Inside La Sova — Fresh, Flavorful, Fully In-House! - The Perlowitz Show

Kevin, I'm standing right off Avenue M on East 13 by a hidden gem called Lasova. This is a hidden gem. What people already for months are telling me, you must come out here in Flatbush. People from Borisburg come all the way out here. I don't believe it. >> Is the best. Wow. Wow. >> Hello. Hello. Shalom. Shalom. The best food in Brooklyn grad. There's nothing like it. Come [laughter] here to eat. >> Happy boys being here now. >> Best food. >> Hands down. Yeah. >> Hands down. Best food. >> Best fries. Best fries in the world. >> I feel like I might shook over here. Anyway, Yonathan, here. Give a clip over the mic. Give a clip the mic off your uh silver jacket. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Explain me why. I literally heard from lots and lots of friends. They come all over Bur Park, Williamsburg, all the way out here to this little cute gem. what they call they call it a gem. A hidden gem. Nobody knows about it, but after this video, everybody don't know about it. >> So, you tell let's hear a little about this place. >> Okay. So, uh we have a a weekday menu. We're open Sunday through Friday. Um we do we have a little bit of everything on the menu. You can order 20 different people and everyone can find something they like. We have Mexican, we have Chinese, we have burritos, wraps, burgers, sandwiches, rice bowls, tacos. Cholin. On Thursday nights and Fridays we have two different types of chonish kishka overnight kougal. You name it we got it. We also do maza which is like you know and panadas and laajin. We make everything in house. Everything is made handmade. The fries we make inhouse. Um all of our sauces are inhouse. The pickles that we put in our sandwiches are made here at Lassova. >> Really? You ferment it here? >> We ferment it here. We make spicy jalapenos. We make sweet and spicy pickles. We also make all different types of dips and salads for shabas. Everything's made in house. Wow. Okay. And besides for uh our regular menu and our maza and dips menu, we also do uh platters and packages, we do we have a full catering menu for any type of simka or any type of office party or a shiva call, whatever it is. We do it all. 9 by13s, platters, full trays. We do it all. >> Can I just ask you a personal question? >> Sure. Sure. >> I see this. It's count's a small place over here. About uh what do you say about 30 square ft here? Maybe 20 20 ft. It's a little small. >> It's pretty small over here. About six people go in here and it's packed. >> Uh yeah, a little more, but yeah, 10 12 people. >> What was the catchment? >> Um so originally we were going to be fully takeout. Uh we actually had three takeout fridges where the tables and chairs are now. And we used to make Shabas food and salads and dips and and you name it, we made everything in house. And when we just opened, people didn't know who we are. We're on the side street. So like the people were coming in were blown away. They would buy the food, but we were getting, you know, wasting too much food every week. And people, the ones who were coming in, kept asking, "We need seating. Why is there no seating? Like, I want to bring people here. I want to share the food." Whatever. >> Say they want, they demanded seating. >> They demanded seating. So, we got rid of all of the takeout fridges and we put the tables. And ever since then, it's been just, you know, >> come packed. >> You come in here, it's packed. And And the people were we're fivestar rated on Google. We have almost 850 reviews. We're open. >> 850 reviews. >> 850 reviews. We're only open for a year and a half. >> So we have the highest also we have tarniple, we have kahila, everything is everything is everything's bet for the if they want to come through. Uh you know uh and just other than that we we're just here to make you happy. We want you to have some good food, some delicious food, some things that you've never tried before that are unique. Um and uh once you come you you won't stop coming. >> I can say that cuz I have a good friend of Yiddi. Yiddi he's here every day. Oh, once you come you can't see. >> We have this guy. This guy's been here with us from the beginning since we opened and he's here every single week. Aliara Galavo on on Thursday to have the rest >> clockwork. How do you enjoy it? >> I'm here on a weekly basis. It's great food, good vibes. >> This is my second time coming today, [laughter] >> man. >> Can't complain. >> Second time coming today was so nice. And there's somebody who lives in Barber who can't make it out here. You guys have >> So, not only are we all on all of the delivery apps, uh, Uber, GrubHub, Door Dash, but we also have online delivery or you can call in and that anything over $40 is free delivery. >> Yes. And if it's under $40, it's also $3 flat flat rate and there's no fees or anything like that. >> It's much cheaper than Uber Eats. >> Much cheaper. Yes. Much cheaper. >> Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Okay. >> We also So, I forgot to tell you, we actually have a lunch menu. We just expanded. Everything's $15. You get either a fries and a drink or a drink with your lunch special. There's eight items on the lunch special from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. It's a sick deal. No one has things like this for $15. And they're full portions. They're not smaller portions of their lunch. It's the same portion you get for dinner. You don't you don't care. >> Yeah, you see them somehow. No, >> I grew up in Bar I was born and raised in Bar. I love I love I worked in takeouts from when I was a little kid. And then I opened this place up and uh it has it has a >> I see that. All right. Listen. >> So this is our regular chillin and we also have something called rice chillin. Um people are very big fans of both. Sometimes we have a person who's ate regular cholin their whole life and then we switch them to a rice chillin for the rest of their life. They come here and they only get rice ch. They love it. So so it's really it's a different taste. It's something you never had before. Something really delicious. Please dig in. Try it out. And I'll bring you I'll bring you some of our in-house sweet and spicy pickles to go along with the chud. You ready? Let's go. >> And here's some of our sweet and spicy pickles. This is pickled daikon and cars that we actually put in our bani sandwich. But it's so good. I wanted you guys to try it. >> Okay, you you tell me what you think. The >> food here is legit. >> I think the going to come here just to taste this rice sh. is out of the world. Woof. >> Thank you. There's something about it. I know Israelis. >> So, this is really it originates. It's a it's a chillin that Bkharians eat every shabas. Um, and I I grew up on it. I I never ate it, believe it or not. I'm not a chillin person, but uh I know every other person in the world loves it. So, uh I got the recipe for my mother and for my wife and I perfected it and I decided to implement it and people really fell in love. >> People like it. >> Yes. >> Kevin, you're going to love it. The rice chant over here with the in-house homemade pickles. Woof. Akla. Akla. >> He just had it. >> He just had it. Know what he [laughter] >> All right. Here we have our sesame chicken, which are is one of our most popular items on the menu. Even though we have a vast menu, this happens to be a very, very famous dish of ours. I'm also going to bring you some tacos and you're going to have some appetizers as well. >> Ah, Jonathan, I don't know why I feel like I'm sitting in goula. In gula, I don't know. You know why? Cuz over here, I'll tell you why. Over here, we when we give, we give first of all with a full heart and with a smile always. Our our customer service is number one. You know, you can read it online if you want. Ask anyone who comes here. They they always get treated like royalty. And uh we want you honestly to come out of here full and satisfied. >> Hey guys. Wow. >> Here's some of our appetizers that we have. We have poppers, we have fingers, we have wings, we have homemade fries. I'm going to bring you sauces on the side so you can try a little of all of our sauces that are made here in house. Everything is in house. >> Everything is in house. We have a bunch of dipping sauces. We have two different types of popper sauces. Actually, really five different types of popper sauces. We now are soon going to have sesame chicken poppers. Wow. >> So, they're poppers with sesame chicken sauce. It's a new concept. I don't think anyone really makes it and I think you guys are going to love it. So, give me a second. >> Look at this. Look at this. Jalapino. >> Yes. >> Garlic mayo. You made it. >> Yes. Asha, give them one of each. >> Barbecue sauce. Garlic mayo. >> Sweet chili. >> Okay. And how how can we forget? >> Wow. >> How can we forget some potato kougal and homemade kishka? >> The good old potato kougal and kishka. You don't forget about that. >> Yes, sir. >> Unbelievable. >> You have some wing sauce. You have classic popper sauce. You have honey, Sriracha, papa sauce. Try them all. You tell me what you think. >> Kevin, this is your number one stop shushi or lev or leushi. >> Any night any night and you're having a great time and you're going to come out full and you're going to be happy too. >> Kazak. Wow. >> And let's not forget some of our most popular tacos from our Mexican menu. Uh they are all delicious. This is the shredded beef taco. This is our chicken tacos. And this is our seasoned ground beef tacos. >> Yonathan, I'm telling you, this is just beyond. Look at look at look look what's going on. I'm telling you that there's sesame chicken over here. >> And this is not even I think this is 10% of our menu. 10% not enough room on the table. >> We have we have a lot of other stuff on the menu. >> By the way, your homemade um dips over here. Your homemade sauces are out of the world. >> Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. I appreciate we put a lot of uh our our saying here is savor the flavor number one, but it's also love is the main ingredient. Mom is I'm telling you, you can't cook like this without putting love in. You know, I think that's you should keep your store like this cozy small because it's something to it. There's something to it. It's cozy. It's it's, you know, a charm. >> Charm your new everything. Wow. Wow. >> Unbelievable. Then I tasted a couple of the sesame shings here. Woof. Really out of the world. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Really out of the world. No sadic. What do you say? [laughter] Yonatan. Yonatan. What should I tell you? I've been around the corner. I've this is my business. I've been out there. This is a hidden gem in Flatbush. It's wanted to come from Monty and Lakewood. Mark my words. What is the POS promotion today? >> So the promotion is you mention Pearlo with the status. You get a free Belgian fries on the house. We make our Belgian fries here inhouse. It's a $7 value and it's probably one of the best fries you can ever have. >> Nice in-house fries. Kevin, come out here. The address is >> The address is 1301 East 13s between Avenue, M and Elm Avenue, right off of M. Our phone number is 7186769005. You can place orders for the delivery on uh over the phone. Also, you can go on our website www.lenova.com lassova.com and you can also place orders over there for delivery and you get your food fast and delicious. Lasova C. We came back for dessert, man. Yi, we were hungry. We came back for dessert. And [laughter] now we have Amn serving us dessert. Amnown, what do we got for dessert? >> All right, so here we got our uh smash burgers. >> Smash burgers. >> Smash burger. Yeah. Our uh lettuce, our special blend of uh beef. We make our own >> homemade sweet and spicy pickle chips, caramelized onions, brios buns, freshly toasted. Here we got our burrito from our Mexican section. >> We have seasoned ground beef, black beans, cilantro, lime rice, mango pico deayo, and guacamole. Guacamole guacamole wrapped in a in a toasted tortilla. >> Our hand cut homemade French fries. >> You guys make your own fries like we >> make our own fries, our own seasoning. We don't play games over here. >> We don't play games. >> For a real dessert to uh clean the pallet, we have our number one seller sesame chicken uh with uh white rice. We also offer with fried rice, but I know you guys are trying to watch your figures, so we give you white rice. >> Ready for dessert? Dessert is enjoy, guys. Look at this. Look at this. Look at this. Wow. Edi, you going to take the sandwich? The the cheese. Cheese. The mac and cheese. >> And let me get you some sauces to uh >> No, no, you you take the cheese. I think this place is the place to go. We have night, man. >> This is mus. Oh, mazo >> mazo with >> the sauces. >> We have a homemade lemon crema goes nicely with the uh burrito jalapeno if you want a little kick. >> Amen. >> [music]