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Chop Chop
Rating Details »
- Nearest Transit:
-
Bergen St (F, G)
Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts (A, C, G)
Hoyt St (2, 3)
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Price Range:
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$$
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- None
11 reviews for Chop Chop
I like Chop Chop for lunch or to pick up a cold 6 pack of hipster beer after work.
The prices are alright and the food is fresh and yummy.
If you are ever in the mood for an overindulgent $13 salad (as I sometimes am) you can do that here and it will be worth your money. You can also make a super yummy $7 salad. Whichever.
I've tried three salads from Chop-chop, and each one got worse. How hard is it to mess up a salad? Don't buy the salads.
Overall everything is overpriced. I bought a Ginger ale, that I thought would cost $1.50, I got billed $3.04! I had three single dollars and a $20 in my wallet ( no change), and the cashier insisted on breaking my $20. So don't expect any courtesy even when buying an overpriced item.
Don't do it!!! The boyfriend and I ordered 2 sandwiches and they somehow managed to completely messed up our orders. 2 tasteless sandwiches, which were nothing close to what we actually ordered, cost us 18 dollars..... think twice
This place could be so much better! I've gone in randomly and if I'm lucky, they'll have ready-to-go food on the shelf. I got a super great chicken salad wrap! But usually the shelves are half empty! I'd give this place 4 starts if I could get wraps to go everyday.
But they get 3 stars for a their salad bar.
this place gets a review because i found my pancake mix here.. this is the pancake mix people think i made from scratch by the way... stonewall kitchen farmhouse pancake mix (SO generic yet with a little dash of something cinnamonny it's your secret grandma's recipe.. not that my grandma ever made pancake now that i think of it...hmm) anyway, small and cute.. chop chop is easy access!
i loves it
Organic crap is really nice if it's served hot and fresh. Luke-warm old-tasting food is a sad exercise in futility, organic or not.
It's too bad, because this place has the potential to get their act together and serve some gourmet sandwiches. But sandwiches need some soul, and whatever soul is left in Chop Chop is buried under the over priced mashed potatoes.
I'm not sure that this is something to brag about, but I know how to eat cheap in Cobble Hill. (Hey, it's a talent!) Anyway, Chop Chop's lunch special blows pretty much everyone else away. On weekdays, for $6.50, you get a pasta dish (think penne with fresh mozzarella and eggplant or lasagna) and two sides (I like the spinach with garlic and the green beans with peppers). They aren't stingy with the portions, and everything tastes really fresh. If pasta's too heavy for lunch, an extra dollar will get you meat (fried chicken or grilled flank steak are there a lot) or for $8.50, you can have fish. I'm pretty sure this lasts till 5, so I guess it could even work as an early dinner. And for a cheap but filling meal, go for one of their $2.50 quesadillas with either guac or salsa. I've probably consumed about 50,000 by now and haven't been disappointed yet. If you're extra hungry, cough up for the Red Hot Blue tortilla chips and peach/mango salsa. Hell, just buy 'em anyway. Delicious!
Sure, the variety is lacking and the salad bar is entirely overpriced, but I'll give Chop Chop 4 stars (even though it may only deserve 3.5) because let's be honest: I'm lazy, and it's provided me with many a last minute and tasty meal.
Mashed Potatoes and Brillo???
Chop Chop is a new-ish gourmet grocery and deli. It is clean and has a nice selection of overpriced gourmet groceries and a great looking deli case.
I recently picked up dinner from the deli:
Buttermilk Fried Chicken
Yukon Gold Mashed Potatoes
Roasted Artichokes
I got home and started eating and was pretty impressed with the flavor and freshness. I was on my fourth bite of the mashed potatoes when I felt something SCRATCHY in my mouth. It had sharp edges. Mashed potatoes are not supposed to have sharp edges.
I spit out this bit and was horrified to see a 4-inch piece of wavy steel wire...the kind that Brillo pads are made from.
I took my dinner back to the store and they did refund my money but I was a little disgusted when the manager just shrugged and said "these kinds of things happen sometimes...even in 5-star restaurants". Not "we're sorry and we'll try to make sure this never happens again".
So, if you are an adventurous eater by all means, try Chop Chop and see if you find a prize in your meal. It's like cracker jack but much more expensive.
This place is average. The only thing I actually like from this place is their Ginger Beer. One complaint I have is the....Customer Service. It's crap. Ahhh. Every time I go there (sometimes alone, or with my mum), the eyes of the cashier/cooks in the back seem to follow me. I dunno, they're strange. Then, when I pay, the cashiers (different one every time I seem to go), keep staring at me. I don't recommend going to this place religiously, only if they have something you can't find anywhere else.
Yeah, I don't know what happened. Had I written this in January or something, I would have likely given them a 5 star review. Now... meh.
Number one, there appears to be some sort of problem keeping the place staffed. Several employees that I would be greeted cheerfully by on my near-daily visits are no longer there. There are always new people, and they seem to be getting progressively more and more sullen. The GM has been hanging around for the last week and is pushy and kind of condescending to the staff. The manager never seems to do much else than stand outside, sit inside and eat, or gruffly make admonishments to his staff. It kinda sucks.
I mean, all that aside, the products they sell are fantastic, if not hideously overpriced. I cannot be bothered to purchase $6 tortilla chips or $8 guac to go with it, but their selection of bottled teas and waters are quite fine. I have enjoyed their tossed salads, although it remains beyond me how expensive salads in this city can consistently be. I've enjoyed their breakfast sandwiches-- quite good cheddar involved there-- and their paninis are also tasty. I've yet to find a foreign object inside any of the food there, but I shan't hold my breath.
I'm not sure what's going on over there... they recently took out all the fresh fruit display at the front, which was one reason I would go in. I'm still underwhelmed by the people running the place. For the time being, however, the food is still faring pretty well.
Maybe I caught this place on a good day or something, (judging by the other reviews on here), but I have to say that everything I had tasted really fresh, and quality. My whole meal was delish....they made me a mixed plate in a large container of mashed sweet potatoes, broccoli rabe, sea bass, roasted root veggies, and prime rib. (They heated it up in the regular oven....maybe that's the key??) and it was fantastic for about $1-2 more than a meal at Mc Donald's! Could it be that you guys are just used to overprocessed, over-seasoned restaurant fare? Or, I donno, maybe I just got lucky, but I had a really good, healthy meal for really cheap, and walked away feeling pretty smart.
