Comments on: Tamales Will Make the Perfect Cinco de Mayo Lunch

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:17:02 +0000

Tamales are good. Chuck you are a wanker.

By: Sirena Nathalie

Sirena Nathalie — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:32:03 +0000

Just visited the Tamale Lady in front to the Embassy and her tamales were okay. The pork were by far the best. Meaty, slightly spicy. The cheese were mostly corn meal and a strange red collor rubbery little rectangle. Nice pepper in the cheese. The chicken were a bit dull but I liked the green verde sauce inside.
Size: 4 star out of 5 stars
Filling:
Pork: 4 star
Chicken: 2 star
Cheese: 1 star
Husks, nicely cut.
Texture: 3 star, warm and not dried out.

Over The Tamale Lady was pleasant to do business with and when you need a tamale fix they are definitely a good stop.
Was a pleasant and nice cultural surprise to find this in front of the Mexican Embassy too.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:05:02 +0000

I went today and in my broken-ass spanish she said she only had meat and chicken, nothing with “just” cheese. Maybe i didnt get through to her.. who knows. I’ll have to find me a spanish speaker to help out next time.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:32:42 +0000

I *still* haven’t had their brunch, but that place makes my world go ’round! Despite it not being BYOB anymore!

By: Mamacita

Mamacita — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:56:05 +0000

Damn, sorry that was me above, I forgot to insert my name and ended up with Sarah’s name still up there.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:29:26 +0000

Sarah, The Chavella’s brunch of eggs, chilaquilles, beans,tortillas and carne asada is pretty damn good. Oh the the sweet bread… yum.

I second going to Las Poblanitas, but not for the tamale, too dry, but for their daily specials on the buffet table.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:42:12 +0000

Ha! 10 pts to whoever wrote this. I think I know who done did, too. Also a gold star to mamacita for her comeback. I’m saving my appetite for tamales for Chavellas in Brooklyn: Delish beyond belief, def out of midtown bounds, but half a block from my couch!

By: MrsDocChuck

MrsDocChuck — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:06:03 +0000

My husband has been very concerned about the safety of America’s food supply. He believes it to be vulnerable to terrorists. And I agree, by the way.

Thus, we have a fully stocked pantry full of canned goods (crab, sausages, chicken, potato salad, etc) as well as an ample air raid shelter in the basement.

My husband (a retired “educator”) subsists on a diet rich in Vienna Sausages! He loves the texture of the soft, silky “Mechanically Separated Chicken.”

I have run into a problem, though, as my husband goes through the Vienna Sausages from the pantry like they were peanuts. I used to make them in the crockpot with grape jelly but now he just spears them straight from the can while he’s surfing the internet. And he has snuck dozens of cans out from the air raid shelter.

Vienna Sausages aren’t very healthy and my husband is older and rather lethargic so I worry about him eating so much fatty food, but canned Vienna Sausages, procvessed hygenically and hermetically sealed are much safer and healthful than “tamales” or the other “foods” sold from filthy carts New Yorkers inexplicably frequent.

By: Rudy McBagel

Rudy McBagel — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:34:32 +0000

Chucky chucky chucky…….you’ve excelled yourself.

You are a wanker, a gobshyte,a twat, a nob cheese.

Also on topic.If we in the UK celebrated every time we beat the french we’d have 107 public holidays a year.

By: missylizzy

missylizzy — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:33:51 +0000

I stopped by the Tamale Lady’s folding table setup at about 2:30pm and she was still there but she was out of tamales.

I hiked up to the Carribean Spice cart on 46th and 6th. Thanks for mentioning the rice + beans were dry. I got the curry goat with extra sauce and it soften up the rice nicely. The small was plenty of food. It wasn’t spicy despite the name but the guys were nice so i’ll go back and try out another dish.