members of the barrio today we're going on a mexican food crawl in sunset park brooklyn we're
eating the classics like tacos tortas gorditas and even something crazy beeria pizza trust me
you don't want to miss this my name is armando and i've lived in southern park for about 18 years now
i don't think new york city gets enough credit for its mexican food scene do you think things are
changing here i mean i feel the same way i don't feel like mexico food gets a lot of recognition
but out here at central park like it's one of the biggest places in new york that has a lot of
mexican or spanish culture in general you went to a store the guy will probably know you from
you coming back it's a neighborhood that still retains its local charm local flavor
this is like sensory overload with all these signs everywhere i love it i love this place already
you know the food is good when you go in the back and you have to order the food you know
exactly you had one or ten yeah yeah
this is mexican coke from mexico this isn't the one that they manufacture in the u.s
and every mexican household when they're about to have dinner or anything like that they always
have a coke on the side your mom will send you to go get a coke you know like oh but
i love it just comes right out of a little hole in the wall two different
types of cheese two different types of meat veggies there's a lot going on just half
of this every torta you gotta have the chilis in there some be spicy so mario
the bread right very crunchy i love how toasted it is
like this is the first thing that i actually noticed like how creamy
cheese was then you have like two different layers of meat this is absolutely delicious
if i didn't know we have more steps i would probably order one for myself
like how does it compare to tortoises you've had in mexico very similar like
saying i would say it's really authentic really good that was buzzing
we filmed two different episodes on the other side of sunset park
in brooklyn's chinatown which is also a really underrated spot i guess people don't
really be exploring so much or yes they're used to staying for what they know right
yeah i was absolutely shocked that nobody has ever made a video about the food of
this side of sunset park remember you were asking me about the tortillas the victim oh yeah
they're warm still that's the way we invite them in mexican mexico warm there's not a lot of places
out here that make the tortillas like like that like a tortilla so you're like let's go to 5 12
let's go to 5 12. i told you i had another name which is called 512
this is the most inconspicuous spot in brooklyn as far as i'm concerned i really want to get inside
at night it gets more it's hopping yeah how late is this place
yeah okay so you have a few beers you pop in here
that's like that's one of the biggest empanadas i've seen in a really long time
there's more avocado than shell there it's ridiculous
yeah they're not cheap with it sometimes you pass out with your friends yo let's go to fight
12. just get a gordita or an empanada you know something to drink and keep keep going on your way
yeah basically it's like if you have a tortilla but it gets a little bit like a balloon so you
cut it in the middle and then you put food inside like a thick tortilla hence the word gordita fat
i'm so crunchy too i'm sorry this is mine you know you realize that oh thank you we live about
four stops from here on the subway so adriana's already planning her return trip in like two days
she'll be here before this video even gets published i think oh my god this looks so good um
i'm never going back to taco bell after this
yeah i don't think you should be going to taco bell
hi oh and you hate these people to come here
no we saw you from atlanta nice to meet you you're talking a lot from atlanta
you'll be funny just like houston or something
uh this ice cream place is actually well known too there
so every tortilla that they use for the dishes they make itself
local spots like this i don't need frills i don't need reservations i just want to pop in here
how did you do that i don't know every mexican i guess knows how to open a beer right you got
some good tricks mexicans can open a bottle with anything thin sliced beef let's do this
and the tortilla is like nice and fluffy right like
like soft this is a real deal right here this this is the real deal and it's connected to a
fruit stand i think you're probably more likely if you didn't know any better to pick up i don't
know a banana or a peach then they get some amazing tacos unless you peeked your head inside
if i had a daughter no i said she had a daughter she'd have her wear this
going to his friend's apartment for the next stop you're going to see how this works this is
this is a first for this channel yeah basically we do a daily menu which is like rotating stuff
we posted up let's say 12-2 it all depends on our prep and then you go on there you dm or text us
and then we just should shoot more stuff normally you're not going to go in the kitchen we're just
going to show you what this looks like this it's easier than going out they just go to instagram
and the menu changes every day it's a daily thing it's not you know i mean it's daily as in like
it's easier for them to think for you like oh this is what we got you wanna instead of being
like what should i get today because uh after covert head ultra was actually my mom my brother
and i stood without a job yeah what else is easier to do you know it's a 21st century way to have a
small business exactly we want to make something different something that you could get at a
bar yeah but from home well you got a whole party to go with this man you got your tacos
halftime get your fighter on quote me on there i actually got it off of
a chinese chef that i used to work with it's basically a chinese style pork belly
i think we're slowly like witnessing at times of changing how you could open up your own business
from home and sell out in just a couple of hours tacos and this is chicharron
was explaining how you know it's pork belly a little asian style i like the flair let's try it
i love the sauce the sauce is always bad good i always ask them to send me like
two or three of these i'm gonna treat your own right mm-hmm some crunchy good flavor
then we got a very alcoholic punch here too we're getting our friday on today man man
that's what you got to do friday's brooklyn i don't need to say much the viewers know i know
i know sometimes the days man nice you're like i'mma just chill on my stew you know then i call
up my guy tell him to bring me some food you're not going to some overpriced cocktail bar if i'm
gonna go to style if i'm gonna go to one of those they have to be on happy hour half an hour only
yeah yeah i'm the same way i hate i don't want to spend 17 bucks at a cocktail yeah that's a lot
yeah i rather go when it's like eight dollars a margarita ten dollars you know brother hang
out here on the stoop right yeah that's where the action is huh get some tequila some mascara
at this stage of my life this is my friday night in one bottle i
got that that's it that's all i got all i can handle right now
our ultimate goal was to bring something new and funky to our neighborhood this
is where we grew up this is you know where we spend most of our time how'd you come up with
this very pizza idea i think it's amazing one customer came in and he asked us hey um
do you guys have he said he had a large party he said hey dude do you mind doing it in a pizza form
we took a picture of it we posted it on instagram and everybody just started and
it took off from there yeah everybody just started asking for it gentlemen i present to
you the favorite thing in the world adriana and i order from our apartment birya pizza beef inside
shredded cheese onion cilantro it doesn't have tomato sauce or any other major attributes of
pizza outside of the shape we're going to pop your birya pizza cherry you ready gonna dip this in
it's taking a little bath oh yeah look at that i never really had one of these
let's do it let's do it
yeah that right there right speechless
i'm speechless yeah that was good because you're dipping the meat in its own juices yeah pizza is
a true guilty pleasure food you've had a rough week it's friday night order yourself a bearded
pizza no matter how bad your problems are there's nothing that iberia pizza
couldn't do to solve it because there's some people that will be more comfortable here and
the food here is amazing by the way but it's also really stylized like this it's really i mean the
perfect words like instagramable yeah versus the spots there were more holes in the wall but they
felt more local and authentic you could really find like whatever you want this neighborhood
i'm just gonna probably go home and sleep not it's friday gotta get gotta get it going gotta
get it going on friday my old ass going to sleep guys hope you enjoyed this video tell us in the
comments which spot you want to visit most thank you so much for watching as always until next time