Order the Any 4 Meat Combination Sandwich at 3G's Gourmet Deli and you get a sandwich you have to plan your grip around. Corned beef, pastrami, brisket, roast beef, turkey, Hebrew National salami or bologna, pick any four and they stack it on rye without a word about whether that's too much. Tongue is extra, and the regulars order it. Before it arrives, rye bread and a bowl of pickles land on the table, which is the moment you realize this is not a South Florida deli doing a New York impression.

What You're Getting Into

The combination sandwiches are the headline: any two, three or four meats. Every sandwich comes with homemade cole slaw or potato salad and a pickle, on your choice of rye, roll, challah, wheat or white.

If you want the sandwich they're actually known for, it's The New Yorker: hot corned beef and hot pastrami together with imported Swiss, slaw and Russian dressing. The Grilled Reuben and its pastrami sister the Grilled Rachel both arrive with fries and slaw.

Around the sandwiches is a full deli, not a shortened version of one. There's matzo ball soup, and homemade potato pancakes that come with sour cream and applesauce. Chopped liver, egg salad, whitefish, sable, herring, kasha varnishkas and Carnegie Deli knishes are all on there. Breakfast runs from 9am to 3pm and the omelettes are built with four extra large eggs, which is why people keep describing them as gigantic.

The Insider Move

Two things most first-timers miss. From 11am to 3pm there's a dine-in-only lunch board with a mini sandwich and a bowl of soup, and reviewers keep pointing out that the mini has enough meat in it to pass for a full sandwich anywhere else. And from noon to 8pm, dinner is not just an entree. It includes an appetizer, two side dishes, dessert, a beverage and a free glass of Woodbridge wine or a bottled beer, dine in only. One more: coffee or tea is free from 9am to 11am with any breakfast.

What People Are Saying

3G's carries 669 reviews on Yelp and a Met Inspection Standards health score. PBS's Check Please! South Florida featured it in Season 22, where the guest making the recommendation said the service, portion size and quality could not be beat. Google reviewers land on the same three things over and over: the rye bread, the brisket, and soup that tastes like someone's grandmother made it. The honest counterpoint, and it comes up regularly, is that the prices are high. Most reviewers decide the portions justify it. Go in knowing that and you won't be surprised by the check.

Quick Context

Bruce Garnett's father owned a deli, Bruce joined after college and turned it into a family business, and they opened this Delray location in 1986. That makes 2026 year 40 on the same stretch of West Atlantic. It's a Jewish-style deli, not kosher, and it's also a bakery and a caterer.

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