During our research for the World Cup challenge, we noticed that it was actually a little difficult to find a casual Brazilian spot. Most of them weren't really a place we could stop for a quick snack or a casual lunch, but would have been more of a full meal with entrees over $15. Thankfully we were able to find one - New York Pão de Queijo in Astoria - which seemed like it had been around for quite a few years. We were really excited to visit them as we like pão de queijo a lot. We've mostly had small sized ones, like the Brazi Bites ones, which were cheesy and easy to eat.
We got our cheesy rolls to go since we were running short on time. They gave us the option of a big cheese roll for $2, or 7 small rolls for $3. We decided to get one large roll each. They were about the size of your palm.
This was a solid block of cheese wrapped in dough before being baked. It was, in all sense of the word, a gut bomb. After our mini-crawl throughout the day, I'm not sure how A actually finished his whole one as we went to the train. I could only finish half during our food crawl, and saved the rest for a late night snack.
We had hoped to get more than pão de queijo when we were originally looking at our World Cup options, so we would definitely go back and see what this hamburger and snack joint is all about. It looked like the type of casual "cheap eats" place that we really enjoy, and the pão de queijo was so good.
New York Pão de Queijo is located at 3190 30th Street in Astoria, Queens.
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