Best CHEAP takeout

carmen · July 2006

Quality and quantity- I'm totally overwhelmed with all the options in Park Slope and need some guidance- we're lookin at less than $8, pref. with leftovers to bring to work for lunch the next day

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go!

campy · July 2006

That's soooooo broad. Where do you live (how far is too far?), what type of food do you like?

carmen · July 2006

it is broad! cause I want the bestest deals

I live on Lincoln at 7th, would prefer something in the area or on 7th but for a good deal i'll walk. I'm an omnivore and dont care about organic or vegan or any of that. I care about decent portion sizes and something that tastes yummy for less than $8 ($5 would be ideal!)

snootyusher · July 2006

the "leftover" clause is pretty tough, but here are some options for dinner which i myself frequent:

you live right next to Lemongrass grill, a Thai place (walk 1 block down on 7th)...you can get stuff for 9 or 10 bucks and you will not finish it, especially the noodle dishes. they cram so much stuff into those containers, it's incredibly densely packed.

taro sushi on dean b/w 5th & flatbush has a $9 3-roll sushi deal which is good, but you don't want sushi leftovers for pretty obvious reasons. but you will be very full off of this so consider this option a "treat"!

antonio's on flatbush & sterling is decent...they usually have daily specials for pretty cheap. geno's on flatbush/bergen is better, but more expensive. pizza/italian takeout is AWFUL here.

la taqueria has pretty good burritos, i think its directly across from Lemongrass.

Pita Pan is good for falafel/kebabs, 7th ave/1st st

you might be interested in www.chowhound.com; try searching in their "outer boroughs" section.

idlewild · July 2006

if you don't mind cold wings the Wing Wagon on Flatbush between Sterling and Park is good. So is Castillo's down by Flatbush and Carlton. $5-$8 should go far at both places. I'd even look up Mr. Wonton on 7th Ave and Berkeley. They're not gourmet but they're good for what they are.

virtuebk · July 2006

La Taqueria is great. Burritos as big as your head - and tasty, too!

carmen · July 2006

well Lemongrass won since its 30 seconds from my house and holy crap- the food was pretty good (nothing extrordinary) but christ I got like 5 lbs of noodles and salad for $13.00! Im gonna be eating this for three weeks. Thanks, folks!
And I think this thread should continue- I dont imagine im the only broke person in park slope

carnivore · July 2006

Carneviento (El Gran Castillo De Jagua for the n00b5). You can't beat it.

snootyusher · July 2006

Idlewild wrote: if you don't mind cold wings the Wing Wagon on Flatbush between Sterling and Park is good. So is Castillo's down by Flatbush and Carlton. $5-$8 should go far at both places. I'd even look up Mr. Wonton on 7th Ave and Berkeley. They're not gourmet but they're good for what they are.

i forgot about Wing Wagon...they are good for their buffalo chicken pita, love it.

I always pass Castillo and after reading stuff about it on here I want to try it, but for some reason the place is intimidating to me....I think I have no idea what to order. What would you suggest to order at Castillo?

carnivore · July 2006

snootyusher wrote: [quote=Idlewild]if you don't mind cold wings the Wing Wagon on Flatbush between Sterling and Park is good. So is Castillo's down by Flatbush and Carlton. $5-$8 should go far at both places. I'd even look up Mr. Wonton on 7th Ave and Berkeley. They're not gourmet but they're good for what they are.

i forgot about Wing Wagon...they are good for their buffalo chicken pita, love it.

I always pass Castillo and after reading stuff about it on here I want to try it, but for some reason the place is intimidating to me....I think I have no idea what to order. What would you suggest to order at Castillo?
Chuletas (fried pork chops) with beans and rice. Pernil (garlicky roast pork shoulder) with beans and rice. Fried plantains. Rotisserie chicken (1/2 chicken with beans and rice for around $6 is easily 2 meals worth). Any of the sandwiches (cuban, chuleta and fried shrimp are my faves). It's not soup weather now, but their chicken noodle is some serious stick-to-your-ribs shit. And the seafood soup (Sopa de mariscos), which is only available on Fridays is the bomb! Alcapurrias. Papas rellenos...
You can start with those.

Basically, you can't go wrong, especially if pork is involved. Even their burgers are decent (and incredibly cheap).

idlewild · July 2006

snootyusher wrote: [quote=Idlewild]if you don't mind cold wings the Wing Wagon on Flatbush between Sterling and Park is good. So is Castillo's down by Flatbush and Carlton. $5-$8 should go far at both places. I'd even look up Mr. Wonton on 7th Ave and Berkeley. They're not gourmet but they're good for what they are.

i forgot about Wing Wagon...they are good for their buffalo chicken pita, love it.

I always pass Castillo and after reading stuff about it on here I want to try it, but for some reason the place is intimidating to me....I think I have no idea what to order. What would you suggest to order at Castillo?

I like the stuff that's bad for me. Fried chicken rinds, roast pork with alot of skin, beef soup, pork soup, spicy octopus (it's over $8 though), the soupy rice dishes, etc. They're pretty big portions and they give you rice and beans or fries/plantains and salad on the side. They make decent steak sandwiches too.

snootyusher · July 2006

thanks for the Castillo advice...I will probs check it out this week.

anonymous · July 2006

Mr. Wonton Combination Platters: 6 to 7 dollars includes meat, fried rice, egg roll, and choice of soup. It serves me for two meals every week. And its only on the other corner of the block from Lemongrass. La Taqueria serves at least two of my meals a week as well. 7 dollars for a delicious burrito. I moved here (7th at Lincoln) on June 1 and I've almost had the entire menu. It's all good. 8)

yavel · July 2006

I'm not crazy about Castillo. I found their pernil a little flavorless and the flan just so so. I'm still on the lookout for a good latino/carribean place in Brooklyn.

Taqueria is good, although lately I have been going to Clemens on PPW because Taqueria won't deliver to my hood.
Red Hot is my favorite Chinese takeout in the area.
Kiku is good for sushi, but not great if you want to save leftovers.

idlewild · July 2006

Yavel wrote: I'm not crazy about Castillo. I found their pernil a little flavorless and the flan just so so. I'm still on the lookout for a good latino/carribean place in Brooklyn.

Taqueria is good, although lately I have been going to Clemens on PPW because Taqueria won't deliver to my hood.
Red Hot is my favorite Chinese takeout in the area.
Kiku is good for sushi, but not great if you want to save leftovers.

I forget the name of the place, there's a Dominican or Cuban restaurant on Flatbush Avenue bewteen Beverly and Cortelyou that you might want to check out. It has big plate glass windows with tons of fried chicken and pork in the window. Thy're cheap and flavorful When I drove a cab I'd stop by there and get their mondongo soup or blood sausage or said fried chicken and pork. Flavor was not lacking.

carnivore · July 2006

Yavel wrote: Red Hot is my favorite Chinese takeout in the area.

Have you tried Hunan Delight on 6th between President and Union? They're my favorite, although they're not entirely consistant. Whoever they have cooking on Fridays is the best.

jahverson · July 2006

For large portions of decent Chinese my apartment has settled on Empire. It's not the best Chinese, but it's good and we can often get three meals out of one order.

alafairnadia · July 2006

Castillo, especially with takeout, needs finessing. you have to tell them to give you mojo (though they use that goya shit) or lettuce and tomato for the fried shrimp sandwich. I've found that speaking to them in spanish does not help at all, so now I'm just the choosy obnoxious american.

and their pernil may be on the dry side, but it's 100x better than viejos amigos.

carnivore · July 2006

alafairnadia wrote: Castillo, especially with takeout, needs finessing. you have to tell them to give you mojo (though they use that goya shit) or lettuce and tomato for the fried shrimp sandwich. I've found that speaking to them in spanish does not help at all, so now I'm just the choosy obnoxious american.
and their pernil may be on the dry side, but it's 100x better than viejos amigos.

But Viejos Amigos' ribs are better.

alklene1 · July 2006

Carmen -

Check out this link:

http://www.menupages.com/

Look for Park Slope and then sort by $. It doesn't have every menu in town, but it sure has a lot of them. Menus + reviews in one place. Loves me this site :P

linusvanpelt · July 2006

I love Bar B Q at 6th Ave and 20th. They have som esandwiches and stuff for $8 or under, but the real deals are the combos. I think it starts at $13 or something for a 2-item combo for 2 sides. (You choose from brisket, pulled pork, chicken, ribs, sausage, forget what else.) More money than what you're asking -- but you seriously get enough for 3 or 4 meals; they must give you like 1.5 or 2 lbs of meat. And it's really, really good -- genuinely smoky and moist, not just baked in an oven with barbecue sauce ladled on.

brooklynpotter · July 2006

i'm all for clemen's mexican on PPW/17th. huge burritos (as big as your head, to steal a term from flexichick). don't know if they deliver that far north, but the food is amazing. (as is the flan. great flan.)

bay ridge toyota · July 2006

I'll have to try Clemen's again. I know that when they first switched over from whatever (also Mexican) place they were before, I wasn't impressed. I haven't been back, but I trust BP to know a good burrito when she eats one

lshoemaker · July 2006

damn double posts!

brooklynpotter · July 2006

i do the grande burrito with roasted corn and grilled shrimp. and real sour cream (though they do offer non-fat yogurt). the green sauce to the right of the counter is an absolute necessity. that and flan. did i mention the flan?

prusik · July 2006

Yavel wrote: Red Hot is my favorite Chinese takeout in the area.

Check out Noodle on Seven (the other side of 10th Street from Red Hot) - good cheap noodle soups, rice dishes and the only place I've found in PS that has congee. Yum.

Also Rachel's on 5th Avenue - good burritos and my wife loves their shrimp tacos.

carnivore · July 2006

prusik wrote: [quote=Yavel]Red Hot is my favorite Chinese takeout in the area.

Check out Noodle on Seven (the other side of 10th Street from Red Hot) - good cheap noodle soups, rice dishes and the only place I've found in PS that has congee. Yum.

Also Rachel's on 5th Avenue - good burritos and my wife loves their shrimp tacos.
I have to disagree about Noodle on 7. I had really high hopes for that place because their menu looks really ambitious, with some real Cantonese dishes that you don't usually see outside of Chinatown. When I actually got the food though, it was really disappointing. Some of the dim sum type items were almost inedible. And the noodles were bland and overcooked.
I think I prefer well-executed less authentic food to poorly-executed more ambitious fare.

idlewild · July 2006

Idlewild wrote: [quote=Yavel]I'm not crazy about Castillo. I found their pernil a little flavorless and the flan just so so. I'm still on the lookout for a good latino/carribean place in Brooklyn.

Taqueria is good, although lately I have been going to Clemens on PPW because Taqueria won't deliver to my hood.
Red Hot is my favorite Chinese takeout in the area.
Kiku is good for sushi, but not great if you want to save leftovers.

I forget the name of the place, there's a Dominican or Cuban restaurant on Flatbush Avenue bewteen Beverly and Cortelyou that you might want to check out. It has big plate glass windows with tons of fried chicken and pork in the window. Thy're cheap and flavorful When I drove a cab I'd stop by there and get their mondongo soup or blood sausage or said fried chicken and pork. Flavor was not lacking.

Post Script: The place is called La Cabana Rodriguez on 1062 Flatbush Ave by Beverly. It's a fifteen minute bus ride each way (the B41) and for $7.00 you can pick up a pound of fried pork w skin and rice and beans. I just had lunch their and I must say that though a heart clogger the fried pork was very good. Crispy on he outside, moist on the in. The fried chicken is also good and very cheap (ten pieces plus fries for $8.00). It's crispy and not at all greasy and moist inside as well. Check it out.

eggcream · July 2006

Try Uncle Moe's. I love their watsonville buritto.

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