Beata Delicatessen

I came here because they have iced coffee for $ 1.50. That’s cheap as hell… though not as tasty as some of the more expensive place, but still decent.
Funny thing about Unilocal in Greenpoint. Places like Beata that’s been around for 25 years gets less than a handful of reviews whereas places like Papacitos, that’s only been around for a few years, gets over 300.
Unilocalers aren’t really getting the insight into what Greenpoint used to be… a nice ethnic neighborhood full of Polish culture, food, bakeries, delicatessens and meat markets. These guys have been here for decades… patronize them and keep the polish culture alive.

This place is awesome. I live more or less on top of it. Basically it’s a deli/​bodega but they’ve got piles of mysterious Polish stuff like sausages, pickled things, peirogies, cheap beer, and weird deserts but they also make a really mean and really really inexpensive sandwich. I got the proscuitto and sun dried tomato sandwich they have advertised on the front window for $ 4.99 and they slathered it with delicious oil and some fresh mozzaralla. Also, unlike most delis they actually had a really good multi grain roll to build the sammy on. Finally their bagel and coffee special is like $ 1.50 and they tend to have better bagels later in the day that the poorly named Bagel on the Run down the road which is always out of bagels after like 10am.