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Le Basket
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Categories: Delis, Coffee & Tea [Edit]
Neighborhoods: NoHo, Greenwich Village683 Broadway
(between 3rd St & 4th St)
New York, NY 10012
(212) 420-9772
- Nearest Transit:
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Uptown Bleecker St-Lafayette St (6)
Downtown Bleecker St-Lafayette St (6, B, D, F, V)
8th St-Broadway (R, W)
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Price Range:
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$
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Good for:
- Lunch
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
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20 reviews for Le Basket
I'm digging this place. I went there for the first time yesterday for breakfast. I was hungry and hadn't bought any food. Boo...!!! I'd seen Le Basket the night before, but walked past it to another place where I had one of the worst salmon entrees ever. I needed something good.
I ordered their breakfast special, which is just two eggs, home fries and toast for $3.00. I asked for a side of bacon too and got an iced coffee. It cost me $6.50 total. It was good. It's not haute cuisine. It's a corner deli merged with a greasy spoon. My breakfast tasted like a quick but traditional American breakfast.
I didn't have anywhere to go, so I sat outdoors, fired up my laptop and enjoyed breakfast while watching the people and the traffic go by. For what I paid, what I got really hit the spot and helped me start off my day right.
It also helped that the folks behind the counter were really nice. I heard someone speak Korean and, since I do too, I got to practice. God knows it's not like I get many chances most of the time.
Anyway, I'll go back, for sure. It's inexpensive and the folks are nice.
I got food poisoning last time I ate here, and have been sick once before from eating here. The first time it was pretty mild, but this go around landed me in the ER and unable to get out of bed for two days. It's a week later and I'm still ill.
I used to eat lunch here fairly regularly, but not now, not ever.
I should have read the restaurant inspection reports, 38 points on the health board's last visit.
Stay away.
A small deli / convenience store at the corner of Great Jones (3rd St.) and Broadway, this place serves some hot food and sandwiches, flowers, and random items for everyday household use.
Convenient, if nothing else, but the prices aren't bad, but the food isn't really that special or good, either.
This place is HORRIBLE. I went there to get dinner at the salad bar. It was supposed to cost 8 dollars but the guy charged my 80$ and then claimed that he didn't know how to erase the credit card charge and that I would need to come back the next day when someone knew how!!! Sounds like a scam to me -- also I have friends who have been similarly screwed at this place. Don't trust them. They'll ripe you off!!!
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On no particularly specific night of the week, I was taken here by a not so particularly specific person. We walked through the pandemonium that is the NoHo neighborhood, swarming with particularly annoying drunk NYUers and came upon Le Basket.
Le Basket sounds particularly romantical. And it is, in a "grab a 40 and a bag of chips, get carded by the drunk man behind the counter, and sweep of the cigarette ash and bread crumbs from the metal tables outside," kind of way.
My non-particularly specific friend and I shared stories of our upbringings and gazed into each other's eyes as we sipped on our magical 40s of Coors Lights. The stars were bright and the moon shun above... my heart fluttered ever-so-slightly and the butterflies tickled me relentlessly...and THEN
I BURPED. And he fell in love.
The End.
Not a particularly bad place to go if you're a broke NYU student, hungery and in a rush or absolutely hammered.
The cheese steaks are mighty cheesy, and only 6 bucks.
The house sandwich is a turkey, bacon and avocado sandwich that is KILLER after about 10 beers.
Breakfast sandwiches come with a free coffee.
10% off for NYU students. Do it do it.
My company ordered lunch delivery from Le Basket, and we were very satisfied. The menu offered a variety of sandwiches, including the ability to build/customize your own. The prices are beyond affordable, with sandwiches ranging from $4.50 to $7.00. My whole wheat wrap was stuffed with tender roasted turkey and fresh tomato. My co-worker raved about the Healthy Avocado Sandwich with fresh chunks of avocado and topped with tomato, muenster cheese, herb vinaigrette, romaine lettuce, and watercress on pumpernickel bread. The delivery was very quick as well.
I would highly recommend Le Basket delivery.
I bought 1 coconut water, small and 1 iced coffee, small TOTAL=$5.00
GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!!!!
BOYCOT THIS PLACE UNTIL THEY BRING THEIR PRICES BACK TO EARTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Le Basket is one of my best friends. Literally.
I get breakfast here every morning before work. The entire morning/day staff is super nice, and they've even gotten to know me, which is a very special feeling. Some time's I'll even make it there for lunch when I'm in the mood, because who can pass up a huge cheeseburger and a plethora of fries for only $5.50?
Le Basket will always have a little place in my heart. I really can't say anything bad about it. Oh, except for the night staff. I don't like the night staff.
Good for a quick bite. Had a tuna sandwich for under $5 which is always good for constantly broke students like me. Hot foods smell good but didn't feel like making the people in the adjoining cubicles jealous with the smell of fried foods. Will be back when i get the munchies.
I've been going to Le Basket on and off since they took over the Pamela's Cafe space a while back. They are a run of the mill NYC "Korean Deli" with your typical salad/hot bar and sandwich counter. The quality of the food is more about convenience versus culinary prowess. Through my experience, breakfast is the strongest offering (it's difficult to mess up breakfast). The day shift girls are nice and friendly, the late shift old guys not so much. They are definitely pricey, but not surprising for the location and convenience (24hrs) Their flowers are also OK as far as deli flowers go. There aren't too many other options in that area.
I do have a beef to pick with them that readers may not sympathize with unless they live right by them. I happen to live so close to Le Basket that I can see the storefront through my living room window. The outdoor seating was a great plus for visiting patrons, but a nightmare for me as a resident. What originally seemed like a cozy outdoor seating area for daytime lunch ended up turning into a rowdy beer garden at night. I'm sure fun for the patrons, but not fun for the residents. Day in and day out there would be large groups of twenty somethings laughing and shouting for hours on end. A few times I had called Le Basket to ask their patrons to keep it down. The night shift guy would grunt, walk outside, look around for 4 seconds, then go back in, not saying a word. That seemed to be his way of asking patrons to keep it down. Le Basket also violated code by keeping the outdoor area open practically 24 hrs a day. By law, uncovered outdoor seating areas are supposed to be closed by midnight on weekdays and 1am on weekends.
As of 9/18/09 I noticed they had packed up their outdoor seating area. I'm not sure if they lost their license or if it's just a temporary situation.
Hooray for le basket! The recipe? Go here, grab a beer, sit on the patio and watch the people stream down Broadway. Instant success! Hot days are the best, just relax, sip the beer, watch the people. Good place for city sketches, if you like that kind of thing. To say it a third time, its the patio and the location and the relaxation (and the beer which is cheaper than sitting on a patio at a pub/cafe/blahbity blah).
If you stay around too long and you get hungry they has food to. Nice foods, reasonable priced and yummy sandwiches - as other have mentioned - and a serve yourself food bar thing.
This place is good, I went last week and had the buffet and all of the food was fresh and delicious. It seems like everything you would need for a good lunch is there, salad bar, hot food, sandwiches, soup etc...
Thank goodness for Le Basket! Last semester, I was booked almost solid from 12pm - 8:30pm three days a week, so dinner was challenging. Luckily, Le Basket had a not-huge-but-big-enough salad bar at prices at least 50 cents cheaper per pound than any other place I've been to in the neighborhood. They also have a big selection of snacks that are slightly more exciting than your typical Hershey's and lays. I've never tried these, but they have a deli counter that serves breakfast sandwiches and some soups. Given everything else they have, I'd guess the food is well priced and pretty tasty.
One time I miscounted my money and was short a dollar. I was about to not buy something I had on the counter, but they told me to just take it and pay them back some time in the future. So nice!
A true gem in the Greenwich Village. My order? Chicken salad on an everything bagel, chips and a Snapple. How NY can ya get? Delish sammich and lightning fast service. If I lived in these parts, I would fo sho be a regular. They also have a tasty, tasty hot/cold salad/food bar I couldn't help eyeing! Grab a table outside and do some people watchin!
Solid little deli/buffet/quickmart to get a sandwich, assorted buffet items (not large but good in a pinch), and cold premade sushi.
Bright, friendly staff and the tables outside are a nice little plus, if a bit dirty you can have all the people watching you want for the 20 minutes or so. I used to go here from class at NYU all the time during breaks and such because although the deli by Waverly and Broadway is good, its expensive, and this place is just cuter.
Good deli, a standby for reasonably priced sandwiches. For the vegetarians out there, they have a small vegetarian sandwich menu, in addition to their non-veggie options. Most sandwiches run around $5, but they're pretty big. (I love their apples and brie cheese sandwich, amazing).
I've never had their salad bar/hot food, but it's cheaper by the pound than Space Market down the street. In fact, it's one of the cheaper salad bars I've found in the area. They also have pre-made sushi, at around $5.
Not much seating inside, but during the summer they have outdoor seating. $5 minimum on credit cards.
Great deli. They have really cheap food without sacrificing the quality. There is a salad bar and they also have premade meals if you are in a rush. There are a few tables outside so you can grab your food inside and have a nice place to sit and eat.
Never tried the sandiwches, but they have (overpriced) beer, patio seating, a bathroom, and those "COLLISIONS!" Doritos, so you can imagine I find myself hanging here often.
I love this deli. The $1.75 egg and cheese on a bagel is a lifesaver. Toasted, tasty, always perfectly done, and super cheap. The hot/cold salad bar is economically friendly and the pasta is pretty good. The assortment of food on the bar is great. Friendly staff (they always remember my order) and good vibe. I like sitting outside in the warmer weather. Two thumbs way up.
