Hey, it's Tim and it's Amy from GoWithLess. Today's video finds us in New York
City. We're here on a cat sit and this video is gonna be a different one from
our other travel videos. In this video, we are visiting ten food halls in the New
York City area. If you don't know what a food hall is...
Remember the food courts when you were a kid that had a Chick-Fil-A and a hotdog
stand or whatever... This is sort of like that on an elevated level. If you
know what a food truck is (like the food trucks that park on the street and serve
this magnificent food turned out of this small kitchen) Sort of like a food
truck meets the food courts that we were used to when we were kids. An amazing
experience. The ones that we visit tend to be very international and very
affordable. We visit them instead of going and sitting down at more expensive
restaurants. We don't want to compromise great food because we're on a budget.
This is the way that we can get great food and stick with our budget. It's food
halls. So, we visited ten of them... There were two criteria that we picked when
choosing our agenda. Number one: The food hall had to have at
least 10 different businesses and I found that by the websites. Why is that?
If it only has five; maybe, one is out of business maybe, one is closed for the day.
Three is lame... We didn't want to go out of our way
for lame. So, we did something that has at least 10 so we had a lot of variety and
options. Number two: It couldn't be like a sole cuisine. There are places that
are just Korean food. In Flushing, Queens there are many that are just Asian food.
That's still too narrow. We like having the entire gamut of the world. So, we
followed those two rules when picking our stops. I hope that you'll stay
tuned today. If travel, if budget travel, if travel hacking, if house-sitting, if
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tuned for our tour of food halls in New York.
Okay, stop Number 1. It's Industry City Food Hall in Brooklyn. It's an outlier in terms of distance.
We did it first. Turns out we got here when everything was closed!
It's probably a lunch place. We got here at 7:00pm on the dot. Everything is shut
down and we are heading out of here - hungry...
Our last trip to New York was in May of 2017 and this building (where we're in
right now) was just getting ready to open. But, it wasn't open yet. It looked like
it was going to be cool. Here It is and it is super cool! We're talking about the
DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn and it has everything. It has Arepas... It has
Emapanadas... It has Saigon Street food it has... (what do we have here)
Vietnamese food... It has Korean food... It has steamed buns... It has Italian
sandwiches (that look like very authentic)... It has Katz's Deli... It has barbecue... It
has a French bakery... It has a lot! This is a definite must visit in
Brooklyn. It is open for dinner. So, that's kind of cool and I see all over the
place. They have these $10 lunch specials. If you come at lunchtime, I'm
guessing maybe Monday through Friday? Just a heads up: you might get a good
deal on a lunch here. I don't know that we're gonna be back for lunch. Because, we
have a lot of people's to visit and I don't know that we're repeating anything.
Six years ago we took a food tour of the Lower East Side and one of the stops was
Katz's Deli. I was a vegetarian back then. So, I just looked at the pastrami and I
didn't eat it. I have been thinking about it ever since...
I have been an omnivore for almost four years and we haven't been back to
Katz's Deli since. So, we are waiting for a big pastrami sandwich. If you don't
know Katz's Deli, it's the big scene in when Harry Met Sally.
This is their only other place (outside of their main location in the Lower East
Side) but we're in the DeKalb Market Hall in Brooklyn for dinner... We're going to
be sharing this sandwich. I can't wait to show it to you. It's going to be gigunda
and amazing
All right, we're starting with pickles (two kinds)
That's a good pickle...
All right, pickle number two
Briny, delicious - this is how you want a pickle
We are sharing one big sandwich. The sandwich was about 25 bucks and it had
two pickles (like two different kinds of pickles) So, that's really nice. I'm going
to try my first pastrami at Katz's for like over ten years
Wow! I put some mustard on it. It has a nice rye. First of all, the bread is fresh...
There's something about a good pastrami and a cure and a saltiness. This is
super delicious. This is worth $25 for a sandwich. This is a worth it splurge!
Grand Central Station is probably going to be on a lot of people's radar if
you are coming to New York City. It's something to see! You definitely to come to
Grand Central Station. There is a food hall that's here in the facility. It's OK...
We had breakfast here and there's lots of interesting restaurants that are in
the space. This isn't your normal mall food court. However, I certainly wouldn't
go out of my way to come to this food hall. But, something to go to if
you happen to be here at Grand Central Station.
So, here we are for breakfast at the Grand Central Station food hall in the
basement of Grand Central (the most glorious building) It turns out that
food halls are actually kind of tricky before breakfast. There's a ton of lunch
and dinner food (not so much for breakfast) So, we did find a place that
serves like steak during the day. But, they do have like an egg and cheese on a
muffin (nothing special at all) However, this is what breakfast at a food hall
looks like...
We are waiting for our lunch at Turnstyle. This is kind of a cool food hall
it's in a subway station. Which doesn't sound so great... But, we've been here before (back in May of 2017) and we loved it.
So, we made sure that we got back here for a stop on this trip. We are having an Arepa from the Arepa Factory and we're
going to show that. We're just waiting for it to come out... We're
gonna show it in just a second. But, they don't have a ton of different stalls
here. But, what they have is very high quality. We are excited to be here and
hopefully we'll have another great experience. So, this is an Arepa that we
had the last time we were in New York (when we came to Turnstyle) It has shredded
beef, black beans, it has a plantain and some amazing
cheese. The last time we had this - I think this was our favorite thing we had
the whole time we were in New York - potentially. Here goes... Let's see what
it tastes like...
Oh, holy smokes! It's as delicious as we remember... That is good.
So, what I have learned is that I want more plantains in my food. The
plantains make that Papallion Arepa so yummy and phenomenal and sweet and
warm. Just great! More plantains please! We are leaving
Turnstyle a little bit hungry. We haven't been
satisfied for lunch. So, we have more food halls to hit though... Okay, we weren't
quite satisfied. So, we went to this place called Chick 'n Cone. It is a
waffle cone with fried chicken in it. We got ours with a tangy mustard sauce. No
forks - this is our utensil. Let's try this out...
Wow! Okay, I like this better than the pappallion which is saying quite a bit. I
can't wait to try it with the waffle cone. But, this is like unbelievably
delicious fried chicken tenders. Which if it's done really well is delicious and
this is fried perfectly with the mustard sauce. This is great. It's nice and hot, fresh
I'm loving this. I don't want to share with Tim. This is divine. This is
Delicious. I'm gonna have to come up with new words...
But, umm, umm, umm - good chicken! So, this place was called Chick 'n Cone and the fried
chicken actually came in this waffle cone. I don't know that the two together
necessarily made it like chicken and waffles (like you would think of chicken
and waffles) However, on its own is pretty delicious. Overall, this was a huge win.
Here's to Chick 'n Cone!
We're at Gansevoort Market in Chelsea. This looks amazing. There are more than ten
stands here. We wish we could have a meal here. But, unfortunately we're too full .
It looks very cool here...
We're still here at Gansevoort Market. We couldn't pass up this warm chocolate
chip cookie at this place called the Big Chip. Is that what it's called Amy? Just
Chip... Okay, the Chip. Look at it! It's
gooey, it's amazing. I think I need to go get a milk. You do need milk
This is the last bite of this cookie. we had. This was a worth it splurge. It
was three dollars and fifty cents for this one cookie. But, man was it good
ooey, gooey, sticks to the roof of your mouth delicious
We're at the North 3rd Street Market here in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We
walked 3.1 miles to get here (per Google Maps) and we're waiting for a Lao
dish. We've never had Lao food before. So, very interested to see what this is
gonna be like. It's a rice based dish. I bet it's gonna be good.
We're here at 1 o'clock on a Friday and the market seems a little dead. There
aren't a lot of people here. That's unusual for most of the food halls that
we visited. We just got our Lao food. It looks a little strange. We're gonna
see what we think of the food.
It looks a little funky and it also smells a little funky. So, I'm going in
first and I'm gonna be brave.
so let's see...
We waited for 10 minutes to have it cooked and the rice is lukewarm. I don't
know if it's meat but it's cold. I think it supposed to be cold...
It's extremely salty. It has these crunchies in it which are kinda nice.
This is definitely a different flavor that I'm not used to. I don't know what I
expected. This wasn't it. Food halls are wonderful because you can try all kinds
of new things. This costs... How much was this Tim? Twelve bucks... Twelve dollars So, you
can have a very different experience for $12. If it isn't something for you, at least
you got to try something new for $12. How often can you say that? So, we're gonna get
to letting Tim try this now and see what he thinks
Alright, it's my turn...
I like that. I like it quite a bit... It's just different. Like Amy said
the meat is cold and the rice is a little lukewarm. It has these nice crunchy... onion-y
fried onions (I believe) in there. There's coconut... It's actually quite nice. But,
I don't want to come out of my way to get this... But, it's definitely different... There's also some spice in there...
All food halls aren't created equally. I had read that the Williamsburg Whole
Foods Market had a killer food hall (of outside vendors) and we went. We have no
problem with Whole Foods but it isn't something that we're gonna call a
traditional food hall. We are not gonna put it on our list. We went in plannning to
eat a little bite at a food hall kind of market. We didn't see that... So, off we
go to the next stop
We're at Urban Space 570 at the corner of 51st Street and Lexington Avenue in
Manhattan. There are two spots (Urban Spaces) one is on Vanderbilt. We're gonna
check that out next. And, we are kind of slowing down a little bit... We haven't
even eaten that much today. So, we just got an empanada. A corn empanada with
some cotija cheese. I think it is cotija cheese. I don't know how to say it. But,
there looks to be some corn and cheese and jalapeno. We love a good empanada.
Umm, that's surprisingly good. It's really warm. We just had it under the heat
lamp. So, I wasn't expecting much. It's nice and gooey cheese and the corn is
very sweet.
We are at Urban Space Vanderbilt. A cousin to the place we just visited.
which was Urban Space 570. Here's Urban Space Vanderbilt. We're here in the
middle of the afternoon on a Friday. It's pretty lively. There are a whole
bunch of really good-looking stalls but we aren't hungry for savory food. We're
going to have a little detour and get some dessert. I have a huge sweet
tooth. Tim really doesn't and he picked our dessert. I don't know how I feel
about that... But, it is a donut from Dough and it's a cheesecake donut. While Tim
is not a big dessert person, he is a big cheesecake person. Let's see how we
like our donut that we're sharing... It's huge!
Wow, that's a big giant donut.
I don't need savory food anymore. Oh man! How much was this Tim? $3.75. $3.75 - this is a
good deal for $3.75. Obviously, it's enough to feed two people.
This is a big one... There's like this graham cracker crumbs on top with like a
cheesecake layer on top on top of like a yeasty yummy donut. Oh, this is a keeper
If Tim doesn't stop recording soon I'm gonna eat his...
I love me some cheesecake! This is a donut (whoop)
combined with cheesecake. How amazing is that? And, it is delicious! I've already
had a bite (or two)
Oh, DONUT!
No more donut... I want another one!
We're at Num Pang in the Chelsea Market for our five-spice pork belly sandwich.
With cilantro and carrots and cucumber... We have been waiting for this for about
a year and a half. I got a bite that is totally fat.... Which is good, but it is
totally fat. I'm excited to get some meat in here. But, every bite on this
sandwich is totally different.
We're still in Chelsea Market and we found this great looking Asian noodle
place where they're actually making homemade noodles at the shop. We're
gonna try this out. It looks like it's gonna be delicious. It's a beef brothy soup
It's a beef brothy soup... If you didn't hear Amy there in the background
Okay, this soup is fantastic! It is kind
of chilly out. It's wintery... The beef is so tender
Umm... The noodles... There's something about a fresh noodle. It doesn't taste the same
as noodles out of a package. At all... This is... Oh my goodness, look at this giant
hunk of beef. Tim and I are gonna have to fight for that. This is good
stuff! This is a place that has a really long line. We had a feeling it would
be good and it is!
We're having lunch here at Mighty Quinn's. We got a brisket sandwich
with some selected sauce. We also got burnt-end baked beans and mac 'n cheese.
I'm gonna give the mac 'n cheese a try. We're at Hudson Eats downtown
in the Financial District.
Wow! It's hard to mess up mac 'n cheese... But, this is over the top good
mac 'n cheese! It's got little crunchies in it. I'm not sure if it's onions or bacon
bits or what... But, it is delicious and uber cheesy! Here's a bite of the
brisket. It's a sandwich that we got. But, I'm just gonna try this by itself
That is good brisket. Nice and moist... They added a little bit of salt which
actually adds something nice to it. And, the sauce is also good. This is a good
piece of brisket. Okay, we shared that brisket sandwich and it's on a giant
King's Hawaiian roll. Which I think King's Hawaiian rolls make everything so good.
But, it's a really fresh yummy roll. Maybe, it's not King's? I don't know but, it's a
delicious sweet roll. The brisket isn't that warm but, everything else about it
is really good. The barbecue sauce is thin. It's all over my fingers... I'm
gonna be sticky for the day. That extra salt that Tim mentioned really
does make it. This is a delicious brisket sandwich. I don't think I was
expecting it to be this good. It's really messy. Umm! I think we're debating
getting another one.
Here we are at food hall number 10. We got to number 10! It's the Plaza Food
Hall underneath the Plaza Hotel (at 59th and 5th in Manhattan) This is a really swanky
one. The trouble is - it's extremely hard to find seating here. We got here early
and we were lucky to find two small tables. We have another couple joining us
today. We are getting started with a lobster roll. It's kind of expensive. With
the tip it was $19.50 For something the size of a hot dog bun.
But, even though we are budget travelers I still love me some lobster!
Okay, we got a tartine from Tartinery. We love a good tartine. This one has a
creamy barato spread on it, with some roasted tomatoes, some fresh thyme. It's
just okay... It needs a little something... It needs a little fresh pepper maybe? Some
olive oil? Maybe, a little (I don't know) - a little lemon zest or something like that?
It's good but it we can be better.
We're still here at the Plaza Food Hall. We got some donuts at the Doughnuttery
What is this Amy? It's a cinnamon, sugar fresh doughnut. It's a cinnamon, sugar fresh doughnut from the Doughnuttery.
Warm. Warm? Is it going to be warm? And crunchy... Umm, that's good. A+
Holy cow! We ate like kings in New York City and we didn't spend that much money
doing it. Isn't that incredible? Do you have food halls that
you've tried, that you like, that you can recommend us to? Because we visit
them all over the place. That's our comment request down below for today.
Please, tell us your experience with food halls. Do you have good ones? Is this
something you've never heard of? Put it down below... We'd love to hear that...
We really had some amazing affordable delicious food during this visit.
I apologize for not having a better vocabulary. I'm working on words to
describe things in general. But, food specifically... I love ALL food but, it
really was amazing, it really was delicious, and it really was affordable!
However, -again- my apologies for ... I gotta work on that! Thank you so much
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York City questions, I'm happy to answer those too. Just the fact that this video is
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