members of the barrio today we're going to be eating our way through the lower east side of
manhattan we're going to be showing you some of the best cheap eats in the area with somebody
born and raised here you don't want to miss it the lower east side can be very expensive but today
we're going to show you the best cheap eats before el cover one expanded it was just
the kitchen it was just a to-go spot you went to the window said what you
wanted and you got the tacos and you left the food's so good and the tacos
are great the burritos are great that they expanded their business
kid you not three four years ago you could barely find birya anywhere in new york city
now almost every single mexican place it seems offering it most important part gotta dip
the taco in the consomme so you're basically dipping it in its own juices let's try this
that's really good and they give you a lot of berries too
it's like 13 for three of these this is stuffed pretty nicely wow
oh my god this is like de-stressing me right now i had a stressful day in the office and this is
what de-stresses me berry is a beautiful thing i don't know where it came from i do know we came
from mexico i don't know who invented it whoever invented it i want to shake your hand and take
it out for a dinner they uh underestimate the taco game in new york city but i'm gonna tell
you what it's improving i still think the best tacos i've ever had in the us were in la but i
think new york is stepping it up give new york another five or ten years and we'll see where it
stands up against la and the taco game i have an idea what they should do
they should make a chopped cheese and put the barrier sauce on the chopped cheese
we've covered birya pizza on the channel we're going to do beer chop cheese next it will work
it's getting a little nippy out here when i get some soup i hear they got some good soup here
all right you hear they got good soup what's dude let's do it come on let's go let's go
get it got it right you want the super depo you come to the agua and the lower in the 537.
you're the reason i'm the reason you live in new york really my son
thank you so much i'm speechless i don't know what to say what do you say when someone says that to
you dominicans they make up a huge proportion of population in new york city and i think personally
down here in the lower east side de agua this is the best soup right here dominican chicken
soup is gonna be bone in it typical american chicken soup won't have bone but i'll tell you
when you have the chicken coming off the bone you know it's gonna
be fresh you know it's gonna be good it's november 1st so we're just like
we're inching closer and closer to winter i mean this is practically a meal right here anyway
and we have some toasted bread
i think this is like a texas toast a little garlic
oh man besides my grandmother's soup this
is probably the tastiest soup that i've ever had in my life
and like you said even the chicken with the bones on it's so much more tasteful than uh boneless
chicken but i feel like the broth like i want to know what they put inside the broth because it's
so flavorful like i just like i want to know the ingredients i want my grandmother
to make this for me growing up as a kid there were so many more shops like this
it's just good to have in the neighborhood you know because the prices are going up you know
yesterday's price is not today's price no so prices are going up and you know it's going
to have spots like this where it's affordable new york city is getting expensive especially
neighborhoods yeah now we're on orchard street and growing up like i only knew orchard street
for one thing that one thing was their leather jackets it smelled like leather for this whole
half a mile because they were just leather fabric stores italian suit wear stores they
had but now it's all bars art galleries little small mom and pop shop boutiques
can you still smell the leather from 20 years ago in my mind in my soul i could still smell it
thank you yes two and three thank you thank you so much they started as an inconspicuous little
cart in corona queens only on weekends upgrading to a bigger spot in the lower east side getting
covered by the new york times and then blowing up and being you know one of the most popular
places here that's why i love coming here because not only is it just the food that you're enjoying
it's the back story you know it's the hustle that nobody sees that what goes on behind the
kitchen i was really pumped marco took me here because you don't find tamale spots at every
corner of manhattan check that out right there and they make their own masa which is really
difficult and not common at all in new york city i've had this in mexico plenty of times
it tastes homemade man just fresh soft and i'm actually bringing three of these home
one for adriana and two for her ofrenda for day of the dead which is where you give offerings to
deceased relatives and friends for that alter adriana specifically ask for tamales because her
dead relatives and friends love tamales i love tamales too on a less dark note i really wish
this was in brooklyn because i've been coming here all the time the mole poblano really really good
wow that that hit that hit different that ain't different that's really really good
what's like your most uh signature jimmy yeah the jimmy's now you said you said that like
instantly jimmy yeah yeah yeah question at least ten times a day ten times a smoked ham
the arugula you have the regina's calabrian chili spreader which i think is the difference maker in
the cousin gym just getting more excited with every ingredient i like man i love it i love it
the eagle has landed let's get it it's like your old school deli meets
hipster manhattan some would argue 16 why is this in a cheap beats video because these things are
big you can split them two ways eight dollars each i think it gets a nod for cheap eats now i think
so so listen this is new york city realistically nothing's really that cheap you said you just
went to the doctor and your cholesterol's a little bit hot i have high cholesterol
but it is not stopping me from eating so this video is against your doctor's orders i'm sorry
it's a doctor i hope she's not watching this right now oh man cheers let's try this
hmm and there it is first thing i noticed
was the chili the chili oil that's what makes this sandwich a little bit different for me
exactly i like all the like old school italian sandwich spots like they don't have that chili
spread that's why virginia's it sticks out to me so much that chili spread and it's a crazy
dynamic to the sandwich along with its fresh mozzarella cheese which is amazing i talked
about this in another video we did with mary jane the italian girl and you were explaining
it to people that have never heard of a manhattan special yeah so all it is is espresso with like
with soda it's just espresso soda basically so if you want if you really want to be up in the
morning or at night time any time of the day you drink one of these you'll be climbing up
the wall we're here at champion pizza and it's the most underrated pizza train in new york city
you guys new yorkers we love all cheese look at the cheese cheese everywhere
wait i'm gonna get somewhere over here put a little bit off no you're not ate so much today
sometimes you just have enough stomach left for a point slice let's try it let's try it
that's good man got a beautiful under cabbage right there
look at that that's what you want the first to be like it's not too burnt beautiful what i
like about champion pizza it's got a little sweet flavor to it with a tomato sauce that's different
than every other place and i also love like how thin it is like you could have three slices
and still be you know pretty good you know you can still be not have like the itis
absolute great deal for a dollar fifty this is the cheapest item on the video
i would have never thought a million years i would ever do this but let's get it any idea
what you're doing uh listen i love cheese so i'm making mine with a little extra cheese
i don't think anyone has ever put this much cheese on a pie in history yeah i hope that they don't
get mad at me i put a lot of cheese on here like a ton of cheese here we go yo my first pie i've
ever made look at the cheese we put about four pounds of cheese on it it's crispy it's beating
look at that look at that crispiness to it what do you think you think i did a good job amazing
try my slice tell me what you think big flop a lot of cheese marco lombardi style look at this thing
that's not bad pretty good bro
definitely extra food no we love our cheese that's what i'm saying
yo i didn't say what do you give it i'm gonna give it a seven two seven two i like that bowl
so you ain't got nothing on us let us know in the comments which of these cheap eat
spots you most want to visit thank you so much for watching as always until next time peace