“For many of us, Barney’s Pastrami Dip will be a revelation housed in a gritty little storefront,” Herald news editor Mark Carlson wrote in a 2009 dining review. Patrons stepped up to the counter in suits and coveralls. “They still come to the door looking for him,” Brooks said.īarney’s had a loyal following. In front of the high counter, where Barney sliced and spiced, a banner reads, “Tantalizing, mouthwatering, delicious on a hoagie roll, $10.45.”Ĭustomers continue to be hopeful about getting a hoagie. The dining room still looks much the same. The shop’s phone number has a recorded message as if the place is open. “I had somebody say they’ve seen him in Everett.” “If you reach him, tell him I’d really like to talk to him,” Brooks said.
Brooks said he is sorry that he had to take action and that he wants Barney to be able to get his belongings. Court records show an eviction order was filed in August. It said, ‘I’ll call you Friday.’”īrooks said he cleaned out the freezer after neighbors complained about the odor of old pastrami. And I only got him to answer one of my messages once. “We gave him a grace period and tried to contact him. “He just kind of left us high and dry about a year ago,” Brooks said. Those dining in could listen to Barney break out in fragments of song. On the counter, a cluster of sticky sauce bottles. The disheveled dining room was a mash of plastic lawn chairs at four tables with plastic tablecloths, plastic salt-and-pepper shakers at the ready. On the walls, dozens of photos of celebrities he renamed Barney with name tags created a universe where Marilyn Monroe was Marilyn Barney, Albert Einstein was Albert Barney, and so on. EVERETT - David Barney has left the building, and he left about 50 Barney namesakes behind.īarney’s Pastrami Dip, the quirky deli with the quirky sandwich artist, is cuisine history.īarney, who ran the place solo, would at times close his eatery for short spells due to illness or injury.Ī court-approved eviction notice can be seen on the window at 5130 Evergreen Way, next to Northwest Camera Repair in the small plaza at the 52nd Street SE intersection.īarney, in his late 70s with fluffy white hair and a mustache, was a one-man pastrami show, steaming the thin pink meat and piling it on buns lathered with mustard, ringing orders with Fox News chiming in the background.
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