The World's Best Junk Food Deal

Three for the weekend, June 20

Chicken in pumpkin seed sauce at El Buen Chapin Deli Corp.

Guatemalan pork and beans

Sadly, the most upscale Guatemalan restaurant the city closed not long ago. Park Slope’s Bistro Quetzalito seemed like a thoroughbred horse that could trot but couldn’t quite gallop; it also tended to devalue its own Guatemalan food in favor of other Latin cuisines. It was very good anyway.

Luckily, its progenitors were the half dozen bodega-cafes of nearby Brooklyn neighborhoods. Just downhill from Sunset Park’s sloping park, El Buen Chapin Deli Corp. appeared seven years ago at 3915 Fifth Avenue on the site of a former flower shop. The ranked Guatemalan and Mexican groceries are still there, but in addition, a few tables are pushed out front and there’s a pristine steam table in the rear, its hot dishes carefully covered to forestall desiccation.

El Buen Chapin lies just northwest of Sunset Park.

The interior retains its identity as a grocery store.