and enjoy a sandwich rather than eating standing up or rushing back to a car. For anyone in Pinellas Park missing the deli culture of a bigger northern city, Ronnie Pastrami’s offers a genuine, unpretentious taste of that tradition.