Breaking: El Rey Del Sabor Adds a Second Cart on 49th Street
If you were bummed out about the Pinche Taqueria news from earlier today, this should immediately cheer you up: There were a lot of comments and emails yesterday asking what happened to the El Rey del Sabor cart (on 60th & 3rd). Apparently they were missing from their usual spot yesterday because they were… wait for it… wait for it… setting up a second cart on 49th & 3rd!!! That’s right- El Rey del Sabor now has a second cart on 49th Street and 3rd Ave. So if you’ve been meaning to try what I think is the best Mexican food in Midtown, but couldn’t make it all the way up to 60th street and back to work in an hour, now you have no excuse. And for those who were missing the original cart yesterday, fear not- it will be back in its normal spot today.
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Posted: 11:17 am, April 8th, 2009 under 49th btw. Lex+3rd, Cart, El Rey Del Sabor, Mexican.
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36 Comments
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Ay Caramba! Great news.
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What?! I wanted to get this stuff the past few days and I was having a hard time picking something today… what time will they be there? I now know what I’m getting for lunch.
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…YES.
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that’s the best news I’ve heard all year
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Can you get any viable vegetarian options from them ?
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Woohoo! I could just make it over and back from 60th street, but this is MUCH more convenient.
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Fuck yeah! They can now expect my business about once a week.
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Yayayay!
el rey del sabor is cart heaven–I’m goign to have to hit it up today to celebrate
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THIS IS DELICIOUS! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
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Just got back from the cart….
Apparently, while the 49th and 3rd cart is still open, they had issues yesterday because of the halal cart on the same block. He was pretty upset… shame…
Well.. the food is still awesome
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Just got back from the cart. It is where the Japanese Teriyaki/Udon cart used to be (where did it go?).
They ran out of Sopes pretty quickly and they don’t have any prices listed (for first-timers out there).
But otherwise DELICIOSO.
PS – East-sider: What halal cart are you referring to on 49th/3rd that they disputed with yesterday? The closest one I saw was XPL on 48th/3rd.
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I went to the 60th street cart today. The reason they weren’t there yesterday is that they got in a big rumble with the halal guy near the new cart they are opening (49th and 3rd). The guy threw their food around and generally tried to intimidate them so they wouldn’t open near him. Luckily our friends stood their ground and threatened to kick the guy’s ass.
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@Waiting for BajaFresh: I’m not sure. I went to the 60th and 3rd cart today. I’m like smack in the middle of both. In any case, apparently the guy told me that he had to go “take care of business” at the 49th and 3rd location because some of the halal cart guys were threatening his workers/family that were at that location. Seemed pretty intense… not sure which cart it was though.
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Just ate from there. Great Food and Location. Unfortunately we’re now forced to be careful inline under threat from the traditional Halal suicide bomb.
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WTF!?! Do I need to go down there and kick some Halal butt?? Don’t mess with my peoples!!!
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Ah cmon, we need some westside lovin.
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I hiked up to the spot on 60th & 3rd and wasn’t impressed – it was just meh. $5.50 for a salmon taco and beef taco – salmon was very average and the beef was sub-standard, too chewy. They didn’t have lengua which was a big bummer. Tehuitzingo on 10th ave is maginally better, but for the best I’ve had in the city you have to head way out of bounds to Super Tacos on 96th and Broadway. I’m waiting for Baja Fresh!
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had a couple spicy pork tacos for lunch.. not impressed. Pork was dry and chewy, but slathered in enough spicy red sauce (not salsa) that it was hard to tell. But, what do you expect for 2 bucks.
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between that and the new baja fresh we are now covered in mexican food over on the east side.
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Just had the Mole Enchiladas at the new cart and everything was pretty bland. The mole sauce was way too watery and the rice tasted like cardboard. Thank god for Sophie’s right across the street, I had the midtown lunch sandwich yesterday and it’s still just as delicious as day one. Maybe if Sabor threw some of Sophie’s green sauce on their food it would help (but probably not enough)…
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I’m a big fan of the baja chicken burrito at Baja Fresh, but if you go expecting some sort of authentic Mexican food savior of Midtown East- you may end up very disappointed… (just a friendly warning)
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win – I totally agree and I go once a week – don’t sleep on the quesadilla’s there.
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Wonderful news… I feel somewhat vindicated having gone all the way up to 60th steet yesterday to find “nada” (there’s some spanish-flava for ya!). My co-worker and I had to quckly sub with overpriced but tasty Flip burger. Now this new cart is right near our office… it must be the Miracle of Passover!! Wait.. do we have such a thing?!? Guess I better order the tacos with the spicy pork to get my head straight. :> yum!
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@win – Don’t hate on Tehuitzingo, they’re pretty damn good. Their only taco that isn’t is the goat.
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@BenBen I get vegetarian tacos and huaraches from them. There’s one dude who doesn’t know how to make them right, and tries to give you, like, a pile of lettuce and radishes, but usually they’re really good. Beans, lots of guac, cheese, pico… I tried cheese enchiladas too, but they weren’t worth it.
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I had a chicken burrito… I asked for a spicy pork one… w/ mole, but they forgot… Despite it not being what I ordered… It was still pretty good… They’re just starting so give them a week or so, I’m sure it will be running well.
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For the veggies, you might want to try asking for quesadilla with beans, sour cream, guac, and salsa. Can’t go wrong there.
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@Tom – I don’t hate Tehuitzingo. I was just very underwhelmed considering all the hype and raves about the joint. I got 3 tacos for over $9 (2 of them had to be the same type which was annoying) when I can get 4 different types of tastier tacos at Super Tacos for just $8 bucks..
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@win – Are you sure you are talking about the right place? Tehuitzingo tacos are all under $2.50 and I’ve always ordered 3 different kind of tacos (nothing about ordering 2 of the same kind…)
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el rey’s menu is a bit too big. kind of gives me that hit-or-miss feel. i like their quesadillas a lot but they’ve gone up from $4 since the last time i went.
anyone confirm that this place has white fish tacos? i don’t mind salmon but i’m looking for something fried. :X
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I was conned. Big time. They ripped me $6 for a quesadilla. It was $4 on opening day up on 60th street. And then a couple of weeks after that it was $4.50. Now they move a little bit south and suddenly it’s $6? Is it $6 all around? That’s no longer a deal…
And she almost charged me $2 for a bottle of water. When the bill came out to $8 I was shocked and asked “wait how much is this water?” and she said “OH you only want one bottle? Ok it’s $1.” Shady much?
Sorry for the socratic rhetorical question bombing.
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is this cart still there?
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Yup… walked by it on Friday
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quesadillas started at $5 and the were raised a dollar more
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the tacos were alright…a bit bland
those papallillos or w/e were hella good though…i guess you can call them an empanada…the chicken one was great.
Any idea how late they are around? I’d like to try it, but can’t get over there during usual lunch hours …
Anyone successfully hit up the 60th street location more toward dinner time?