Just Not Feeling Any German Food...

Last week Mr. Broad, myself, my Brother and Cousin got to see a private screening of Defiance. And the author spoke to us afterwards. Cause we are ohso in the know. And Jewish.

After the bawling fest followed by a speaker series followed by more inspirational talk and some sidenotes (Daniel Craig is SUCH a hot Jew! I want to name my first born Tuvia!)...it was time to eat.

Mr. Broad and I, with cousin walked around the area to figure out what we were in the mood for. Going a little outside of Mr. Broad's comfort zone we did not have any Zagat guide or NY Times review with us. We went totally by the fly. Living on the edge I say!

La Palapa
359 Sixth Avenue (other locations)

After a little bit of a stroll ("I coulda sworn it was on this street") and a phone call to a restaurant we went for Mexican in Greenwich Village. Because nothing says Sunday night Mexican like $10 pitchers of sangria! Ole!
They serve the typical spicy sauces on the table and then we waited.
Umm.
Do we get chips with that?
$2 extra.
Right. Because everyone is going through hard times. Oh but nice move La Palapa.
Putting the sauces in front of us with no chips.
1 Point: La Palapa
ARG

PLATANOS CON CREMA sweet fried plantains with crema and homemade queso fresco

We ordered plantains because I'm a sucker for plantains. It's kinda like bananas. So they are GOOD for you. Right?? Wrong.

Add on some sour cream like dipping sauce. Yum.

TAMAL DE RAJAS CON QUESO COTIJA AÑEJO y PIPIÁN VERDE corn masa baked with chile poblano, sweet onion, mexican cheese and toasted green pumpkin seed and tomatillo pipián

Mr. Broad got these next two dishes. The pumpkin pumpkin seeds made the tamale unique over a tasty green sauce.

AL PASTOR de PORK Tacos

Also ordered by Mr. Broad, this was actually a lot smaller than the zoomed in picture depics. While the tacos were good he proclaimed, it was $5 a taco. And it's smaller than depicted. And Mr. Broad known to eat his fair share of street meat thought the ones in Jackson Heights were better.

ENCHILADAS DE POLLO VERDES chicken enchiladas in a tomatillo green sauce with homemade queso fresco, mexican crema and sweet vidalia onion

HOT! Spicy! GAAAH!! Must Cool Down Mouth! More Sangria!

My cousin and I ordered this and it was great. Very spicy taste with the tomatillo sauce overpowering the and I was told the leftovers worked very well for Mr. Broad the next day.

Review:
La Palapa is a great place for a Mexican meal. We were all turned off by the $2 chips and putting the salsas in front of us for us to stare at. Really? But yeah, we still fell for it. Overall, the meal was good, I imagine there would be a wait here normally if we didn't go on a Sunday night. Prices were okaay for a dinner in NYC although I imagine the $10 pitcher of Sangria is really just a Sunday night thing. The service was "okay"- nothing special but considering it was a Sunday night with not many people there... HELLO?! We would like to order!? Regardless after a powerful movie like Defiance we could have eaten anywhere and been happy.
Rating: 7

Where are the chips?